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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
Lewisville Group Housing
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This presentation outlines the group housing system used at Lewisville including PROS an CONS of straw group housing with ESF.
Lewisville – Group Sow Housing – Panel – Ted Ratte – Nov 2016
Trickle Feeding Loose Housing for Gestation Sows
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This presentation outlines the transition at Perkins farms from gestation stalls to loose housing and trickle feeding. This trickle feeding system was managed in a way that the sows eating the fastest would finish their feed at the same time as the slowest sows.
Perkins Farms Trickle Feeding Sow Loose Housing Sow System -T Kennelly
Matador farms sow housing system
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This presentation outlines the specific way this farm is set up.
De-Mystifying Genomics
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This presentation outlines the process of genomic selection,
• Past progress in genomics
• The pig genome and SNP’s
• How SNP’s are used
• Genomic Evaluations
• Future Possibilities
D Grossi-Murray Duggan-Fast Genetics – De-Mystifying Genomics – Nov 2016
Prairie Swine Centre Antibiotic Benchmarking Project
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• Antibiotic benchmarking projects – 2013/2015
• Data
- All antibiotic used for a year
- Feed, water & injectable
- All stages of production
- All types of antibiotics
- Treatment records
- Farm inventory at various stage
Summary
• 2013 antibiotic use at PSC low
• Were able to reduce further, without compromising welfare
Henry Gauvreau – Prairie Swine Centre Antibiotic Benchmark- Nov 2016
Ventilating for High Health Production
Posted in: Air Filtration, Pork Insight Articles by admin on June 6, 2017 | No Comments
This presentation outlines the following topics:
- Recommended Ventilation Rates
- Inlet management
- Room inlets
- Attic and building air intake
- Locking inlets versus higher minimums
- Variable speed fans and controllers
Bringing Precision Agriculture to the Pork Industry
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Precision farming is now a commonly accepted term. In a decade, it has become the standard in pursuit of best management practice. Precision agriculture is a way of thinking about your farm and it is raising the bar for the whole industry on what is possible to measure and thus manage. It includes all aspects of arable farming, from seeding rate to spraying only spots that require it, to continuous yield monitoring on combines replacing the grain weigh buggy. The data stream coming out of this technology places resources such as fertilizer or pesticide just where its required-and creates a database that allows analysis for impact of environmental (soil, moisture) conditions. In short, allocation of expensive resources linked to collection of yield data. I expect that nothing will push net income up quicker on well-managed farms, and thus reinforce to management the value of the technology.
The Face of Jobs and Economic Growth in Canada
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The majority of this presentation focuses on the importance of branding verified Canadian pork overseas as well as increasing Canada’s export market to countries like Korea and Japan.
Greg Giokas-CPI – The Face of Jobs and Economic Growth in Canada-Nov 2016
World Pork Trade: Outlook and Challenges
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SUMMARY:
• Heavy current supplies and capacity issues
– Capacity issues will be resolved next year
• China pork import bubble is bursting
– Cheaper EU pork in key export markets
• Abundant pork supplies globally and in N. America in 2017
• Price pressure in 2017
Brett Stuart – World Pork Trade-Outlook & Challenges-Nov 2016
Biological Limitations in Pig Production – Genomics
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This presentation discusses the future of genomics in the nucleus herd and the addition of gene editing to promote alleles already present in the population.
Abe Huisman – Biological Limitations in Pig Production-2016-11-15