Mutton added to Pork CRC board
Dennis Mutton and Sandra Di Blasio were elected to the Board of Directors of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork at its 2012 annual general meeting in Melbourne.
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Baysinger joins PIC Health Assurance Team
Dr. Baysinger will be responsible for implementation of the health program in PIC’s genetic dissemination system and work with customers to improve the performance of PIC products.
Banff Pork Seminar 2013 Targets "The Challenge of Change"
The 2013 Banff Pork Seminar is set to go January 15 to 17, 2013, with the theme of “The Challenge of Change.”
Alltech Makes Three-Pointer at World Mycotoxin Forum-IUPAC
The conference brought together some of the greatest leaders in the field of mycotoxin management with the ultimate goal to bring new, innovative solutions to the increasing challenge of mycotoxins.
EuroTier reports record attendance figures
Around 160,000 animal husbandry farmers and experts and 38,000 international visitors.
Smithfield Foods Announces Repurchase of COFCO Shares
Smithfield Foods, Inc. today announced that it has purchased 7.0 million shares of its common stock from COFCO Corporation, China's largest national agricultural trading and processing company.
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We are ..The five things to take away from the Alltech Pig Solutions seminar
How can the pig industry stay profitable in the face of high feed costs, increased government regulations and consumer demands intensifying?
Global pig nutrition experts envisage redefining pig nutrition at the Alltech China Pig Nutritional Meeting
Chinese swine production had increased by 22% in the last 10 years making China by far the largest pig producer in the world.
EuroTier 2012: The world's largest exhibition for animal husbandry
Record participation with 2,445 exhibitors from 51 countries.
Producers discuss latest research at Purina Animal Nutrition Center
Close to 100 U.S. swine producers and industry leaders recently traveled to Purina Animal Nutrition LLC’s Swine VIP event in St. Louis, Mo., to discuss the latest research in sow nutrition and management.
Animal health: key prerequisite for reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock husbandry
Decisions for sustainable reduction of antibiotic use must focus on expert competence and be geared to maintaining and/or improving animal health.
Vyacheslav Shport, Governor of the Khabarovsk Region, visited Cherkizovo Group’s pork cluster in the Lipetsk region
On 13 November Vyacheslav Shport, the Governor of the Khabarovsk Region, and Alexander Yats, the Head of the Lazo local District Administration, visited the Lipetsk region and toured Cherkizovo’s Lipetskmyasoprom pork cluster.
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Success for JSR at University of Kent Innovation Awards
JSR received two awards for their collaborative work with the University of Kent and ‘The Bridge’ IVF Centre in London, for their work in to pig embryo generation and transportation.
Attention to details is key
Fonseca is a weaned-pig specialist at New Fashion Pork in Alpha, Minn., where he directly oversees 25,000 pigs through the wean-to-finish phase.
Hypor moves into a new era of genomic selection
Genomic Selection is a technique method developed by Hypor’s team of esteemed research scientists that have not only developed an innovative solution for the pig market, but have addressed the industry approach to genetic selection.
Alltech founder Dr. Pearse Lyons receives award for connecting Irish and American Business
Irish-born entrepreneur Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech, has received the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement for strengthening economic ties between the United States and Ireland.
Tesco announces £25 million investment in British farming
This is the first time in the UK that a retailer has had direct contracts with livestock farmers alone, rather than suppliers and processors too.
Productivity need not suffer with group sow housing
The move to group-sow housing — following Europe’s partial ban on sow stalls in January — doesn’t have to mean a drop in herd productivity.
The Spanish livestock breeding equipment industry strengthens its position at EuroTier 2012
38 Spanish companies take part in EuroTier 2012 coordinated by AGRAGEX and with the support of ICEX (Spanish Foreign Trade Institute).
Baker is new Iowa Pork Industry Center Director
Baker will serve as interim IPIC director for two years, and intends to use his experience and expertise in the veterinary medicine field to help guide the center’s work during that time.
New recruitment service for global agri-food businesses
The company has undergone considerable growth over the past two years and is moving into this field to help maintain its position as a leading training and development business in the food, agribusiness and biotechnology sectors.
Hermitage Italia establish new high health terminal boar nucleus unit for the Italian market
The unit is stocked with 130 Large White and 30 Duroc sows.
India’s booming livestock sector: On the cusp?–Or on a knife edge?
A partnership dialogue organized by the International Livestock Research Institute and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research on livestock, research and development was held yesterday in New Delhi.
New feeder acts as “extra stockman”
Good design, combined with modern materials which lower cost, are features of a brand new feeder being launched by Quality Equipment at the EuroTier.