Aidan O'Toole's 6 Month View of the Feed and Pig Market Well Received at Parkland's Veterinary Conference
11th April 2011
Devenish Nutrition’s Aidan O’Toole, a Senior Pig Nutritionist with over 17 years experience in the pig industry gave a talk at the Parkland’s Veterinary Group’s “Pigs R Us” Conference on Wednesday 6th April 2011.
The talk, on ‘Feed and Pig Markets: Where Next?’ was extremely well received by the 200 strong crowd.
The presentation focused on Feed and Pig Prices and the predicted change in prices over the next 6 months. To view the presentation, please click here. Please note that the prices were correct at the time of the presentation, but given volatility in markets are subject to change and will be out of date within a number of months.
The picture above shows the organisers of the event with the 4 speakers. Top row (left to right)
Karen McConnell, David Mulligan, John Grant BVSC MRCVS, Rosanna Wregor BVMS MRCVS (all Parkland Veterinary Group)
Bottom row (left to right) Aidan O’Toole (Devenish Nutrition), Prof Patrick Wall (UCD), Poul Henning Rathkjen (Boehringer Ingelheim) John Barber (John Barber Nutrition)
The event also had 30 companies from various sectors of the pig industry exhibiting their key product lines. The picture below shows Devenish Nutrition’s staff at the event. (From left to right) Dr Marian Scott, Research Nutritionist, Dr Charlotte Stewart, Research Assistant, Simon Caughey, Export and marketing Administrator and Keith Boland, Pig Sales (NI).
Photography by Norman Bell