Education Program

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Sneak Peek!  Listen to these podcasts as speakers give us a brief glimpse into what they will be talking about at the show!

Dr. Rob Porter.mp3 - Broiler Production Workshop

Dr. Irene Wesley.mp3 - Turkey Grower Workshop

 

Tuesday, March 16 – PRE-SHOW NUTRITION SYMPOSIUM (1:30-5:00 pm)

Back for its 14th year, the Pre-Show Nutrition Symposium is free with your paid registration to the MPF Convention so plan to come early and get a jump start on your learning!

 

Dr. Sheila Scheideler, Chairperson

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

 

Early Nutritional Imprinting in Broilers:  What We Know and Its Applications

Dr. Roselina Angel

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

 

Practical Considerations for Using Corn Dried Distiller’s Grains with Solubles

(DDGS) in Poultry Feeds

Dr. Danny Hooge

Hooge Consulting Service, Inc., Eagle Mountain, Utah

 

Feed Borne Mycotoxins: The Threat to Poultry?

Dr. Trevor Smith

Guelph University, Guelph, Canada

 

Evaluation and Use of Enzymes in Poultry Diets

Dr. Mike Persia

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

 

Wednesday, March 17 – MORNING SESSIONS  (8:30 am-10:30 am)

Turkey Grower Workshop

Mr. Ron Kean, Chairperson

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

 

Turkey Outlook 2010

Dr. Thomas E. Elam

FarmEcon LLC, Carmel, Indiana

 

Cold Weather Ventilation

Dr. Michael Czarick

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

 

Dynamics of Salmonella and Campylobacter in Turkey Flocks:  Poults to Platter

Dr. Irene Wesley

USDA National Animal Disease Center

Ames, Iowa

 

Egg Production Workshop

Mr. Brent Swanson, Chairperson

Lohmann Animal Health, Dassel, Minnesota

 

Range Egg Production, Is It Better than in Cages?

Dr. Ken Anderson

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

SE Control in the US Egg Industry and the New FDA Egg Safety Rule

Eric Gingerich, DVM, dipl. ACPV

University of Pennsylvania

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

 

Managing Egg Size in Layer Flocks

Alexandra Mendoza-Reilley, DVM

Centurion Poultry, Lexington Georgia

 

Organic & Specialty Poultry – NOTE: This workshop runs 9:00-10:30 am

Production Workshop - Session I

Dr. Jacquie Jacob, Chairperson

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Mechanisms of Pathogen Control in the Digestive Tract of Poultry

Dr. Annie Donoghue

USDA/ARS, Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

Natural Solutions to Pathogens and Gut Health

Dr. Dan Donoghue

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

Wednesday, March 17 – AFTERNOON SESSIONS (3:00-5:00 pm)

Organic & Specialty Poultry

Production Workshop - Session II

Dr. Jacquie Jacob, Chairperson

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

Choice Feeding of Poultry

Dr. Anne Fanatico

USDA Agricultural Research Service

Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

Plants Poisonous to Poultry

and

Applications of Yucca and Quillaja Products as Feed Additives for Broilers

Dr. Peter Cheeke

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

 

Broiler Production Workshop

Mr. Jeremy Lies, Chairperson

Gold’n Plump Poultry, St. Cloud, Minnesota

 

The U.S. Broiler Industry:  Current Issues and Trends

Dr. Bret Rings

Pfizer Animal Health

 

The Science, Politics and Management of

Avian Influenza

Rob Porter, DVM

Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Notifiable Avian Influenza – How Do We Respond in 2010?

Dale C. Lauer, DVM

Minnesota Board of Animal Health

Wilmar, Minnesota

 

Poultry Litter Management Workshop

Dr. Darrin Karcher, Chairperson

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

 

Minnesota’s New NPDES Permit for CAFOs

Dave Wall

MN Pollution Control Board, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Starved Air Low Temperature (SALT) Gasification

Goutam H. Shahani

Heat Transfer International Inc. (HTI)

Kentwood, Michigan

 

Where the City Meets the Farm:  A Case Study of Drainage and Water Quality

Dr. John F. Moncrief

University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota  

 

Turkey Breeder Workshop

Dr. Michael Lilburn, Chairperson

The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio

 

Incubation Management Affects Early Bone Development and Influence Leg Health in Turkeys

Edgar Oviedo, DVM

North Carolina State University,

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

Two Hundred Million Sperm Cells Per Hen?

No Way!

Radivoje Spasojevic, DVM

Willmar Poultry Company, Willmar, Minnesota

 

Hatchery Analysis for Critical Control of Poults

Dr. Mike Hulet

Penn State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

 

Turkey Processing Workshop

Dr. Dong Ahn, Chairperson

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

 

Stunning Methods in Turkey Processing

Dr. Casey Owens

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

Hot Boned Poultry Process

Dr. Ike Kang

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

 

Dealing with Reduced Protein Functionality in Poultry Meat

Dr. Mirko Betti

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

 

Thursday, March 18 – MORNING SESSION (9:00-11:00 am)

Simmering Issues Workshop

Dr. Ken Koelkebeck, Chairperson

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 

 

Ongoing Animal Rights Challenge: A View from Ohio

Jim Chakeres

Ohio Poultry Association (OPA), Columbus, OH

 

Prop 2: The California Experience

Gregg Cutler, DVM

 

The Future of Antibiotics in Food Animal

Production

Hector Cervantes, DVM, MS, Dip. ACPV

The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 

 

Thursday, March 18 – AFTERNOON SESSIONS (12:00-2:00 pm)

Turkey Health Workshop

Mr. Randy Olsen, Chairperson

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc., Willmar, MN

 

Update on Clostridial Dermatitis (Cellulitis)

Steve Davis, DVM, ACPV Diplomat

Colorado Quality Research, Wellington, Colorado

 

Focusing on Critical Questions about Influenza Virus Infections

Carol Cardona, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACPV

University of Minnesota, St. Paul

 

Pullet/Layer Health Workshop

Richard Fulton, DVM, Chairperson

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 

Current Views on E. Coli Peritonitis

Hugo Medina, DVM

Sparboe Farms Inc., Litchfield, Minnesota

 

What a Veterinarian Does in Relation to Animal Health

and Well-Being

Rich Dutton, DVM

Michael Foods, Wakefield, Nebraska

 

Starting Chicks and Body Weight Uniformity

Bernie Beckman, DVM

Hy-Line International, Inc., Dallas Center, Iowa 

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