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SPRING PVS MEETING 2006

Tuesday 23rd - Wednesday 24th May 2006

DOWN HALL, STANSTEAD


Meeting Details

The Spring 2006 meeting will be held at Down Hall in Stanstead on Tuesday 23rd - Wednesday 24th May 2006.

The program is as follows:

Tuesday 23rd May
11.00 Presidential address Roger Harvey
11.05 - 13.00 Rebuilding health Chair: John Mackinnon
11.05 - 11.40 Life on the Line: The Wholesome Pigs Scotland Abattoir Monitoring Programme David Strachan, SAC
11.40 - 12.15 Cost benefits of control of Enzootic Pneumonia in Pigs Isobel McClement, Richard Bennett, University of Reading
12.15 - 12.50 Control of viral pneumonias John Carr, University of Iowa
12.50 - 13.00 Viral pneumonias detected in pigs in recent years Graham Jackson, VLA Bury
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH  
14.00 - 15.45 Improving breeding herd performance Chair: Meritxell Donadeu
14.00 - 14.35 State of the art in conventional AI on Danish farms Anne Marie Hedeboe, DBMC
14.35 - 15.10 Seasonal infertility in the domestic pig - myth or menace? Julian Wiseman, University of Nottingham
15.10 - 15.15 Setting a new standard for breeding herds. Angela Cliff, BPEX
15.15 - 16.00 Sponsored Session: Water medication with SOLUBENOL® Four week batch farrowing - Regumate® Emma Jones MVB MRCVS, Dr Jan Jourquin, Janssen Animal Health
16.00 - 16.30 TEA  
16.30 - 17.15 Looking to the future Chair: Roger Harvey
16.30 - 17.15 The future of the profession - are we producing the vets. BVA Junior Vice-President, David Catlow
17.15 - 18.15 AGM Chair: PVS President
18.15 - 19.30 CLINICAL CLUB
Topical updates and Interesting cases
David Chennells
19.30 - 20.00 Bar for dinner  

Wednesday 24th May
9.00 - 10.45 Planning for profit Chair: Grace Webster
9.00 - 9.35 Control of Glässer's Disease Steven McOrist, Nottingham University
9.35 - 10.10 Farm Health Planning for Pigs - current developments Jamie Robertson, Livestock Management Systems
10.10 - 10.45 Could there be profit in the control of Salmonella - organic acids? Maarten van der Heijden, Selko
10.45 - 11.15 BREAK  
11.15 - 13.00 Research roundtable Chair: Derek Armstrong
11.15 - 12.00 Leptospira in pigs - a project update Investigating the ZAP Level 2 or 3 farm Farm case studies Susanna Williamson, VLA Bury, Alasdair Cook, VLA Weybridge
12.00 - 13.00 What research does the pig industry need and how should we deliver it? Mark Wilson, BPEX, Sandra Edwards, FAWC, Alex Morrow, Defra, John Carr, University of Iowa.
13.00 Closing address


This meeting is sponsored by:

Janssen Animal Health

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