The Allen D. Leman Swine Conference is an annual educational event for the global swine industry. It is internationally acclaimed for bringing science-driven solutions to the complex challenges facing the industry. Each year hundreds of participants from over 20 countries, including swine veterinarians and other professionals working in swine production and animal health management, attend the Leman Swine Conference. This year the conference is moving on-line and will take place Sept. 19-22.

The conference will include more keynote speakers than in previous years. The conference themes include markets, the impact of COVID and lessons learned, how to prepare for emerging diseases, and how to enhance your operation's value-added strategy.

"This year more than ever we felt strongly that we needed to have the Leman Conference. In May, we made the decision to move to an on-line format given the uncertainties we were anticipating due to COVID-19. If the Leman Conference was just presentations by experts, it would be relatively easy to create. The Leman Conference has always been much more, it is a gathering of a broad slice of the industry, from inputs to production to processing, with presentations that provoke further discussions, in hallways during the meeting and at gatherings beyond the meeting. It attempts to be always cognizant of the current circumstances of the industry, presenting diverse responses to challenges including novel diseases, labor shortages and now the disruptions in marketing challenges due to the various effects of Covid-19," said professor Montse Torremorell, DVM, PhD, chair of the Leman Conference planning team in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Veterinary Population Medicine.

"Our aim is to create that online platform, welcoming not only our customary guests but a wider community of both presenters and participants who will have the opportunity to join us from their preferred location around the world. We hope that the flexibility of the platform we have chosen will allow an even broader participation in the conference and we hope that the community created by this conference will continue to meet the broadening of the swine industry. For once, we will have many talks translated to Spanish and Portuguese," Torremorell added.

From the 70+ talks and events we have prepared for you, here are the highlights:

Main program (Sept 21-22)

Keynotes:

Myrl Mortenson, David Wade, and Tara Donovan, Hanor

Michelle Kromm, Vice President of Animal Health and Welfare of Jennie-O and veterinarian for Hormel Foods

Gordon Spronk, Pipestone System and Clayton Johnson, Carthage Veterinary Services

Sessions:

Pre-conference program (Sept 19-20)

And don’t miss the fun social events, engaging sessions and surprises!

For more information and registration, visit: https://ccaps.umn.edu/allen-d-leman-swine-conference