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October 2012
The next Pig Genetics Workshop will be held in Armidale on 24 and 25 October.

June 2011
Craig Lewis held a webinar on 1 June on the topic "Towards more uniform pig performance".

October 2010
AGBU held its biennial Pig Genetics Workshop.

September 2009
A pig seminar was held at the Roseworthy Campus of the University of Adelaide on Wednesday 30 September.

March 2009
PIGBLLUP Version 6.0 released

Pig Genetics Workshops

The Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit holds regular pig genetics workshops to demonstrate the latest PIGBLUP developments and present research findings. These workshops are held every 2 years in Armidale, NSW, Australia. PIGBLUP users from Australia and overseas have regularly attended these workshops to discuss a wide range of topics related to genetic improvement of pig production.

For more information on the 2010 Workshop click here.

Attending for the first time were overseas visitors Dr Scott Newman (PIC, USA), who discussed the application of mate selection and pig breeding programs, and Prof Max Rothschild (Iowa State University, USA), who outlined genetic and genomic technologies from A to Z. Prof Odd Vangen (Norway), presented a webinar on the effects of including CT in pig breeding programmes. A special emphasis of the workshop was on genetic improvement of sow lifetime performance. Other topics included iron content in pork, novel traits for piglet survival and carcase composition and discussions provided feedback about new R & D directions.

 

Papers presented at previous workshops can be viewed by following the links below.

Tables of contents


Topics covered

  1. Pig genetics – general
  2. Breeding objectives
  3. Genetic evaluations
  4. Proof of profit
  5. Molecular genetics
  6. Selection and mate allocation
  7. Genetics of reproductive traits of the sow
  8. Genetics of performance traits including feed intake and feed conversion ratio
  9. Genetics of carcase composition and meat quality traits
  10. Genetics of behaviour and conformation traits

For further information, please contact the PIGBLUP team (susanne.hermesch@removeme.une.edu.au)