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Norfolk pig farmer Stuart Mayhew has won a laptop computer and a year’s free subscription to PigCom — a windows-based pig management software package — in a prize worth £1,500.

Pfizer Animal Health is accepting research proposals for the PRRS Innovation Research Grant. The program will allocate $100,000 for porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS) research.

Cooperl Arc Atlantique, a major group of French pig breeders accounting for 20% of the whole pig production in France, announced it will propose plans designed to completely stop the castration of piglets by March 2013.

The 23rd Annual JSR Conference was hailed a success by delegates who were educated and entertained by a line-up of top industry leaders.

FSIS intends to announce in the Federal Register, changes it will make in its procedures for Listeria monocytogenes product sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

Forum will support sales and growth of DELACON products, including BIOSTRONG® for poultry, and FRESTA® F, the world’s first and only phytogenic product approved by the European Union as a zootechnical additive for piglets.

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the beta launch of its first social game on Facebook, called Syrum. Syrum will be a new and evolving platform for the research-driven pharmaceutical company to inspire and educate in a changing digital world.

Pfizer Animal Health named Julie Menard, Agr., DVM, of Ange-Gardien, Quebec, the 2012 Allen D. Leman Science in Practice Award Winner.

The Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) will be holding its fourth annual Canadian Swine Health Forum at The Fairmont Winnipeg, in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 17th & 18th, 2012.

Acquisition enables Bayer HealthCare to expand companion animal and food animal product lines.

Atlantic Premium Brands Ltd. announced, with the support of The Humane Society of the United States, plans to eliminate controversial pig “gestation crates” from its supply chain.

DELACON will contribute a poster presentation of its 2 leading products for poultry and pig, Biostrong 510 and Fresta F.

Recent analytical surveys showed that one fourth of pig kidneys in Thailand were above the regulatory limit in cadmium concentration.

There has never been a better time to become involved in Australia’s pork industry, with the innovative, well resourced CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) now offering honours and postgraduate awards, which pay up to $38,500 per year.

The sessions will be taught by ISU animal science and veterinary medicine faculty members who are certified PQA Plus trainers.

ProPhorce™ SR is a novel form of butyric acid with specific release throughout the digestive tract, with all of the well-known benefits of butyric acid but none of its smell issues.

SowBridge is designed to improve the understanding and application of various tools and techniques involved in daily care of the breeding herd and piglets.

Markus Dedl, CEO of DELACON Biotechnik, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Elek as Managing Director of Delacon Hungary.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce that Dr Yannig Le Treut, DVM, has been appointed as General Manager of the company, replacing Mr Olivier Clech, former General Manager of Lallemand Animal Nutrition and Vice President of the Specialty Division.

Yorkshire-based international pig genetics company, ACMC, is expecting sales of its AC1 gilt and grandparent stock to increase substantially next year after the new welfare codes come into force in mainland Europe.

OPKO Health, Inc. today announced its acquisition of Farmadiet Group Holding, S.L., a Barcelona-based company currently engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and veterinary products.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has today announced that sample testing as part of the ‘DNA certified’ Programme for pigmeat has begun, which will expose misleading labelling and provide an assurance for producers and consumers on the origin of pigmeat.

A Nottinghamshire herd has seen increased productivity and performance thanks to cutting-edge genetic technology from JSR.

Danisco Animal Nutrition, a business segment of DuPont Industrial Biosciences, has announced the appointment of Bill Gade as new U.S. key account manager.