Banff Pork Seminar 2008 Proceedings
This article lists the presentations given at the 2008 Banff Pork Seminar and provides links to the respective articles.Plenary Sessions
- New Vision for Agriculture - A Source of Solutions
- Reinventing Canadian Agriculture
Ernie Barber - Soaring Food Demand, Biofuels, Organic Farming and the New Vision for Agriculture
Dennis T. Avery
- Reinventing Canadian Agriculture
- Putting the Chill on COOL
- COOL is a Hot Problem
Kevin Grier - USA COOLs Canada
Steve R. Meyer
- COOL is a Hot Problem
- Surviving the Cost-Price Squeeze
- Benchmarking and Cost-Production Relationships
Greg Bilbrey
- Benchmarking and Cost-Production Relationships
Breakout Sessions
- Biogas - Making it Work
- Biology of the Prolific Sow
- 30 pigs/sow/year - Impacts on the Sow
Bernard Peet - Hyper-Prolificacy and Acceptable Post-Natal Development - A Possible Contradiction
George Foxcroft - Management of High Prolificacy in French Herds: Can We Alleviate Side Effects on Piglet Survival?
Sylviane Boulot, Helene Quesnel and Nathalie Quiniou - Nutrient Requirements of Prolific Sows
Ronald O. Ball, R.S. Samuel and S Moehn
- 30 pigs/sow/year - Impacts on the Sow
- Containing the Cost of Energy
- Energy Savings with Heat Pads and Lighting
R.E. Boris - Visual Management and Energy Consumption on Hog Farms
Roland Harder
- Energy Savings with Heat Pads and Lighting
- Containing the Cost of Feed
- Containing Feed Cost Using Biofuel Coproducts
Eduardo Beltranena and Ruurd Zijlstra - Farmer Driven Solution - Developing Wheat for Western Canada
David Rourke - Using Pulses, Canola Meal and Other Strategies to Enhance the Cost-Competitiveness of Swine Diets and Resulting Production Efficiency
Robert J. van Barneveld
- Containing Feed Cost Using Biofuel Coproducts
- Eradication of PRRS
- Canadian PRRS Eradication: A dream or a future reality?
Julie Menard - Regional Eradication of PRRS Virus: A Pilot Project
Bob Morrison, Spencer Wayne, Peter Davies and Scott Dee
- Canadian PRRS Eradication: A dream or a future reality?
- Increasing Success with Foreign Workers
- Attracting and Keeping Immigrant Labour
Mark Chambers - Integration of Immigrant Labour into Workplace and Communities
Silvia Begin and Charlene Ball
- Attracting and Keeping Immigrant Labour
- Integrated Systems Improve Profitability
- PCVAD Vaccine Updates
- PCVAD Vaccine Results in Grower-Finisher Units: Practical Evaluation and Considerations
Francois Cardinal and Brent Jones - Vaccination of Sows and Gilts against PCV2 Diseases: Field Experiences in Europe
F. Joisel, C. Charreyre, L. Coulombe, J.C. Noel and S Longo
- PCVAD Vaccine Results in Grower-Finisher Units: Practical Evaluation and Considerations
- Pig Production and Climate Change
- Carbon Offset Market Opportunities for Pork Producers
Karen Haugen-Kozyra - Climate Change Scenarios for the Prairies
David Sauchyn and Suzan Lapp
- Carbon Offset Market Opportunities for Pork Producers
- Trucking with Tenderness
- A Trucker's Experience - What Works
Rick Peters and Steve Brandt - Better Handling, Better Pork
Jeff Hill - CFIA Trucking Regulations
Nicole D. Cormier and Gordon Doonan - CLT & TQA Working Together
Bill Mullen
- A Trucker's Experience - What Works
- Turning Loose on Sow Housing
- Turning Loose on Sow Housing
Lee Whittington, Franklin Kains, Tony Nicol and Murray Elliot
- Turning Loose on Sow Housing
- Where in the World to Grow Pigs
- Global Growth in Pork Production
Fiona Boal - Where in the World to Grow Pigs? - Trends in U.S. Pork Production
Steve R. Meyer - Will Canada Still Produce Pork?
