Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives

Manitoba Swine Seminar
 

2002 Volume 16. Sharing Ideas and Information for Efficient Pork Production

Day 1 Sow/Boar Day

• New Developments to Maximise Efficiency
• On-farm AI – Understanding the Practicalities and Avoiding the Pitfalls
• Optimum Strategies in Artificial Insemination, with Emphasis on the Timing Relative to Ovulation and the Role of the Boar
• Recent Advances in Gilt Development and Management of Parity Control
• Use of Computers to solve reproductive Problems in Swine: From Bytes to Boars
• Using Records to Optimize Breeding Herd Productivity and Weaned Pig Cost

Day 2 Grow/Finish Day

• Foreign Animal Disease – Is there a real threat? What can we do?
• Handling Pigs for Optimum Performance on the Farm and in the Slaughter Plant
• Nursery Management: Hygiene and Feeding Management Practices to Ensure Healthy Pigs
• QM, Auditing and Certification – Impacts on Product Quality, On-Farm Food Safety and Animal Well Being
• Seeking Alternatives to Growth Promoting Antibiotics
• The New Medicated Feed Regulations