Proceedings of the 2012 London Swine Conference
The 2012 London Swine Conference was held in London, Ontario, Canada on 28 and 29 March, with the theme ‘A Time for Change’.
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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 YoutubeTM 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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May 2012