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The Quebec based Swine Development Centre or CDPQ, in partnership with the Saskatchewan based Prairie Swine Centre, is coordinating five Canadian Swine Health Board projects involving veterinarians and engineers from across Canada, aimed at improving the protection of Canadian swine farms from disease through the use of air filtration.

Norsvin and TOPIGS have integrated their activities in Poland.

In the same year that Genus subsidiary PIC showcases its first half-century of genetic improvement, it also pays tribute to the long-standing relationship with franchise partner, Iwatani Corporation of Japan.

Dutch-based food producer VION NV has reached an agreement for a management buy-out of its UK pork operations, securing around 4,000 jobs, subject to Competition Authority approval in Ireland.

For the third time herds using ACMC stock have received major awards at Porc D’or (‘Golden pig’ awards) at a Spanish pig industry ceremony attended by over 600 people in Madrid.

It is a tremendous challenge to reach a balance that is good for the animals, achievable by producers and sustainable for the future, in a way that also addresses market needs and expectations.

HiZox®, as a source of potentiated zinc oxide, was tested at low inclusion rate in comparison to the pharmacological dosage of the regular ZnO in piglet diets.

For January through October, U.S. pork exports were 3 percent ahead of last year’s record pace in volume (1.875 million mt) and 6 percent higher in value ($5.24 billion).

As flu season swings into full gear, producers and those who work with pigs are reminded that it’s not too late to get a seasonal flu vaccination.

This week, keynote speaker Aidan Connolly, vice president of Alltech and associate professor of marketing at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland, addressed more than 1,200 Chinese feed industry, academic and political leaders at the 9th China Animal Husbandry and Feed Technology Economic Forum, held in Beijing.

Berkshire triticale was bred through the Pork CRC to be a high yielding grain with a higher digestible energy content than contemporary varieties.

Adequate gestation length and management promotes long-term pig health.

USMEF support calls by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack for Russia to suspend these new measures and restore market access for U.S. beef and pork products.

Within the Internationalization Program “Cátedra de Internacionalización” of the University of La Rioja, it took place the conference "Foreign Trade Aimed Towards Central and South America", with the outstanding participation of Produmix.

With a theme of “The Challenge of Change” the upcoming seminar will tackle the issues of most importance to producers and their industry.

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that one of its Directors – Mr. Nick Photiades – is stepping down from the Board of Directors.

Yorkshire pig farmer Ian Broumpton has scored a hat-trick by winning the Supreme Championship for the third time in succession with a pen of five cutter pigs at the Hull Market Christmas Show and Sale.

In these times of high feed prices one of the biggest drivers of financial efficiency is food conversion ratio.

For 17 years, he was the director of Varkens K.I Nederland, the leading Dutch AI organisation and sister company of TOPIGS. Before that he held various positions in the international pig genetics business.

When Agromek 2012 closed on Friday, the Exhibition had been attended by 45,248 visitors including 5,127 foreign guests and visitors.

October 2012, on invitation of the MOA (Ministry of Agriculture of China) Minitube International has organized a two-day long seminar in the boar station Kexinyuan in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province, South China.

Investment in the latest semen dosage counting technology will ensure all JSR semen products now offer customers even higher levels of consistency and far exceed existing industry audit standards.

The UK government and commercial organisations have signed an agreement pledging to achieve 100 per cent sourcing of ‘credibly certified sustainable palm oil’ by the end of 2015.