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Healthy Hogs Seminar Slated for North Carolina

The Healthy Hogs Seminar is scheduled for Oct. 29, 2008 at Sampson Community College in Clinton, NC. The program starts with an 8:30 a.m. registration and concludes by 3:30 p.m.

On the morning program is discussion of a state pseudorabies swine surveillance plan for 2009, the ethics of conventional pig farming, which pigs must be euthanized and motivating the contract grower.

The afternoon sessions include managing a tractor trailer wreck, focusing on the essentials to improve reproduction and a ventilation workshop.

For more information, contact Morgan Morrow of North Carolina State University at morgan_morrow@ncsu.edu.

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