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To close the session, USMEF past chairman Roel Andriessen, who chaired the search committee charged with finding and recommending candidates for the position of USMEF president, explained the extensive process that led the committee to identify Halstrom as its leading candidate.

The seminar was dedicated to heat stress in swine, trying to highlight the origins and the consequences of the phenomenon.

Indonesia has witnessed a major boom in demand for livestock products such as red meat, milk, eggs and beef and cattle.

Watch your pigs and adjust your equipment to support optimal finishing in summer heat.

SPACE 2017 will be held from Tuesday 12 September to Friday 15 September at the Rennes Exhibition Centre.

A new report now available from independent publisher AgriContent Ltd provides the English pig sector with a detailed look at clean pig production in the country from 2014 to 2016 on a postcode-by-postcode and regional basis.

Most of the live pig traders are vertically integrated, performing several functions in the value chain like transportation, pig slaughter and pork retail under single ownership. Pig farmers are largely concentrated at the production node which is largely characterized by spot markets and informal relationships.

Pig farmers want to be able to properly inform consumers about the well-being of their livestock and the safety of food products but can sometimes struggle to find the space to share their story.

Osborne USA will be showcasing the ACCU-ARM^® