National Swine Improvement Federation

Conference and Annual Meeting

Des Moines Marriott Hotel

Des Moines, IA

November 16-17, 1999

Program

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Tuesday, November 16, 1999

7:00 a.m. NSIF Board of Directors Meeting

10:00 a.m. Welcome to the Quality Lean Growth Modeling Symposium

10:15 a.m. Individual Pig Feed Intake Evaluation

Dr. Rodger Johnson, University of Nebraska

11:00 a.m. Economic lessons from growth, carcass and feed intake data

Dr. Mike Tokach, Kansas State University

11:45 a.m. Questions

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Valuing market pigs by carcass components

Dr. Hal Sellers, National Pork Producers Council

1:45 p.m. Use of Fat-Free Lean prediction equations for determining production end points.

Dr. Tom Baas, Iowa State University

2:30 p.m. Questions

3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Results of Bacon Production

Dr. Roger Mandigo, University of Nebraska

4:30 p.m. Questions

5:00 p.m. Break for dinner on your own.

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. NSIF Roundtable Discussion and Reception

Pork Quality: The Future of Quality Measurements,

Important Quality Traits, Payment for Quality

Moderator: Dr. Jim Schneider, Babcock Swine

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Wednesday, November 17, 1999

8:00 a.m. Results of Consumer Preference Trials for Loins

Dr. Steven Moeller, Ohio State University

8:45 a.m. Results of Consumer Preference Trials for Fresh Ham

Dr. Rhonda Miller, Texas A&M Unviersity

9:30 a.m. Questions

10:00 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. Value of Fresh Loin Quality Traits for producers and processors

Dr. Rodney Goodwin, National Pork Producers Council

10:45 a.m. Value of Ham and Bacon quality traits for producers and processors

Dr. Rhonda Miller, Texas A&M University

11:15 a.m. Questions

11:45 a.m. Adjourn Quality Lean Growth Modeling Symposium II

12:00 p.m. NSIF Annual Awards Banquet

1:15 p.m. NSIF Graduate Student Award, Research Presentation

Bradley Isler, Ohio State University

1:45 p.m. Genetics of Boar Taint: Implications for the Future use of Intact Males

Dr. James Squires, University of Guelph

2:25 p.m. New Technologies in Animal Breeding

Dr. Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University

3:05 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Challenges in the Competition for the Consumer Dollar: A Beef Cattleman’s Perspective

Mr. David Nichols, Managing Partner, Nichols Farms,

Bridewater, IA

4:00 p.m. Adjourn National Swine Improvement Federation Annual

Meeting

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. NSIF Board of Directors Meeting

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