INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SWINE NUTRITIONAugust 25 & 26, 2020

Gateway Hotel & Conference Center, Ames, Iowa

https://www.regcytes.extension.iastate.edu/swinenutrition/

SPEAKERSDr. Hans Stein, University of Illinois

Dr. Trey Kellner, AMVC

Dr. R Dean Boyd, The Hanor Company

Dr. Nick Gabler, Iowa State University

Dr. Neil Ferguson, Trouw Nutrition

Dr. David Raubenheimer, University of Sydney

Dr. Peter Theil, Aarhus University

Dr. Dana Stanley, Central Queensland University

Dr. John Patience, Iowa State University

Dr. Defa Li, China Agricultural University

Dr. Jaume Coma, Valls Companys

Dr. Mike Tokach, Kansas State University

Dr. Aaron Gaines, AniTek

PRESENTATION TOPICS

• Towards increased accuracy of estimating net energy of diets and feed ingredients for ad libitum fed group housed pigs using the indirect calorimetry approach

• Energy: how to value dietary fat and implications for diet formulation

• Feeding to optimize performance and viability of growing pigs

• What we have learned and future thoughts on feeding pigs during times of stress and disease

• The role of modelling in nutrition and management – current successes and future prospects

• What we can learn from studies on nutritional ecology

• Feeding to optimize the performance of the highly prolific female and her offspring

• Livestock microbiota manipulation through nutrition

• Nutritive and non-nutritive roles of fiber in the diet

• Progress in research in swine nutrition in China: where it was, where it is, and where it is headed

• A European perspective of applied swine nutrition

• Where are we headed with branch chained amino acids and swine nutrition in general

• Final comments and wrap-up with Aaron Gaines

• BONUS: An exciting “Boar Pit” session with Wayne Cast!

National Pork Board in Des Moines, Iowa