You are invited to attend a one day conference

on Tuesday 17 November 2015

at Forbes of Kingennie, Kingennie, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 3RD

Registration and coffee at 9.45am. Event ends at 3.30pm

The event is free to attend and includes lunch

To register for the event, please email info@qmscotland.co.uk or call

0131 472 4040 by Friday 30th October 2015

Pig Industry Conference

09.45 Registration and Coffee

10.15 Welcome Uel Morton, Chief Executive, QMS

Session one chaired by Grace Webster, Chair, QMS Pig Health Group

10.20 Monitor Farm – Impact Lessons and Future Plans Danny Skinner, Monitor Farmer and Jim Booth, Facilitator, SAOS

10.55

11.25

11.35

11.45

Scottish Pig Herd Health – The past, the present and the future

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus and the Scottish Pig Disease Control Centre (SPDCC)

The Scottish Salmonella Scheme

Q&A

David Strachan, Swine Business Unit Manager, Boehringer Ingelheim and Carla Gomes, Veterinary Epidemiologist, Scotland’s Rural College

Gordon McKen, Director of Scottish Pig Disease Control Centre

Allan Ward, QMS Pig Specialist

12.00 Lunch

Session two chaired by Philip Sleigh, Chairman, QMS Pig Industry Group

13.00 Leveraging Pig and Pork Quality Professor John Deen, University of Minnesota

14.15 Quality Pork Ltd – Plans for the Future Roderic Bruce, Chairman, QPL and Andrew Saunders, Agriculture Director, Tulip

14.45 The Fresh Pork Market and the Specially Selected Pork Brand

Laurent Vernet, Head of Marketing, QMS

15.05 Panel Discussion and Questions

15.20 Round up of the day Jim McLaren, Chairman, QMS

15.30 End of Event

Pig Industry Conference Programme