Kevin Grier
- Global Growth in Pork Production
Abstracts
Best of Current Research- Breeding & Reproduction
- Associations between Birth Weight and Fetal Programming in Commercial Sows
G. Foxcroft, M. Hahn, J. Patterson, S. Sarmento, M. Smit, S. Town and W. Dixon - Effects of Sow Parity and L-arginine (ProgenosTM) Treatment during Early Gestation on Litter Size and Birth Weight
M. Hahn, S. Town, M. Smit, J. Patterson, A. Pasternak, D. Guggenbiller, C. Smits, P. Ramaeker, M. Dyck and G. Foxcroft - Efficacy of a 7 vs 14 day Regu-Mate Protocol in Cyclic Gilts
J. Patterson, N. Williams, G. Spronk and G. Foxcroft - Fertility Markers in Boar Semen
S. Novak, R. O'Donoghue, G. Lebowa, W. Dixon, G. Foxcroft and M. Dyck - Piglet Birth Weight has very Little Impact on Carcass or Pork Quality
A.D. Beaulieu, J.L. Aalhus, I.L. Larsen and J.F. Patience - Synchronization of Ovulation in Cyclic Gilts with Porcine Luteinizing Hormone (pLH)
K.L. Degenstein, R. O'Donoghue, J. Patterson, E. Beltranena, D.J. Ambrose, G.R. Foxcroft and M.K. Dyck - The Effect of Birth Weight on the Growth of Pigs Differs from that of Litter Size
A.D. Beaulieu, P. Leterme and J.F. Patience - The Use of Allometric Relationships to Estimate Gilt Body Weight
J. Pasternak, J. Patterson, A. Cameron, M. Dyck and G. Foxcroft
- Associations between Birth Weight and Fetal Programming in Commercial Sows
- Environmental Management
- Application of Nanoparticles in Reduction of Gas Concentration from Swine Manure
D. A. Asis and B. Z. Predicala - Evaluating the Impact of Selected Management Practices on Odour Emissions from Swine Barns
E.C. Canillas, B.Z. Predicala and L. Whittington - Investigating Ways to Reduce Energy Cost in Swine Barns
E. C. Navia, B. Z. Predicala and J. F. Patience
- Application of Nanoparticles in Reduction of Gas Concentration from Swine Manure
- Nutrient Requirements and Feed Evaluation
- A Surgical Model for the Kinetics and Quantification of Nutrient Absorption in Swine: Its Application in Carbohydrate Metabolism
S. Hooda, J.J. Matte, T. Vasanthan, and R. T. Zijlstra - Dietary Lysine Requirement for Maintenance is 49 mg/kg0.75 in a Population of Modern, High Productivity Sows
R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball - Dietary Net Energy is Affected by Diet Protein Concentration or Gender in Pigs
S. Moehn and Ronald O. Ball - Digestible and Net Energy Content of Diets Supplemented with Full-Fat Canola Seeds in Growing Pigs and Gestating Sows
P. Leterme, P. Kish, A.D. Beaulieu and J.F. Patience - Digestible and Net Energy Content of Field Peas in Gestating Sows
R. Premkumar, A. Samaraweera, A.D. Beaulieu and P. Leterme - Digestible Energy Content of Wheat for Grower Pigs can be Predicted Using an In Vitro Digestibility Procedure
P.R. Regmi, N.S. Ferguson, A. Pharazyn, and R.T. Zijlstra - DL-Methionine is more Bioavailable for Protein Deposition in Growing Pigs than Equimolar Amount of Methionine-hydroxy Analogue
A.K Shoveller, S. Moehn, Meike Rademacher and Ronald O. Ball - Effect of Hulless Barleys Differing in Beta-Glucan Content on the Intestinal Ecology of Weaned Pigs
R. Pieper, R. Jha, A. Van Kessel, B. Rossnagel, W. Souffrant and P. Leterme - Effect of Oats and Hulless Barleys Differing in β-Glucan Content on Digestibility and Intestinal Fermentation Parameters in Weaned Pigs
R. Jha, R. Pieper, B. Rossnagel, A. Van Kessel and P. Leterme - Energy Metabolism and Leucine Oxidation in Early and Late Lactation in Sows
R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball - Faba Bean and Field Pea Protein Concentrates as Replacements for Specialty Proteins in Nursery Diets for Weaned Pigs
C. Gunawardena, R. T. Zijlstra, L. A. Goonewardene and E. Beltranena - Growth Performance and Carcass Fatty Acid Profile of Pigs Fed Flaxseed Meal
L. Eastwood, P. Kish, J.F. Patience and P. Leterme - High-Fat Oat Groats for Weaned Pigs
J P. Leterme, B. Rossnagel, A. Samaraweera and J.F. Patience - Microbial Phytase Inclusion Improves Phosphorus Digestibility from Flaxseed Meal for Pigs
L. Eastwood, A. Owusu-Asiedu, P. Kish, A. Jasnier, A.D. Beaulieu and P. Leterme - Nutrient Digestibility of Lupin and Air-Classified Protein and Starch Fractions of Field Pea and Faba Bean in Grower Pigs
C. Gunawardena, R. T. Zijlstra and E. Beltranena - Nutritive Value of a Canola-Pea-Navy Bean Mixture for Pigs: Effect of Extrusion or Enzyme Supplementation
E. Kiarie, G. Borgesa, B. A. Slominski, and C. M. Nyachoti - Variation in the Digestible and Net Energy Content of Field Peas in Growing Pigs
P. Leterme, P. Kish, A.D. Beaulieu and J.F. Patience
- A Surgical Model for the Kinetics and Quantification of Nutrient Absorption in Swine: Its Application in Carbohydrate Metabolism
Banff Pork Seminar 2005, 2006 and 2007 Proceedings
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December 2008