Strategies for Reducing Feed Costs and Maintaining Swine Nutrition
VIRTUAL TOWN HALL Strategies for Reducing Feed Costs and Maintaining Swine Nutrition Thursday, September 23rd - 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. - VIA ZOOM Sask Pork is hosting this webinar to respond to producers’ concerns about higher feed prices and supply issues as a result of the ongoing drought in...
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Ken Engele
PSC Producer Meeting, April 22
2021 Producer Meeting Webinar Series In our continued commitment to bring you timely relevant information we will be hosting a webinar in place of our traditional producers meetings held in April of each year. We look forward to the time when the industry can get back together...
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Ken Engele
Functional amino acid supplementation improves growth performance and immune status of weaned pigs
High dietary protein can potentially increase susceptibility of weaned pigs to enteric pathogens; it has been hypothesized that dietary supplementation with functional amino acids may improve growth performance of pigs during disease challenge. A recent study, published in the Journal of Animal Science, aimed to...
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Ken Engele
2020 Saskatchewan Pork Symposium
The 2020 Saskatchewan Pork Symposium will be held VIRTUALLY on Thursdays from November 5 thru December 3 1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. (CST) Registration is FREE More information on upcoming Symposium topics/speakers can be found at: https://www.saskpork.com/pork-industry-symposium For presentations already delivered can be found at: Watch the Nov 12th Video Recording by...
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Ken Engele
2020 Saskatchewan Pork Symposium
Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium November 2020 This year’s event will held VIRTUALLY on consecutive Thursdays from November 5 thru December 3, 2020. There will be no general sponsorship package available for this year’s program. https://www.saskpork.com/pork-industry-symposium ...
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Ken Engele
Motivated for Movement – What is the cost of sow exercise?
Preliminary sow performance measures suggest exercising stall-housed gestating sows for 10 minutes, once per week has minimal effects on the productivity of younger sows, but may have a positive effect on older parity sows - increasing the number of live born and reducing stillborns. With...
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Ken Engele
PSC Producer Meetings – Day 1
Feeding for Health – Can we Adjust Diets to Create a More Robust Pig?, Dan Columbus, Prairie Swine Centre Vaccines in Practice - Understanding and Optimizing Your Vaccines, Jessica Law, Prairie Swine Health Services https://youtu.be/NkkSaWKs4Tk ...
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Ken Engele
PSC Producer Meetings – Day 2
The Role of Diet in GHG Output from Swine Facilities - Denise Beaulieu, University of Saskatchewan Breeding for Pig Robustness - Saskia Bloemhof-Abma, PIC How Does Transport Influence the Welfare and Productivity of Weaned Piglets? - Yolande Seddon, University of Saskatchewan https://youtu.be/AlsOYUBJl4Q ...
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Ken Engele
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Ken Engele
Ideas to Fine Tune Your Operation
During these unprecedented times producers are challenged with maintaining operational efficiency and assessing external factors that directly impact their operations. By taking a inward approach we may be able to find little things that can positively impact the bottom line. As we start to find...
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Ken Engele