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31st Centralia Swine Research Update

Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre
January 25, 2012

9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9:50 Opening Remarks

10:00 Video Imaging for Real-time Performance Monitoring of Growing-finishing Pigs
Elyse Love, Department of Animal & Poultry Science, University of Guelph

10:15 Performance of Swine Barn Heat Exchanger
Vangjel Kristo, OMAFRA

10:30 The Impact of Inexpensive Nursery Diets on Grow/finish Performance and Carcass Quality
Dr. Crystal Levesque Department of Animal & Poultry Science University of Guelph

10:45 PRRS Update
Dr. Zvonimir Poljak, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

11:00 Efficacy of Meloxicam in Piglets at Castration in Improving Performance and Reducing Pain
Ryan Tenbergen, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

11:15 Benchmarking Farrow to Finish Farms - What Have We Learned?
Lynn Marchand, Ridgetown Campus, University of Guelph

11:30 How to Mitigate the Effects of Feeding DDGS on Carcass and Pork Quality
Dr. Eduardo Beltranena, Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development

LUNCH

1:30 Save $ with New Feeding Standards for Sows
Dr. Ron Ball, University of Alberta

1:45 Fancy Techniques to Assess Lameness and Evaluate the Effect of Analgesia on Sows
Dr. Rocio Amezcua, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

2:00 Will You Profit from Feeding Hogs to Heavier Weights?
Dr. Eduardo Beltranena, Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development

2:15 Air Filtration For Hog Barns
Stu Devries, General Manger Total swine Genetics

2:30 Study of an Integrated Management System of Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Ontario Corn
Dr. Victor Limay-Rios Ridgetown Campus, University of Guelph,

2:45 Periweaning Failure To Thrive Syndrome
Dr. Terri O'Sullivan, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph

3:00 National Pork Research Initiatives
Stewart Cressman, Ontario Pork

Adjourn

Program is subject to change without notice