Auditing Best Management Practices on Swine Farms Across Canada
Auditing Best Management Practices on Swine Farms Across Canada Ken Engele - Prairie Swine Centre, Phone: (306) 667-7443, Email: ken.engele@usask.ca Laurence Maignel - Centre de développement du porc du Québec, Phone: (613) 627-0732, Email: laurence@ccsi.ca Purpose and Objective of the Research This study involves a Canada-wide survey of best management practices...
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Ken Engele
2022 Prairie Swine Centre Les resultats
Le programme de recherche du Prairie Swine Centre vise à améliorer l'efficacité (économique, environnementale et de bien-être) des producteurs de porc du Canada. Les conclusions de la recherche 2022 du Centre sont maintenant disponibles. 2022 Prairie Swine Centre Les resultats - Results ...
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Ken Engele
Group Sow Housing Seminar – June 29
Group Sow Housing Seminar Group Sow Housing Meeting Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Canadian Room Saskatoon Inn & Conference Centre - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan As the industry makes the transition to group sow housing the types of questions producers have regarding their systems change. This seminar will address some of the commonly asked...
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Ken Engele
2022 Producer Meetings
Prairie Swine Centre along with our sponsors Zoetis and PIC are pleased to be hosting webinars that focus on your cost of production. You will be required to register for each webinar separately. Please click on the image below for more information or to register...
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Ken Engele
Ph.D. Position in Swine Nutrition & Physiology
The Prairie Swine Centre is seeking a passionate, bright, and highly motivated individual interested for a position as PhD graduate student in the disciplines of swine nutrition, physiology, and health. The successful candidate will join a strong, multidisciplinary academic and research team with expertise in...
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Ken Engele
Sask Pork recognizes local swine researcher with Award of Distinction
Sask Pork honoured local swine researcher Dr. Dan Columbus with a Saskatchewan Pork Industry Award of Distinction in the area of Excellence in Production Research this week at the 44th annual Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium. Columbus is a Research Scientist in Nutrition at Prairie Swine Centre...
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Ken Engele
New Swine Transport Trailer Design Guidelines Expected to Improve Cleanability, Safety, Animal Welfare
Dr. Bernardo Predicala - Prairie Swine Centre Farmscape for November 15, 2021 New swine transport trailer design guidelines under development by the Prairie Swine Center are expected to help improve the cleanability, safety and animal welfare aspects of equipment used to transport pigs. As part of a multidisciplinary research...
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Ken Engele
Strategies for Reducing Feed Costs – Virtual Town Hall
Taking a direct look at the increase in feed cost, there are different things producers can do to manage this high feed cost situation. This was a focus of a webinar held by Sask Pork, University of Saskatchewan and Prairie Swine Centre on September 23...
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Ken Engele
Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop
DAY ONE You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Oct 20, 2021 12:00 PM Edmonton Topic: Swine Technology Workshop - Virtual Webinar Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p2jBXiJTQMGdUnuUkw4MVw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. DAY TWO You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When:...
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Ken Engele
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