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Combating pre-weaning mortality: Set a goal
For today’s swine producer, efficiency is everything. It drives profitability and is a key success indicator if operations are to remain competitive in the current market. Because of this, the industry has come a long way in finding opportunities for improved efficiency – especially in the breeding herd.

Powerful new Dicam2 offers remote piggery control via smartphones and tablets
A powerful next generation of one of the pig industry’s most popular environmental control systems is being launched at the British Pig and Poultry Fair (Stoneleigh Park, 15th & 16th May).
DanBred establishing multiplier in Mexico

Semen Cardona will distribute with BactiBag® packaging
Semen Cardona is committed to one of the most advanced innovations in state-of-the-art packaging. This is BactiBag, recently created by IMV Technologies with the help on developement by Semen Cardona.

New technical online platform for farmers
Feedpreservation.com is a new technical online platform solely about preserving feed and forage.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific research advances PRRS and PED diagnostics
Presentations at ESPHM illustrate dedication to diagnostic improvements.

2nd WVA Animal Welfare Awards
The 2nd WVA Animal Welfare Awards supported by Ceva puts the welfare of animals’ center stage as 5 veterinarians from Brazil, Canada, China, Senegal and Sweden are rewarded for their outstanding work to protect and promote best practices in animal welfare.

APRIL advises pork research approvals
Among the successful APRIL proposals were very innovative projects on reducing antimicrobial resistance and better understanding the gut microbiome in animal health and performance, plus a couple on novel diagnostics and remote monitoring pig health.
Merck Animal Health adds consumer affairs expert to veterinary and consumer affairs team

Spotlight the future
Ceva to host Global Swine Webinar on Respiratory Diseases on May 8
Five million doses of Prevtec Microbia’s bivalent vaccine Coliprotec® F4/F18 Sold in the European Union

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Smithfield Foods Releases Animal Care section of 2017 Sustainability Report, new virtual reality video of hog operations
Starting today, Smithfield will issue its 17th Sustainability Report in segments organized by the pillars of its comprehensive sustainability program each week during the month of May.

Vietnam is one of the World's top pork consumption countries and is 2nd in Asia, only after China
Despite being the world’s 6th largest producer of pork and growing global demand, Vietnam exports less than 1% of its total production.

Weighing up pork production priorities
Australian producers were not alone in receiving less for their pork, with EU prices down 7.6% on 2017; US down 22% in the past month; China down 23% in the past five weeks and UK down 2.5% on 2017.

CPF eyes Vietnam as the potential countries for its businesses
Vietnam has a vital role on CPF growth, thanks to the domestic consumption demand and its export, which has expanded more than 20% compared to previous year, which was resulted from Vietnam having Free Trade Agreement with European countries and United States of America.

CPF announces a global policy on Animal Welfare
CPF has set a goal to replace individual gestation pens with group pens, a method that provides more relaxed environment. The practice will be manage both in Thai and overseas operations within 2025 and 2028 respectively.


First Tonisity distributor meeting in Bergamo, Italy
This three-day event was a brilliant opportunity for the Tonisity team to firstly meet with their wider distributor network across Europe and Asia but it also gave them the chance to hear feedback on how they can best implement new marketing and sales tactics for the next year.

Zinpro announces Russian language website launch
The additional language portal provides support for the company’s customers in Russia, CIS.
HKScan launches pork exports to China

Reducing production costs and securing profitability are the top management challenges for Europe’s farmers
DLG-Agrifuture Insights "Chart of the Month" for April focuses on European farmers’ management challenges. Tackling social acceptance is rated as the most important challenge by German farmers.

From greenhouse gas to carbon credits
Edwina Beveridge runs a mixed farming operation in New South Wales, Australia. At any given time, she has some 2,200 pigs on site - which adds up to a lot of methane. By investing in a methane digestion system, she now turns it into energy.

Pig face recognition - Artificial Intelligence revolution arrives to the pig farming
On 22 March, The world premiere of Yingzi Pig Face Recognition Technology was released by Yingzi Holding Co., Ltd in Guangzhou, China.

