The theme of the 2012 conference, which was held on 28 and 29 March 2012 in London, Ontario, was 'Time for Change'.

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Breeding Success

• A change in perspective
• Canadian pork trade balance, outlook and opportunity gaps
• Tools, techniques and strategies to improve reproductive performance and genetic progress
• Benchmarking practices of the most profitable companies

Day 1 Workshops

• Advanced sow trouble-shooting
• Measuring lameness in sows
• Impact of lameness in productive potential of the sow
• What you should know about your financial health
• Post-cervical artificial insemination in sows - what, why, how?
• Difference in mating between a boar, traditional artificial insemination and post-cervical insemination
• Implementing simple and useful production benchmarking
• Why benchmarking is important
• Maximising the impact of high-value and high-fertility boars

Maximising Returns

Marketing options in a new environment Evidence-based decisions: combining science-based studies with experience Collaboration between the Ministry of Labour, WSPS and you Pork production in a Youtube environment

Day 2 Workshops

• Making an on-farm research trial work
• Making an on-farm trial work
• Pig handling and transportation strategies utilised under US commercial conditions
• New handling and transportation strategies under Canadian conditions
• Effective grading
• Exploring the Ontario pork grading data online database
• Taking the 'alternative' out of alternative feed ingredients
• Feeding alternative feed ingredients
• Liquid co-products: a practical overview
• The future of finishing barns
• Large group auto-sort systems for managing growing-finishing pigs 2012
• Ten rules to optimise nursery-grow-finish productivity

Further Reading You can view the full proceedings by clicking here.

March 2013