The training packages are also based on the same systematic approach of the Health, Reproduction and Productivity Solutions program. They are the most advanced training packages available in Australia and South-east Asia, which provide solutions to disease, reproductive performance, productivity and a great deal of producer support programs.

The training packages available include:

       •  Maximising Herd Fertility which is 8 hrs duration and covers:
                •  Intensive gilt management.
                • Time of mating or AI.
                • Reducing implantation losses.
                • Boars factors resulting in increased return rates.
                • Causes of abortion and mummification.
                • Seasonal infertility - Light and reproduction.
                • Feeding for maximum litter size.

       •  Delivering 25 pigs per sow per year which 8 to 9 hrs duration and           covers:
                •  Delivering 25 pigs per sow per year.
                • Buildings and management.
                • Pre-farrowing activities.
                • Farrowing.
                • Common problems and diseases of sows.
                • Litter activities.
                • Common problems and diseases of piglets.
                • Nutritional management of lactation.
                • Human factors - Success or failure.

       •  Marketing no less than 22 pigs per sow per year which is 8 hrs duration and           covers:
                •  Pre-weaning mortality less than 8%.
                • Pre-weaning and early post-weaning feeding and management.
                • Common post-weaning problems and diseases (4 to 10 weeks of age).
                • Common grower and finishers problems and diseases.
                • Effect of environmental variables in health and production e.g. stocking                   density, air space, air quality and hygiene.

       •  Marketing 99% prime pigs which is 8 hrs duration and comprehends:
                •  The effect of disease on growth rate and cost of production.
                • The effect of disease on backfat and income loss.
                • Efficient use of additives for improving performance.
                • Efficient use of additives for reducing backfat.
                • Proper sorting and weighting in order to maximise A1 grading.
                • What to do with runts and culls.
                • Avoiding residues.

       •  Biosecurity and Disease eradication programs (Success or failure?) (8 hrs)                 •  What is biosecurity.
                •  How to establish a good biosecurity program?
                • Recognising and understanding risk factors.
                • Putting measurements in place.
                • Personnel training.
                • Disease eradication methods:
                • Caesarean
                • Hysterectomies
                • Snatch Farrowing
                • Medicated Early Weaning
                • Segregated Early Weaning
                • Modified Segregated Early Weaning
                • Depopulation-Repopulation
                • Swiss depopulation

These comprehensive training packages are the result of more than 12 years of teaching experience at technical, undergraduate and post-graduate level and have been designed to increase the understanding of all the management techniques that occur on a day-to-day basis on a farm and also to encourage discussion and participation. These training programs can be delivered to individual farms or groups of farms.