Preconference Sessions

Got data - now what??  Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory personnel will lead a hands-on computer workshop using Microsoft Excel 2007 templates to package diagnostic data into practice-enhancing medical information.  Tools offered will include templates for graphical display of results for reports, pivot table applications and analysis of historical data for trend identificaiton.  Participants should be proficient with Excel 2007 and at least familiar with pivot tables.  Participants need to bring laptop computers with Excel 2007 to use in the workshop.  Participants are also encouraged to share any killer apps they might have related to diagnostic data.

 

 

KSU - U of MN Nutrition Session: Managing Changing Swine Feed Cost
Sunday, September 20, 2009 – 1:00 to 5:00 pm
4 CE credits; Registration fee $95

 
Theme: Managing Changing Swine Feed Costs: Global Perspective with Practical Case Studies
With the wide changes in feed ingredients over the last several years, swine nutritionists and veterinarians have been challenged to reexamine and fine tune nutritional strategies. Our goal is to provide a perspective on these changes and present some of the real world outcomes that have resulted from these challenges.

Format: Two lead presentations from different perspectives, case presentation, and a wrap up session with panel discussion and audience participation.
 
Lead Presentations: Nutritional Strategies Used to Manage Swine Feed Cost Changes
 
1:00 to 1:45 European Perspective:
 
Mick Hazzledine  
Mick Hazzledine is currently Director of Pig Nutrition services at Premier Nutrition in the UK. Premier Nutrition provides nutritional services focused on ingredient nutritional profiles, best cost feed formulation, and micro ingredient procurement. Premier Nutrition operates in Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. His early career was in research where he ran a large pig and poultry research farm. Mick has held a number of technical, marketing and management positions with Dalgety and PIC for whom he worked for 25 years. Mick joined a private company, Premier Nutrition in 2001, with the mandate to "build a pig nutrition business” Additionally, is a founder of Nutrition Partners in Airdrie, Alberta that provides nutritional services across the prairie provinces of Canada. Recent research interests include the feeding value of wheat DDGS, reducing skatole by nutritional means, updating and extending his company’s proprietary ingredient database. Additional interests include "anything else that he can do to make his clients more profitable"!
 
1:45 to 2:30    North American Perspective:
 
Wayne Cast
Wayne is currently Director of Nutritional Services for Production Input Solutions. He received his B.S and M.S. degrees from the University of Nebraska focusing on swine nutrition.  He has worked in the swine and feed industry for the past 30 years both domestically and internationally.  Mr. Cast spent over 20 years in the feed industry developing cost effective feeding programs for his customers, acting as technical support to sales staff in the field and training and developing people.  For the past 11 years, he has been the Director of Nutrition for Premium Standard Farms, a Missouri-based swine producer which produces over 4 million pigs per year.  In addition to his nutritionist responsibilities, Wayne was responsible for three feed mills producing over 800,000 tons of feed annually. Mr. Cast is widely recognized for his practical approach to developing swine nutrition programs.
 
2:30 to 2:45 Break
 
2:45 to 4:15 Nutrition Related Case Studies
 
* Interrelationship between Iron Injection, Vitamin E and Selenium, and Genetic Line  
 
Chris Rademacher, DVM
Dr Rademacher is the Director of Veterinary for New Fashion Pork. New Fashion Pork is a leading, low cost pork producer in the United States with operations in Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Chris is noted for his thorough diagnostic approach when tackling pig health and production issues.
 
* A Review of Mulberry Heart Pathology Independent of Vitamin E and Selenium Status
 
Kent Schwartz DVM MS
Since 1989, Dr. Schwartz has been a veterinary diagnostician at Iowa State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. Each year he reviews over 2,500 submissions from veterinarians, providing test results interpretation and consultation. Dr. Schwartz also instructs and mentors fourth-year veterinary students, conducts field investigations and research, all with a focus on utilizing evidence based veterinary medicine. Recently, Dr. Schwartz was honored with the 2009 Howard Dunne Memorial Award by the American Association of Swine Veterinarians recognizing outstanding service contribution to the swine industry.
*Getting the Right Feed to the Right Pig: Clinical Presentation of a Feed Delivery Error in Nursery Pigs
 
Paul Ruen, DVM  
Dr. Ruen is a practitioner at the Fairmont Veterinary Clinic in Fairmont, Minn., a predominately swine practice that also provides management services to clients. He provides management services to a variety of swine clients and works hard to keep our focus on the three P’s of pig production – pigs, people, and profit. Dr. Ruen also is active in the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, currently serving as the president-elect. Dr. Ruen is a frequent speaker at veterinary meetings due to his practical approaches to solving production problems.
 
