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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:
Swine Innovation Porc
Posted in: Publications by admin on May 7, 2012
Swine Innovation Porc is a multi-year $9.6 million program established within the Growing Canadian Agri-Innovation Program to address the research questions of the pork industry.
The objectives of Swine Innovation Porc are to facilitate research, technology transfer and commercialization initiatives designed to enhance the competitiveness and differentiation of Canada’s pork industry.
The Swine Innovation Research program consists of 14 research projects in which 10 focus directly on increasing revenue or decreasing the cost of production, 4 focus on product differentiation, and 3 technology transfer initiatives.
It is truly a collaborative project involving the coordination of 22 private partners, 100 researchers, 14 universities, and 13 research centres (16 organizations throughout Canada). Prairie Swine Centre and CDPQ have been given the task of developing a coordinated technology transfer program that effectively delivers the research results to pork producers and the industry.
Benefits to the Producer
The ultimate goal of Swine Innovation Porc is to ensure adoption of research results in the Canadian pork industry, and ensure measurable results by the completion of the funding agreement (March 2013).. This will happen in a number of ways including the translation of research results in both official languages, and the development of a lead users program (demonstration farms) that would implement new technologies or management strategies developed through Swine Innovation Porc. Research projects have identified short, intermediate and long term benefits to the Canadian pork industry in the areas of swine nutrition, genetic improvement, animal welfare and environmental and engineering management.
Publications
Research Papers
R. Ball. Save $ with New Feeding Standards for Sows
S. Moehn, D. Franco, C. Levesque, R. Samuel and R. Ball. Phase feeding for pregnant sows
S. Moehn, D. Franco, C. Levesque, R. Samuel and R. Ball. New Energy and Amino Acid Requirements for Gestating Sows
Journal Articles
E. Avelar, R. Jha, E. Beltranena, M. Cervantes, A. Morales, R.T. Zijlstra. The effect of feeding wheat distillers dried grain with solubles on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 160 (2010) pp. 73-77
R. Jha, D.N. Overend, P.H. Simmins, D. Hickling, R.T. Zijlstra. Chemical characteristics, feed processing quality, growth performance and energy digestibility among wheat classes in pelleted diets fed to weaned pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 170 (2011) pp. 78-90
J.L. Landero, E. Beltranena, M. Cervantes, A. Morales, R.T. Zijlstra. The effect of feeding solvent-extracted canola meal on growth performance and diet nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology. Animal Feed Science and Technology 170 (2011) pp. 136-140
J.L. Landero, E. Beltranena, M. Cervantes, A.B. Araiza, R.T. Zijlstra. The effect of feeding expeller-pressed canola meal on growth performance and diet nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology. In Press
R.W. Seneviratne, E. Beltranena, L.A. Goonewardene, R.T. Zijlstra. Effect of crude glycerol combined with solvent-extracted or expeller-pressed canola meal on growth performance and diet nutrient digestibility of weaned pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 170 (2011) 105– 110
Abstracts
S. Moehn and R. Ball. New developments in energy and amino acid nutrition of sows
S. Moehn, D. Franco, J.K. Josephson, P.B. Pencharz and R. O. Ball. Isoleucine requirement of pregnant sows
Moehn, S., D.J. Franco, J.K. Josephson, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball. Isoleucine requirement for pregnancy in adult sows
S. Moehn and R. Ball. A Case for Phase Feeding Pregnant Sows
S. Moehn, D. Franco, J.K. Josephson, P.B. Pencharz and R. O. Ball. Tryptophan requirement of pregnant sows
S. Moehn, D. Franco, J.K. Josephson, P.B. Pencharz and R. O. Ball. Tryptophan requirement of young, growing sows during pregnancy
Powerpoint Presentations
S. Moehn, D. Franco, C. Levesque, R. Samuel and R. O. Ball. Phase Feeding for Pregnant Sows