Manitoba Swine Seminar 2009
Proceedings of the 23rd Manitoba Swine Seminar 2009 held in January 2009 with the theme 'Sharing Ideas and Information for Efficient Pork Production'.
To view the papers presented at the Seminar, click on the links below:
- Positioning the animal welfare message - Dan Murphy
- PCV2 research update review - Dr Francisco de Grau
- Impact of wean age on swine production - Dr Chad Hastad
- Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) in sow rations - Dr Sam Baidoo
- Economics of sow culling - Dr Stephanie Rutten-Ramos
- The basics of organic pig production - Janine Gibson
- Proper use of antibiotics in swine - Dr Mike Sheridan
- Pork industry in Manitoba - Andrew Dickson
- Intentional outcomes: a new focus on profits - Dr Dennis DiPietre
- Phytase: an effective tool to help reduce feed costs - Dr Milan Hruby
- Managing feed and crop rotations to reduce land base requirements for manure - Marla Riekman
- Maintaining optimum performance in a high feed cost environment - Dr Noel Williams
- Managing commodity and currency risk - John Carney
- Carcass demerits: the overlooked cost - Dr Tony Nikkel
- Trends in global hog production - Brad Marceniuk
- Pig production in Russia - Jim Long