Swine Species Symposium: Emerging Technologies in Swine Production

Chair(s)

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  Jay Johnson, PhD

  Research Leader
  USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit
  West Lafayette, Indiana

Presentations:

• 1:45 PM - 1:50 PM MT

  Swine Species Symposium Introduction
• 1:50 PM - 2:35 PM MT

  Does automated behavioral monitoring inevitably lead to improved pig welfare?
  

  Presenting Author: Janice M. Siegford, MS, PhD – Michigan State University
• 2:35 PM - 3:20 PM MT

  Leveraging big data analytics to improve disease surveillance and welfare in pig production
  

  Presenting Author: Guilherme J. M. Rosa – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Author: Tiago L. Passafaro – Zoetis
• 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM MT

  Swine Species Symposium Break
• 3:35 PM - 4:20 PM MT

  Swine precision nutrition: How computer vision can help
  

  Presenting Author: Isabella C. F. S. Condotta, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 4:20 PM - 5:05 PM MT

  Current and future state-of-the-art methods for assessing boar fertility
  

  Presenting Author: Karl Kerns – Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA