This afternoon Boehringer Ingelheim will be holding a “Flex Symposium.” I’ll be attending to conduct some interviews and take pictures. Our program includes: PCVAD Scientific Overview – Dr. Edgar Diaz Pig Performance with Ingelvac MycoFLEX® vs. Two-dose Vaccines – Dr. John Kolb Impact of PCV2 Vaccination on Subclinical PCVAD Cases in Canada, France and U.S. – Dr. Emest Sanford Qualifying …
Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar Slideshow
I’ve been learning new things about Flickr today. For example, they now supply an embed code for a slideshow of a set. Let’s take this one from the Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar. Now this is cool!
FLEXing Boehringer Ingelheim’s Muscle
One of the key people involved with the Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Seminar was Gary Robertson. He’s the brand manager for Ingelvac MycoFLEX. You can actually see him sitting in the back left part of this picture during the presentations. Gary says they’ve been very fortunate to obtain CircoFLEX in ’06, MycoFLEX in ’07 and just recently, Ingelvac CircoFLEX-MycoFLEX in …
Consider Alternative Feed/Energy Sources
A very important component of a swine herd management plan is nutrition. Boehringer Ingelheim’s Swine Health Seminar featured nutritional consultant, David Funderburke. He and his wife have their own business, working with large producers domestically and internationally. In his presentation, David said that producers need to apply the technology that’s available and “push the limits” so they can capture as …
Boehringer Ingelheim Team Building
You know that any company with national sales/technical support services looks at their folks as all “on the team.” According to Doug Nold (left), Boehringer Ingelheim has been team building. Doug has 32 years experience in agribusiness and joined the BI team recently. One of the reasons he says is because he likes their commitment to the industry which he …
Protecting Against Mycoplasma with Ingelvac MycoFLEX
Dr. John Kolb is a professional services veterinarian for Boehringer Ingelheim. He was on the program to talk about Ingelvac MycoFLEX. John says it’s a unique product designed to be a single dose member of the FLEX family. Because it’s part of the FLEX platform, he says it’s easy to combine with another product like CircoFLEX. This is due to …
Stick To Your Management Plan
In addition to pork producers, a number of veterinarians attended the Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar. I spoke with Dr. Randy Jones who has been in practice in eastern North Carolina for 23 years. I first asked him if he thought his local BI Rep, Dan Johnson, was doing a good job and he said “He does a great job.” …
Risk Management is Name of the Game in Swine
The numbers man on our program at the Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar was Dennis DiPietre. He specializes in consulting with the swine industry and is a “headliner” for SwineCast. Dennis was here to look at trends that are developing like the shifting global marketplace. He sees changes happening in the advantages producers have had in both the low cost …
Saturday Morning With BI
Participants in the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar had options today to play golf, go fishing or a couple of others. I chose fishing. Early this morning our first stop was netting some live bait before heading out off the beaches of Carolina Beach. We fished for several kinds of fish but what we caught in our boat was …
Extracurricular Activities at Swine Health Seminar
The Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar is about over for the day. We’re getting ready to break after all the presentations. I’ll have more of them in the coming days. As I mentioned earlier, this is a real family affair. One of the activities available was manicures and pedicures. I walked by the rooms where these were set up …