report from the sustainable development and research committee presenters: rick bergmann & mike...

Report from the

Sustainable Development and Research Committee

Presenters: Rick Bergmann & Mike Teillet April 9, 2014

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Activity Summary:

Committee allocated $395,000 for hog industry

research in 2013:• $95,000 to the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative

(MLMMI)• $100,000 to the University of Manitoba (U of M)• $75,000 to the Prairie Swine Centre (PSC)• $80,000 to Swine-Innovation-Porc (SIP) the National Swine Research

Cluster)• $10,000 to the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium

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Activity Summary, Cont’d…

• An additional $20,000 was allocated

in 2013 to the Bruce D Campbell Farm

Education Centre at the U of M’s Glen Lea Research Station at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE), for a total of $920,000 over the last decade.

• Similar amounts have been allocated for 2014, with a greater amount being shifted to SIP.

Activity Summary, Cont’d…

This means that since 1999, Manitoba Pork

has contributed a total of almost $8.5 million to independent, third party, swine-related research and institutional development.

• It is estimated that Manitoba Pork’s $8.5 million has been leveraged into at least $25 million in funding for over 100 swine-related research projects over the last dozen years.

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A partial list of research projects your money

has funded in whole or in part:

• Nutrient management planning for sow operations using extant and new feed consumption models and manure analysis (MLMMI, MRAC, U of M: E Kebreab)

• Applying manure to defined management zones

using precision farming techniques (MLMMI, MRAC,

Agra-Gold Consulting & Farmer's Edge Precision

Consulting)

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A partial list of research projects your money has funded in whole or in part, Cont’d…

• Evaluation of a modular, interior-mounted bio-filter

(MLMMI, MRAC, U of M: D Mann, Q. Zhang & L. Connor)

• Economic assessment of the new environment regulations

for the pig industry in Manitoba (MLMMI, U of M: D. Flaten, E.

Salvano, C. Grant, G. Johnson, J. Mann)

• Forms of phosphorus in different manures and their impact on

phosphorus runoff and leaching losses from manure amended

soils (MLMMI, MRAC, U of M: D Flaten, D Kumaragamage)

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• Efficiency of buffer strips in the Manitoba landscape as a best

management practice (MLMMI, MRAC, ECOMatters: S Sheppard)

• Sow longevity (U of M: L Conner, G Johnson,

M Nyachoti & B Kemp)

• Transportation of hogs (Prairie Swine Centre, U of M: H Gonyou,

N Lewis, T Widowski, C Dewey, L Faucitano, T Crowe, R Bergeron)

• Regulation of farrowing by time of feeding (U of M: L Conner,

M Nyachoti & M Sheridan)

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• Utilizing a settling tank for solid liquid separation

of hog manure (MRAC – L Slevinsky, G Plohman,

G Racz)

• Towards anti-biotic free feeding programs for piglets: The role of

dietary nucleotides (NSERC, U of M: C Nyachoti)

• Development of a dispersion based setback distance guidelines for

odours in Manitoba (MLMMI, U of M: Q Zhang)

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• Evaluation of Manure processing (liquid- solid separation) technologies in Manitoba conditions (MLMMI, PAMI: L Grieger)

• Phosphorus balance in Manitoba by municipality (MLMMI, U of M: D Brewin, W Akinremi)

• Group sow barn conversion project (MRAC, U of M: L Conner, Q Zhang)

• What to do and what not to do about phosphorous in agro-Manitoba – the science (ECOMatters: S Sheppard)

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• Long term sustainable nutrient management for manure applied to crops (ongoing, MRAC, U of M, D Flaten)

• Sow housing: risk factors & lameness, productivity & longevity in group & individually housed sows (SIP, U of M, AAFC, L Conners, N Devillers)

• Evaluation & development of standards for swine production systems (SIP, PSC, L whittington, B Predicala)

• Novel swine feeding programs to enhance competitiveness & pork differentiation: the Cdn feed & pork value chain (SIP, U of A, U of Guelph, U of S, R Zijlstra, K deLange, E Beltranena, et al)

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• Utilization of processed hog manure separation products in Manitoba (MRAC, U of M: M Tenuta)

• Electrostatic space charge system for imporving barn air quality & preventing airborne transmission of PRRS (MRAC, U of M: Q Zhang)

• Nitrate & phosphorus movement and accumulation from liquid vs solid manure in cropping systems (MRAC, U of M: W Akinremi)

• And many more....

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Finding out about these Research Projects

The results of all research projects are available through the MLMMI website, MRAC’s website (now called the Prairie Improvement Network), the U of M’s (Ag) Website and of course through links on Manitoba Pork’s Website.

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Canadian Swine Research &

Development Cluster (SIP)

• In May of 2010, Federal Minister of Agriculture (Gerry Ritz) announced $9.6 million in federal funding under Growing Forward, for a new swine research ‘cluster’ until April of 2013.

• A national swine cluster board was formed, now called Swine Innovation Porc (SIP). MPC is a member.

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Swine-Innovation-Porc (SIP)

Canadian Swine Research & Development Cluster, Cont’d…

• 14 major swine research projects from across Canada were funded, with an additional industry allocation of $2.2 million, for a total of almost $12 million. These project have now all wound down (several of which were mentioned above)

• During 2012-13, the SIP board established national research priorities, put out a call for research proposals from across Canada, and is currently entering into the final stages of signing final agreements with researchers and the Federal Government under GF II (2014 to 2018) which we anticipate will formally get underway within a few weeks.

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