Swine Days (Journées de la Recherche Porcine)

The "Journées de la Recherche Porcine" (Swine Days), co-organized annually by IFIP and INRAE since 50 years, are used to provide quickly the results of the applied research alongside of players of the swine sector. This congress dedicated to swine gather each year more than 350 attendees: engineers of R&D from the swine sector's companies, zoological technicians, nutritionists, genetists, veterinarians, economists, French and foreign searchers, teachers, journalists… About 100 puclications are presented each year on these days. More than 40 as oral presentations and as well as forward-looking on current pig events: economy, animal health, livestock handling and welfare management, environment, reproduction, genetics, quality of products… These communications are from different French organizations: INRAE (11 departments of research), IFIP, ANSES, Chamber of Agriculture, ARVALIS, ENV, … as well as different foreign organizations: Spain (IRTA), Belgian (University), Canada (University of agribusiness food)…