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Technical Session 1:  
Tuesday Morning, June 30th
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • ​Demonstration of Efficient Mass Swine Carcass Management Using Tub Grinder Mixer Wagons by Dale Rozeboom

  • Assessing above ground burial as a swine mortality management strategy in Canada by Vanessa Matten

  • Comparison of Deep Burial and Trench Composting for Degradation of Market-Weight Pig Carcasses by Teng Lim

  • AVMA Humane Endings: An Update by Cia Johnson

  • One Health Insights into Endemic African Swine Fever as an Environmental Challenge: A Mixed-Methods Study of Veterinarian and Hog Raiser Perspectives by Jesper Chia-Hui Hsu

  • Improving the efficiency of cattle handling for mass depopulation procedures in animal health emergencies by Dr. Shearer 

  • Frozen Assets: Effects of staging conditions on swine carcass degradation under freeze-thaw conditions by Zoe Ehlers

  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Virus Elimination of Infected Material with Silage Bags During an Avian Influenza Outbreak by Dr Nicholas Edelman

  • HPAI as an Example of the Importance for Wildlife Biosecurity by David Marks

  • An Evaluation Forced Aeration Composting Complimented with a Grinder/Mixer System for managing Swine, Poultry and Dairy Mortality by Bobby Clark 

  • Enhancing Biosecurity in Swine Operations: Assessing viral environmental contamination and investigating wildlife interactions on mortality management structures of swine farms by Rafael Medeiros de Avila Melo 

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Technical Session 2:  
Tuesday Afternoon, June 30th
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • Dairy Mortality Composting by Margaret Ross

  • Fate of Euthanasia Agents (Ketamine and Xylazine) in an Active Mortality Compost Windrow by Mark King

  • Remote Monitoring and Digital Data Collection of Composting Piles with Wildlife by Sashti Balasundaram 

  • The AVMA Veterinary First Responder Certificate Program by Dr. Hess

  • Evaluating ambient alkaline hydrolysis combined with anaerobic digestion for disposal of cattle hides and poultry mortalities by Asma Sabir

  • Accelerating Swine Mortality Composting with Compost Turners: A Proof of Concept by Gary Flory

  • Evaluating On-Site Static Pile Composting as an Alternative Method for Mammalian Mortality Management by Jodi Aceves

Technical Session 3: 
Wednesday Morning, July 1st 
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • Composting of Chronic Wasting Disease: A Case study examining prion deactivation potential by Alex Thomas

  • Chronic Wasting Disease in Captive Red Deer by Carissa Braun

  • Optimizing on-farm routine animal mortality composting for pathogen reduction and biosecurity: Broilers Part 1 by Josh Payne

  • Optimizing on-farm routine animal mortality composting for pathogen reduction and biosecurity: Broilers Part 2 by Zoe Ehlers

  • Practical Disposal Methods for Shell Eggs during a High Consequence Disease Response by Jean Bonhotal

  • Aerosolization of New Castle Virus Particles During Pre-compost Carcass Breakdown and Mixing Using a Vertical Mixer by Zac Williams

  • Investigating the Environmental Impact of Composting Livestock and Poultry by Dr Michael Payne 

  • Ultra-Rapid Composting for Animal Mortality Management: Field Observations from a Heat- and Enzyme-Assisted System Demonstrated in Brazil by Gary Flory

  • Impacts of Swine Carcass Preparation and Carbon Material on Effectiveness Of Shallow Burial with Carbon(SBC) by Bob Peer

  • Manual to measured: proven remote compost monitoring to scale by Doug Crawford

  • Pilot Project for continuing education and advancement of Compost SMEs by Lucia Hunt

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