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ITOCHU Corporation announced today that it has acquired a 33.4% stake (5 billion Japanese Yen scale) in HyLife Group Holdings Ltd., one of Canada’s leading pork producers.

Against stiff international competition, British pig-breeding company ACMC has won an order to supply genetically-advanced pigs to the Georgia, the strategically-important country where Europe meets Asia.

The system includes automatic liquid and dry weighing with operator displays utilising touch screen technologies.

Sow nutrition and management can help producers meet birth weight benchmarks.

The impact of the 2012 drought – which continues into 2013 – cannot be minimized. An estimated 80 percent of U.S. agricultural land was affected, according to USDA reports.

The global leader in swine genetics has announced the successful completion of a series of exports from North America to Vietnam to populate two new multiplication units and an AI facility.

Nick Bird a director and co-owner of Reading-based control and monitoring specialists, Farmex Ltd, died, suddenly, from a heart condition on 13th January 2013, aged 60.

Located south of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba on University of Manitoba lands, the Farm & Food Discovery Centre includes a public interpretive facility covering all aspects of agricultural food production including grain and crop production and animal agriculture.

TOPIGS has found several SNPs which explain genetic variation in litter birthweight and litter uniformity and can be used to breed sows that farrow large, heavy and uniform litters.

Staff at Southburn-based JSR are celebrating after the company was awarded the prestigious Investors in People Gold Standard.

siMMin™ also modelizes the zinc concentration of pig wastes, which is of particular value when they are used as fertilisers.

After several years of falling production of pigs for slaughter in Denmark, Danish Crown now plans to help its owners invest in new buildings and in converting sow stalls.

Feed conversion rate (FCR) has a huge influence on financial efficiency.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that at the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems.

EU has banned the use of stalls for sows throughout most of their pregnancy from the beginning of the New Year most European countries are not yet compliant.

The event was first international platform for the livestock and fisheries industries in that country and was well supported by the local livestock and fisheries federations.

After an initial, quick evaluation of FIGAP / VIV Mexico, VIV plans to tighten its associations with the primary production sectors poultry, pigs and dairy in that country.

The 23- stop tour, taking place from Feb.12- March 1, will encourage attendees to stretch beyond conventional practices and explore how the latest technological developments can move the agriculture industry forward today.

Cargill’s animal nutrition and premix business, Provimi, has announced an investment of around U.S. $20 million in South Africa.

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.