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People who need to be recertified as Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus® Advisors under the National Pork Board's PQA Plus® program are invited to attend a session set for April 19 in Ames.

TOPIGS has imported 550 more top breeding pigs into China. This is the third import in three months.

At FIMA 2012 AGRAGEX will carry out a large activity plan including its annual General Board and an important inward commercial mission which will bring 67 companies from 28 countries.

Iowa pork producers are invited to learn more about pig health and growth numbers, and get updates on ventilation management and disease research projects at the 2012 Iowa Pork Regional Conferences scheduled for March 6 - 9. The Iowa Pork Industry Center (IPIC), Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA), and Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach cosponsor this annual series at four sites around the state.

From 7 to 9 February 2012 in Moscow - Russia’s leading trade exhibition for modern animal husbandry and breeding continues to grow - more than 40 side event.

In 1955, a group in the United Kingdom called the Wallingford Pig Study Group was concerned that the traditional purebred breeders were not producing the right pig for future markets.

We still see numerous farm reports where slap-markings are recorded by the abattoir or by BPHS (British Pig Health Scheme) vets as illegible.

Agromek 2012 will be just as large as the Agromek 2010 exhibition.

TOPIGS Philippines recently imported 1111 top SPF genetics from Canada to set up a new nucleus farm for San Miguel Foods, Inc. in the Isabela province of the country.

The plan, taken as part of the business’s worldwide strategic plan and blueprint for significant growth, will result in centralizing most Commercial, Marketing and Corporate Headquarter functions in Summit.

David Alan Palfenier, 55, who has been President of ConAgra Foods’ Consumer Foods Snacks and International business since April 2010, will replace Mayr Bonassi as the head of Seara as of February.

Meriden Animal Health recently presented their flagship product Orego-Stim and the Fusion Feed Safety Range at two seminars in Malaysia.

With Nador it is possible to select and use finisher boars that produce offspring with 40% less boar taint.

Deal will provide Elanco with feed enzyme products; underscores commitment to animal productivity.

A new set of training manuals for pig farmers is now available. The manuals inform poor rural pig farmers in developing countries how to ‘intensify’ their production, using lessons gathered from a research-for-development project in India. Among other recommendations, the manuals offer ways of improving smallholder pig farming, including basic veterinary care, and pork production and marketing.

The winner of the 2012 Oxford Farming Conference (OFC)/ Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) Practice with Science Award sponsored by AB Agri, has been won by PiGIS, a pig grading information system established in Northern Ireland (NI) by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and CAFRE.

Cold fronts are forecast for February bringing foundering feet to farmers in milking parlours and on quad bikes.

He will provide leadership to the IMPROVEST team and be responsible for outreach to customers, retailers and industry stakeholders.

With confidence returning to the Scottish pig industry, an Aberdeenshire pig farmer has invested £50,000 in new solid-floored straw-based finishing house to produce 1,000 plus pigs a year at Kingshornie, Inverbervie.

C. Larry Pope, Smithfield Foods' president and chief executive officer, was recently recognized as a Top 100 thought leader in trustworthy business behavior by Trust Across America.

Pork producers now have a worry-free solution to help them continue their track record of producing safe, wholesome pork.

East Africa’s growing human population and rapid urbanization are creating new opportunities for small-scale farmers to make money from pig farming.

Consumer packaged foods giant inks multiyear partnership with NASCAR's first family.