2011: Exploring the Future

2010: Focus on the Future

Individual Articles

• The Global Pork Situation - Where Does Canada Fit? - Ken McEwan
• A Holistic View of the Future - Dennis DiPietre
• Milk Production and Nutritional Requirements of Modern Sows - Casey Neill and Noel Williams
• Precision Management: What Top Producers are Doing to be Profitable - Hans Rotto
• Performance Versus Cost - Robert Morrison
• Advances in Sow and Gilt Management - Rudolf Wiedmann
• Food Safety, Traceability and Public Health - Terry Whiting
• Between the Gate and Plate: A Grocer’s Perspective on the Influence of Consumer Demands on the Value Chain - Stacie Sopinka

Break Out Sessions

• Castration in the Swine Industry and the Impact on Growth Performance - Physical Versus Vaccination - Frank Dunshea
• Managing Boar Taint: Focus on Genetic Markers - E.J. Squires and F.S. Schenkel
• Green Initiatives: Overall Evaluation of Innovative Pig Fattening Systems for Animal - Welfare Label Production - Wilhelm Pflanz
• Green Initiatives for the Swine Sector - Donald Hilborn
• Alternative Farrowing Systems - Rudolf Wiedmann
• Alternative Farrowing Options - Larry Bowman
• The Use of Byproducts and High Fiber Ingredients in Swine Diets - Casey Neill and Noel Williams
• Byproduct Feed Ingredients for Swine Diets - Opportunities and Challenges - Ron Lackey
• Management by Measurement - Dennis DiPietre and Janette Richards
• Making the Most of Your Herd Health Visits - Kevin Vilaca and Jeff and Nancy Balfour
• What is My Cost of Production? - John Molenhuis
• Trends Toward Older Weaning Age: Health and Nutritional Impacts - Hans Rotto
• Review of Weaning Age Effects on Weaned Pig Performance - Mike Edwards

2009: Tools of the Trade

Individual Articles

• Managing Highly Prolific Sows - Guy-Pierre Martineau and Brigitte Badouard
• Fine Tuning Nursery Management to Optimize Production Costs - Peter Wilcock
• Pork Production Versus Consumer Demands - Mario Lapierre
• Lowering Feed Costs - Kevin Stickney
• Benchmarking and Tools to Maximize Profit - Greg Bilbrey
• The USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System - Charles Haley
• Zoonotic Diseases from Pigs - Zvonimir Poljak

Break Out Sessions

• Sow Feeding Management during Lactation - Michel Vignola
• Nursery Improvement – Practical Tips - Peter Wilcock
• Benchmarking and Feed Budgeting - Jeff Robinson
• Effective Ventilation - Harry Huffman
• Effective Ventilation - Tom Sangster
• Hormonal Control of Pig Reproduction - Glen Cassar
• Practical Management of the Transition to Batch Farrowing - Dennis Aarts
• Improving Energy Use Efficiency - Reducing and Refining the Use of Energy Inputs on Farm - Ron MacDonald
• Improving Energy Use Efficiency - Robert Chambers
• Hog Price Reporting in Canada - Ken McEwan
• Reducing Feed Costs in Grower-Finisher Barns - Greg Simpson
• Reducing Grower-Finisher Feed Costs - Kevin Stickney
• Alternative Value Chains: Jones Feed Mills Case Study - Mario Lapierre
• Willowgrove Hill – An Ontario Success Story - Paul Hill
• Designing Field Trials to Compare Vaccines or Antibiotics - Cate Dewey
• Cost Benefit of Vaccines and Medication - Nickels and Dimes? - Greg Wideman

2008: Facing the New Reality

Individual Articles

• An Industry in Change - Ben Woolley
• Is There an 'Optimum' Production System? - Michael Brumm
• Balancing Sow and Piglet Welfare with Production Efficiency - Sandra Edwards
• New Opportunities for Reproductive Management - William Flowers
• Impacts on Further Growth of the North American Pork Industry - John Lawrence
• MISSION 2050 - Research and Industry Infrastructure in the Year 2050 - Vern Osborne
• Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV): The Disease that Keeps Bugging Us - Jeff Zimmerman
• Control of Salmonella in the Pork Production Chain - Julie Funk

