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Plenary Session 1: 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

Workshop sessions

• Advanced Sow Troubleshooting
• Measuring Lameness in Sows
• Impact of Lameness on Productive Potential of the Sow
• What You Should Know About Your Financial Health
• Post Cervical Artificial Insemination in Sows - What, Why, How?
• Differences 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

Plenary Session 2: Maximising Return

• 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^TM Environment

Workshop sessions

• Making an On-Farm Research Trial Work
• Making an On-Farm Trial Work
• Pig Handling and Transportation Strategies Utilized 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 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

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You can view the proceedings of the 2012 London Swine Conference by clicking here.

May 2012