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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.

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the European approval for its latest innovation in Animal Health: the MycoFLEX® Headspace bottle, a simple and practical way to mix the two pig vaccines Ingelvac CircoFLEX® and Ingelvac MycoFLEX® for their simultaneous application.

This advice is specific for the Tempo, Talent and Top Pi offspring.

2012 donation means support program has raised more than $4.7 million since 2008

With a world tour that visited 20 countries, the TOPIGS nutrition team has introduced the new feeding manuals for TOPIGS sows. This intensive knowledge distribution reached 700 feeding specialists in just 6 months.

The Board of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork has adopted welfare indicators to be assessed in all relevant projects.

Goal is to emphasize the role of the veterinarian in animal care.

Balanced management of parity groups promotes long-term herd profitability.

Yorkshire-based pig genetics company, ACMC, has established a new 350-sow nucleus multiplier unit at Fridaythorpe.

Proposals for genuinely innovative shorter term projects across the four research programs of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) are now invited.

The facility is Ecolab's third-largest in the world and the company's largest in the Asia Pacific region.

PIC, a division of Genus plc and the world’s leading swine genetics company, announces agreement with the Besun Food Group to partner in the operation of a 4,250 sow nucleus farm in China’s Shaanxi province.

The deal allows for more PIC Gene Transfer™ boars, PIC399 and PIC337, to enter Foremost’s Artificial Insemination stud to quickly contribute to their growing herd improvement program.

Prior to joining PIC, Dr. Kristensen was Head of Marketing and Sales, Animal Health for Ukraine & Belarus at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he directed key account sales and marketing efforts in the region.

Heat stress reduces quality of semen, warns Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company, ACMC.

DELACON has recently established new regional sales administrations for the Asia and Pacific area (ASPAC) and for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Pig producers could save nearly £9 per pig by improving their finishers’ feed efficiency by 0.54.

A surge of fast-food giants, pork producers, and grocers move to phase out gestation crates for pigs.