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Iron deficiency could be reducing the performance of piglets post-weaning, despite the routine use of iron injections and feed supplements.

Successful companies don’t react to change; they drive it. With that in mind, Hypor recently opened the doors on a new state-of-the-art facility in Sichamps, France. In the process, they offered a window to the future of pork production and demonstrated that for Hypor and its clients, the future is now. The renovation to modernize and expand this 400-sow unit was an expensive one, but the return on investment is significant.

Eight months without a piggery fan working. Easy to spot? No! Fans are often set to work in sequence and may be idle for pre-determined periods – which was why an East Anglian farmer failed to notice it. However, this fault was picked up by professional analysis of the data provided by the farm’s monitoring system.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition was proud to support this scientific event as sponsor and speaker.

“Miratorg”, Russia's major meat producer, increased pork production by 1% to 230 thousand tons of pork in slaughter weight for January-September 2017.

Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL) today made its first call for research proposals to markedly enhance the competiveness and sustainability of the Australasian pork industry.

Investments in Athens, GA and St. Joseph, MO will enable increased capacity for companion animal and livestock vaccines.

The symposium is part of the Merck Animal Health commitment to helping deliver a safe, affordable and sustainable food supply to meet the world’s growing demand for animal protein.

Positive sales growth has seen animal nutrition technology company AB Vista move to number two in phytase worldwide over the past year.

Every year the partners of the fund: ING, KLM, MKB-Nederland en Ministry of Foreign Affairs choose ten winners who have the support of these organizations in collaboration with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, for one year, to spread their wings to different parts of the world.

When you’re the best at what you do, how can you improve on that? One way is to do it in more places for more clients, and that’s exactly what Hypor is doing by partnering with Nugeporc in the Dominican Republic.

A year on from the Poultry Symposium in São Paulo (Brazil), Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care hosted a highly successful symposium dedicated to swine and poultry in Rome (Italy) on 24 and 25 October. Nearly 300 participants from 45 countries attended the event, which focused on the central theme of reducing antibiotic use and embracing the opportunities presented by a global market that is evolving rapidly on this topical issue.

The MSD Animal Health and the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) are proud to announce that 36 students have been selected for the 2017 Veterinary Student Scholarship Program.

If it’s true that experience is the best teacher, the new Managing Director of Hendrix Genetics’ Business Unit Swine (Hypor) goes to the head of the class. Following the appointment that Raf Beeren becomes Managing Director of Hendrix Genetics’ Business Unit Turkeys, Hypor is pleased to appoint Luis Prieto Garcia as Managing Director of the Business Unit Swine.

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health sponsors the €75,000 research award programme in Europe both to encourage further development of practical methods for controlling PRRS and in order to recognise scientific excellence in this field.

Although approaching its wind-up phase, the Cooperative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork had another very productive year in 2016/17, in terms of research outcomes and raising the capability of researchers supporting the industry, including industry itself taking on employees through the Pork CRC’s acclaimed industry placement program.

The prize was awarded in Brussels on Wednesday 29 November 2017 and the competition was organised by the joint organisation Copa Cogeca.

AB Vista’s Technical Services Team has recently been expanded, as part of the company’s strategy to strengthen feed mill support to customers in the Americas.

The first of its kind, the Pig Knowledge Hub from Alltech contains advice, tools and resources on all aspects of pig production.

The conference is organised by Marketing Centre “Expokhleb” and Russian Veterinary Association, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

We are excited to announce Genesus has purchased Porc-Ex France.

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) welcomes Ms. Sherrie Webb as Associate Editor of the Journal of Swine Health and Production (JSHAP).