{"id":20968,"date":"2018-04-06T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=20968"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:09:58","slug":"2018-prairie-swine-centre-producer-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/2018-prairie-swine-centre-producer-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Prairie Swine Centre Producer Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><em>2018 Producer Meetings<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"213\">Tuesday, April 24th<\/p>\n<p>Strathmore, Alberta<\/p>\n<p>Travelodge Hotel<\/p>\n<p>1150 &#8211; 350 Ridge Road<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"213\">Wednesday, April 25th<\/p>\n<p>Swift Current, Saskatchewan<\/p>\n<p>Days Inn<\/p>\n<p>905 North Service Road E<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"213\">Friday, April 27th<\/p>\n<p>Niverville, Manitoba<\/p>\n<p>Niverville Heritage Centre<\/p>\n<p>100 Heritage Trail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Time: 10:00 a.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>9:30 REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lunch will be provided<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feed Processing for Improved Production<\/strong>, <em>Denise Beaulieu, University of Saskatchewan<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feed processing can have significant impact on performance of your herd. What are the management strategies producers should examine within their milling to maximize mill and herd performance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Exercising sows \u2013 What producers need to know?<\/strong>,<em> Yolande Seddon, University of Saskatchewan<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changes to the Code require producers in the future to provide periodic greater freedom of<br \/>\nmovement to sows. Are sows motivated for a greater freedom of movement, and how can this be adopted on farm?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Evolution of Genetic Potential<\/strong>, <em>Daniel Godbout, PIC Canada Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A walk through time to look where we were 50 years ago, what has been accomplished, how it has been accomplished and what the future holds. Pigs have changed dramatically and nutrition and management approaches have too. We need to bring it all together to achieve the greatest success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pig Tales \u2013 Ongoing Benefits of Colostrum<\/strong>, <em>Leanne Van De Weyer, Zoetis<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colostrum is critical for pig health and performance beyond the pre-weaning phase. What can producers do to ensure all piglets get their \u201cfair share\u201d?.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The NSERC IRC in Swine Welfare \u2013 Benefits for the pork value chain<\/strong>, <em>Yolande Seddon, University of Saskatchewan<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chair is an opportunity to contribute to advancing sustainable production systems that will add to the scientific understanding of methods to improve animal welfare and identify progressive management approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Look Back \u2013 A Look Forward: Prairie Swine Centre at Your Service<\/strong>, <em>Lee Whittington, PSCI<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2017 Prairie Swine Centre is celebrating 25 Years. We will take a walk through this period and examine the greatest accomplishments that benefits producers and where we are headed in the future?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To register for this seminar, please contact:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ken.engele@usask.ca\">ken.engele@usask.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Prairie Swine Centre would like to thank PIC Canada and Zoetis for their sponsorship and promotion of these meetings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 Producer Meetings Tuesday, April 24th Strathmore, Alberta Travelodge Hotel 1150 &#8211; 350 Ridge Road Wednesday, April 25th Swift Current, Saskatchewan Days Inn 905 North Service Road E Friday, April 27th Niverville, Manitoba Niverville Heritage Centre 100 Heritage Trail &nbsp; Time: 10:00 a.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m. 9:30 REGISTRATION Lunch will be provided &nbsp; PROGRAM Feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20968"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20990,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968\/revisions\/20990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}