"The Organization reserves the right to make amendments to this program"

Program
10th November - Workshop Workshop A - Ventilation Joan Escobet Riu - Marco i Collell S.L. Duration: 1 day Workshop B - - Restructuring of a swine farm to comply with the Standards of Animal Welfare Coordinator: Rui Toms Technical vision: Carlos Martnez Dvila OPP Group Corporate vision: Nuno Correia Agrupalto - Agrupamento de Produtores Agropecurios, S.A. Duration: day to 1 day 12
th

11th November Friday 09.15-09.30 Open section Section I Chair Jos Santos Pires da Costa 09.30-10.00 Physiology of Reproduction Jos Jlio Alfaro Cardoso UTL/FMV The physiology of sperm production and reproductive management of boars for fertility. Robert Knox University of Illinois Roundtable discussion Section I BREAK Rui Baptista Memorial Lecture African Swine Fever Carlos Martins UTL/FMV

November - Saturday Oral Communications

09.00-10.00

Chair Francisco Carmo Reis 10.00-10.45 Lino Conde Memorial Lecture Usefulness of meteorological data in a breeding program Carla Martins 10.45-11.15 BREAK Section V Chair Joo Bengala Freire UTL/ISA 11.15-12.00 Segregated parity structure in sow farms to capture nutrition, management and health opportunities Rafael Cabrera Huvepharma The undesirable effects of some mycotoxins on swine reproduction Alberto Gimeno
Consultant in Food Mycotoxicology

10.00-10.45

10.45-11.00 11.00-11.30 11.30-12.15

12.00-12.30

Section II 12.30-13.00 Chair Jos Santos Pires da Costa 12.15-13.00Hyerprolificacy in Sows - where will we go next? Mike Varley BPEX 13.00-13.15 13.15-14.30Section III Chair Maria da Conceio Peleteiro - UTL/FMV Sow and boar necropsies Massimo Castagnaro Universit degli Studi di Padova 16.00-16.15 15.15-16.00 Infertility Slaughterhouse and in situ controls Victoria Falceto Universidade Zaragoza Roundtable discussion Section III 16.15-16.45 15.15-16.00 Roundtable discussion Section II 14.30-15.15 Lunch Optimizing breeding management in a competitive world George Foxcroft Universidade Alberta Group gestation systems: Practical Guidelines Carlos Martnez Dvila Veterinary Consultant / OPP Group Roundtable discussion Section VI BREAK 13.00-14.30 Section VI Chair Pedro Lopes Roundtable discussion Section V Lunch

14.30-15.15 -

16.00-16.15

Section VII Chair Rui Sales Lus Agrupalto 16.45-17.30 Artificial insemination, control of oestrus and seasonal infertility Guillermo Ramis Departamento de Produccin Animal Universidad de Murcia Analysis of production data, control of critical points Manuel Toledo Castillo Departamento Veterinrio Juan Jimnez Garcia Roundtable discussion Section VII Congress closure

16.15-16.45 BREAK Section IV Chair Miguel Fevereiro - LNIV 16.45.17.30 Emerging and Re-emerging Sow Diseases Rui Perestrelo Vieira Universidade Vasco da Gama Roundtable discussion Section IV

17.30-18.15

17.30-17.45

20.00 -

Congress dinner 18.15-18.30 18.30

"The Organization reserves the right to make amendments to this program"