London Swine Conference Proceedings 2006 - Summary

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Individual Articles

• The Global Picture: Forces that Impact on Swine Production - Knud Buhl
• Making Progress through Research - Kees de Lange
• Different Approaches to Handling PRRS - Monte McCaw
• Different Approaches to Handling Circovirus - John Harding
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: Canada - Clare Schlegel
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: North Carolina - Monte McCaw
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: the World - John Gadd

Break Out Sessions

• New thoughts on Nutrition of Newly Weaned Pigs  - John Pluske
• Strategies for Feeding Weaned Pigs  - Bob Goodband
• Hitting the Target on your Grid - John Otten & John Bancroft
• Group Housing Sows - Take-Away-Notes - John Gadd
• Alternative Dry Sow Housing - James Osborne
• New Approaches for Controlling Nursery Diseases ... or Back to Basics - John Harding
• New Approaches to Weaner Room Management - John Pluske
• A Practical Look at Nutritional Attempts to Improve Pork Quality - Bob Goodband
• What Producers can do to improve Meat Quality: The Genetic Approach - Andy Robinson
• How to Hire and Keep Employees - Ken McEwan
• Employee Retention - Keeping the Best - Rob McDougall
• Reproductive Innovations: Control of Sow Estrus and Breeding - Roy Kirkwood
• Reproductive Innovations for Swine Production: Future Impacts of Gender Pre-Selection, Embryo Transfer and Cloning - Mark Wilson
• Managing PRRS in a sow population - Monte McCaw
• Understanding the Spread of PRRS Between Herds - Cate Dewey
• On-Farm Experience with Swine Liquid Feeding - Kees de Lange
• On-Farm Experiences with Liquid Feeding: Grow-Finish Pigs - Leroy Van Ryswyck
• Energy Conservation - Ron MacDonald, Harry Huffman