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

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.

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.

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.

The program, launched earlier this year, closes for entries on 31st July and offers recent graduates a truly international and unique experience with successful candidates going into future managerial and leadership positions within Alltech.

The animals were on route to Hubei Jinxu JSR Breeding Limited, the joint venture between JSR and Chinese pig producers Hubei COFCo, to create a brand new Nucleus herd.

At its June meeting, the Board of Directors of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork approved $2.7 million worth of second round R&D funding for 2012-2013.

PIC is pleased to announce the continued acceleration of genetic improvement by successfully developing and routinely implementing imputation of 60K SNP genotypes for nucleus selection candidates.

JSR Genetics, the leading international pig genetics company, has made strong inroads into the expanding Asian market by securing two new highly experienced agents, in Vietnam and Thailand.

When working to meet feed efficiency goals, McManus evaluates particle size of the diet, ration waste and replacement rates.

Sarah Sleight has been appointed customer services assistant by specialists feed manufacturer, Ufac-UK

Markus Dedl, CEO of DELACON, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gernot Ortmann as Head of Communications.