Break Out Sessions

• Livestock Border Closure Contingency Plan - Deborah Stark
• Preparing for a Border Closure - Clare Schlegel
• Border Closure: Effects on the Ontario Feed Industry - Dan Ganesh
• Managing Pig Flow - Considerations as a Buyer of Weaned Pigs - Michael Brumm
• Optimum Pig Flows - Ben Woolley
• Insurance Based Risk Management for Swine Facilities - Randy Drysdale
• Risk Management for Farms - Paul Wigood
• Using Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) in Swine Diets - Malachy Young
• Canadian Experience with Feeding DDGS - Phil McEwen
• Canadian Experience with Feeding DDGS - Andrew Pharazyn
• Fire Disaster Recovery: Producer and Veterinary Perspectives - Paul Morris
• Pulling the Pin on Disease - Sue Burlatschenko
• On-Farm Animal Welfare Audits - Sandra Edwards
• Developing the Animal Care Assessment - Catherine Scovil
• Optimum Solutions for Grower-Finisher Pigs - Neil Ferguson
• Nutrition Solutions for Grower-Finisher Pigs - Bruno Marty
• Alternative Sources of Energy - On-Farm Options - Steve Clarke
• Challenges in the Anaerobic Digestion of Hog Manure - Marcel Stadelmann, Benjamin Strehler, Cigdem Eskicioglu, and Kevin Kennedy
• Applying Reproductive Technologies in Practice - William Flowers
• Quality Control of Extended Boar Semen - Mario Baracaldo and Jim Ward

2007: Today's Challenges... Tomorrow's Opportunities 

Individual Articles

• Competitiveness in the Canadian Pork Segment: A Reassessment - Kevin Grier
• New Tools to Manage Variability throughout the Pork Production Chain - Mike Tokach
• Principles of Health Management - François Cardinal
• Forgotten Diseases - Bob Friendship
• New Tools to Make Genetic Progress - Jack Dekkers
• Feeding the Pigs' Immune System and Alternatives to Antibiotics - Hans Stein
• Nutritional Management of the Gilt for Lifetime Productivity: Feeding for Fitness or Fatness? - Pinder Gill

Break Out Sessions

• Alternative Feed Ingredients for Pigs - Hans Stein and Kees de Lange
• Alternative Energy Sources: Biogas Production - Harold House
• Alternative Energy Sources: A Hog Producer's Perspective of On-Farm Anaerobic Digesters - Gilbert Vanden Heuvel
• Alternative Energy Sources: What We Learned from European Technology and a Practical Look at Possible Ontario On-Farm Applications - Martin Van Raay
• On-Farm Health Management - François Cardinal
• Best Management Practices Used in the Control of PRRS - George Charbonneau
• Key Measures of Performance in the Growing-Finishing Barn for Informed Decision Making - Mike Tokach
• Managing and Monitoring the Finishing Barn: Six Things Not to Do - Mark Yungblut
• Benchmarking... Show Me the Money! - Ken McEwan
• Benchmarking... Show Me the Money! - Bev Hill
• Managing Reproduction: Critical Control Points in Exceeding 30 Pigs Per Sow Per Year - Pinder Gill
• Managing Reproduction: Fact and Folklore - Doug Wey
• Management Practices that Optimize Productivity in the Nursery: Case Studies on What Works! - Cameron Farrell and Cathy Templeton
• Recruiting and Training Employees - Carole Gumprich
• Recruiting and Training Employees - Aime Tamba
• On-Farm Feed Inspections - John Secord
• On-Farm Medication Use: Challenges and Opportunities - John Rheaume

2006: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally 

Individual Articles

• The Global Picture: Forces that Impact on Swine Production - Knud Buhl
• Making Progress through Research - Kees de Lange
• Different Approaches to Handling PRRS - Monte McCaw
• Different Approaches to Handling Circovirus - John Harding
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: Canada - Clare Schlegel
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: North Carolina - Monte McCaw
• Pork Production Around the World - Challenges & Opportunities: the World - John Gadd

Break Out Sessions

• New thoughts on Nutrition of Newly Weaned Pigs  - John Pluske
• New thoughts on Nutrition of Newly Weaned Pigs  - Bob Goodband
• Hitting the Target on your Grid - John Otten & John Bancroft
• Gestation Stalls - a practical look at on-farm alternatives - John Gadd
• Gestation Stalls - a practical look at on-farm alternatives - James Osborne
• New Approaches to Weaner Room Management - John Harding
• New Approaches to Weaner Room Management - John Pluske
• What Producers can do to improve Meat Quality - Bob Goodband
• What Producers can do to improve Meat Quality - Andy Robinson
• How to Hire and Keep Employees - Ken McEwan
• How to Hire and Keep Employees - Rob McDougall
• Reproductive Innovations - Roy Kirkwood
• Reproductive Innovations - Mark Wilson
• Managing PRRS in a sow population - Monte McCaw
• Managing PRRS in a sow population - Cate Dewey
• On-Farm Experiences with Liquid Feeding - Kees de Lange
• On-Farm Experiences with Liquid Feeding - Leroy Van Ryswyck
• Energy Conservation - Ron MacDonald, Harry Huffman