SPRING PVS MEETING 2006 Tuesday 23rd - Wednesday 24th May 2006 DOWN HALL, STANSTEAD Download the Registration Form Here Download the Menu Selection Form 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:

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