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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.

A weak area on many pig farms, particularly in cold weather, can be where all the doses needed for the morning’s services are taken out and left by the pen.

Full focus on synergies and a much closer cooperation between the companies of the group shall empower Skiold to become one of the leading suppliers internationally of technical solutions for grain handling, feed production, and pig production.

Ufac-UK has appointed First Fil-Bio I/E Corporation, as their sole distributor in the Philippines.

With high-priced feed accounting for the major cost of production, it is important to test the females in all lines, as well as the males, since they contribute 50 per cent of the genetics to the next generation.

PIC has completed delivery of 1,071 high health breeding pigs from the USA to key account Gvardia in the Stavropol Region of Russia.

Pig producers packed a ‘Securing the Future’ seminar in Cookstown to discuss how best they to take those opportunities 2012 and the years beyond.

As guest speaker at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar for Ulster pig producers Jim Power warned that the euro crisis and global recession will impact on UK agriculture even though this is one of the few industries still growing across the British Isles.

Pig and pig feed price fluctuations are largely beyond the control of producers, who can however keep on improving livestock performance, not least at the weaner stage.

Feed prices may well drift back this spring at a time when pig prices are likely to firm producers at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar were told by Aidan O’Toole of Devenish Nutrition.