*Rachitic Rosaries and Rib Nodules
 
Steve Dritz DVM, PhD  
Steve is a member of the K-State Applied Swine Nutrition Team focusing on finding research based practical solutions to problems facing swine producers. As an applied field based researcher he has developed relationships in several swine production systems across North America that have commercial scale research facilities unavailable at K-State. Additionally, Dr. Dritz provides nutrition and production advice to a variety of North American swine farms.
 
*Iodine Value and Impact on Pork Quality: What is Iodine Value and Why Should We be Concerned
 
Joel DeRouchey, PhD (jderouch@ksu.edu)
Kansas State University
 
Joel also is a member of the K-State Applied Swine Nutrition Team. His focus is on understanding the impacts of alternative feed ingredients have on diet formulation strategies and feed ingredient. Dr. DeRouchey has been a leader in understanding the economic value of alternative feed ingredients like dried distillers grains. Also due to his practical approach Dr. DeRouchey provides nutritional advice to a variety of swine production systems.
 
4:15 to 5:00 PM Panel Discussion and Audience Interaction
           
            How can we use what we learned today to bring value to my practice and clients?
            We ask participants to come prepared to challenge speakers.

Hedging and Risk Management

Sunday, September 20, 2009
9:00 am to 12:00 noon
3 CE credits; Registration fee $95
Brian Buhr
 
 
In the past couple years, the pork industry has faced unprecedented volatility in both feed input and market hog prices. Given the general economic uncertainty and pressures on demand it is likely this volatility will continue in the coming years. This workshop focuses on price risk management strategies on both sides of the ledger- feed and hogs.   Special emphasis is given to the feed input side of the equation, but also includes market hogs. Leading firms with on the ground experience will provide insights on risk management strategies during great uncertainty.
 
Market Environment and Session Introduction - Brian Buhr
 
Successful Risk Management - Swine Production Company Perspective
 
Feed Procurement and Origination - Price management with new demands -
Cargill AgHorizons, Dennis Inman - Executive Vice President
 
Managing the Margin - CIH (Commodity Ingredient Hedging) - Perry Iverson

i-Production
Sunday, September 20, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.,
4 CE, Registration fee $95

1. Overview of i-Production, concentrating on user interface and reports for each of the main applications: Sow Manager, Finishing Manager, and Sales Manager.
2. Understanding the significance of Report Manager, a new application for creating customized reports and sets of reports linked to automated email delivery system.
3. Appreciating the Excel-based reporting structure in i-Production, including how to create and using macro to customize reports, build new reports, and create your own Excel applications. You will learn how to create global macros in Excel and see how customers are creating their own ways of manipulating the standard Excel-based reports provided by i-Production.
4. Understanding the "programmability" of i-Production. Web software companies can "open up" their functionality by providing API's (application programming interfaces) to many of their underlying features and functions. You can see this today in the open programming interfaces provided by Amazon, EBay, Salesforce, etc. Customers and third-parties are using i-Production as a platform for building their own applications. Programmability is one of the outstanding features of Web software applications that are built using what are called "web services." It means that users can create their own applications that call Web Services in i-Production to pull data, perform calculations, or link i-Production with other software programs to create more powerful and proprietary "mashups." We will show you how to do this using examples from customers who have created proprietary sales projections applications, inventory tracking applications, and automated data transfer applications.
5. Understanding and using the "slice & dice" functionality built in to i-Production, including demonstrations on the following:
   1. Sow Performance Monitor
   2. Nursery/Finishing Closeouts
   3. Movements & Sales
   4. Expenses and Cost of Production
6. Understanding the formats, calculation methods, and interpretation of key reports:
   1. Sow Performance Monitor
   2. Sow Parity Comparison
   3. Sow Genetics Comparison
   4. Group Closeout
   5. Active Group Summary
   6. Closeout Summary and Closeout Performance Monitor
   7. Feed Budget Comparison (across all Active Groups)
   8. Group Load Distribution (lights, heavies, in box results by load)
   9. Summary Kill Sheet (rollup/consolidation by site, grower, pod, business unit, flow, etc)
7. Understanding the carcass data functionality, learning how to download it, and learning how use it in a third-party model for carcass and revenue optimization.

September 21, 6:30 am
1.5 CE credits, Registration fee $35
River Centre
Hosted by Mark Engle