Press releases - News

The opening of a state-of-the-art premix facility in Binh Duong, Vietnam will take place on 2 October 2013.

Merck Animal Health is offering the first porcine circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) vaccine - Circumvent® PCV G2 - for use in pigs as early as 3 days of age.

From 10 - 13 September Nedap will present itself at SPACE 2013 in cooperation with its business partners Aco Funki (Hall 6, stand B20) and Agid (Hall 7, stand B22).

More than 1300 participants came to the 64th Annual Meeting of the EAAP (European Association of Animal Production) in Nantes (France), in the last days of August.

Invited by Lallemand Animal Nutrition China’s exclusive distributor Beijing Hi-Link International Biotechnology Inc., David Guillou gave lectures in 2 seminars in China.

Australia’s pork industry has embraced the benefits of on-farm biogas energy.

Danbred North America announces the addition of Caitlyn Abell, Ph.D., to its team.

Fancom introduces Greenline, a new name for the Fancom peripherals, which are an important part of our climate, feeding and biometric systems.

About 120 people attended this year’s Gordon Research Conference on Mycotoxins & Phycotoxins, held at the beautiful Stonehill College near Boston, USA.

Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings is offering a national commissioning service on all its new pig buildings.

A three-year study by ILRI and partners shows that farmers in Vietnam have low awareness of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that infects animals (including pigs) and humans (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew Nguyen).

BPEX has trialled three new slot reduction and closure techniques for concrete floors in pig pens. The results are now available in three factsheets for producers to either download or order.

TOPIGS Hellas is pleased to announce that Eurogene has become the new distributor of TOPIGS genetics in F.Y.R.O. Macedonia.

The research driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, in partnership with Taizhou China Medical City in Jiangsu Province, China, held the ground-breaking ceremony for a veterinary vaccine manufacturing plant at the China Medical City.

Decreasing sow lameness helps improve herd productivity and profitability through improved reproductive performance and longevity.

The Lower Saxonian equippers of pig houses, WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp, have developed the new self-catching pen SF3

Bayer is re-introducing trusted reproduction management products following the recent acquisition of Teva Animal Health.

Smithfield Foods announced today that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and will soon mail to shareholders of record the definitive proxy materials in connection with the previously announced definitive merger agreement with Shuanghui International Holdings Limited.

Zoetis affirms its commitment to finding a solution to help control the recent outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv). The devastating, costly virus has been positively identified in 17 states since April.

Ecolab (ECL) has been named to Forbes magazine's 2013 list of "The World's Most Innovative Companies," ranking 33rd out of 100 companies on the list that will appear in the Sept. 2 issue of Forbes.

Maple Leaf Foods (MFI: TSX) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International Inc. of Irving, Texas.

TOPIGS is pleased to announce the appointment of André Costa as General Manager of TOPIGS do Brasil with effect from 1 August 2013.

The pig production arm of the JSR Farming Group, a 4,000 sow operation producing 2000 pigs per week, has increased the dead weight of its slaughter pigs and cut its overall cost of production by 2.5% by switching to two new sire lines developed by JSR Genetics.

Feeding herd performance is far more important to a pig unit, financially, than litter performance.