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Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) has honored several of its facilities and employees for their successful sustainability efforts during fiscal year 2013 through a number of innovative environmental projects.

The pig industry in Argentina is moving forward. Here too – partly motivated by concerns for animal welbeing – newly built sow houses will be equipped with electronic sow feeding stations.

Extremely hot weather can pose problems on pig farms. Producers should particularly monitor temperatures in their AI storage cabinets and water flow rates, says Paul Thompson, veterinary adviser to pig-breeding company ACMC.

Consolidated sales of the Ceva Group reached €310m in the first 6 months of 2013, up by 2%, 4.2% on the previous year at a constant perimeter and exchange rates.

Ceva Santé Animale, a global veterinary group based in Aquitaine, France (Libourne) and Sichuan Hengtong Animal Pharmacy Co., a veterinary company in Sichuan (Neijiang, China), have signed an international partnership agreement

Quality Equipment has strengthened its sales and marketing departments with two new appointments, Bill Diaper and Henry Stark.

Also this year Fancom has won the French Innov’Space Award. We received the two-star award for the Fancom Pig Cough Monitor, the audio analysis system for early registration of health abnormalities.

ILDEX Myanmar 2013 will be organized from 12 – 14 September, 2013 at Tatmadaw Exhibition Hall, Yangon, Myanmar.

JSR Genetics has delivered its first shipment of pigs to Nigeria, as part of a supply agreement established with the Institute of Agriculture Research & Training (IAR&T), Ibadan.

Data Presented at Fifth European Symposium of Porcine Health Management in Scotland.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) announced today that the required waiting period has expired under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR") in connection with the Company's previously announced transaction with Shuanghui International Holdings Limited.

Ecolab introduces the Advantis® FC Cleaning Program, a high-foaming, chlorinated alkaline cleaner specially formulated for use with reduced temperature water.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) announced that C. Larry Pope, president and chief executive officer of Smithfield, will testify today before the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to review the benefits of the Shuanghui-Smithfield transaction for U.S. farmers and agriculture, while reaffirming the commitment to upholding the highest food safety standards.

With many producers taking finished pigs to the upper extremes of their contract weight, accurate weighing of pigs is essential to minimise the risk of pigs being out of the weight-range tolerance.

The fifth edition of Lallemand Animal Nutrition’s S. c. boulardii technical meeting was brought back to Denmark, one of the world’s biggest pig producers.

Parties have operated successful joint-ventures in hog breeding in China, and have established regular information and technology exchanges in general animal breeding and animal husbandry.

Nutreco confirms that it is considering the strategic position of these activities within its group.

Purina Animal Nutrition introduces the Heat Stress Manager for Sows app for smart phones.

In addition to poultry, feed, and beef, the 2014 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) is expanding its focus to the international pork industry.

VIV is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the 2014 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, the United States.

In a joint venture to improve the sustainability of island nation São Tomé and Principe’s food supply, the country’s government and the government of Taiwan have signed up to a new partnership with JSR Genetics, which will see 56 Landrace and Large White gilts and boars flown out of the UK in July.

BPEX’s ‘Finisher Pig Buildings Design and Build – a blueprint for English farms’ is now available for producers to order.

For the first time in over 15 years, live breeding pigs have been delivered to continental Europe from the United States.

One 747 to China, one 747 to Japan, one 747 to Russia; an unprecedented volume in swine genetics of registered purebred boars and gilts.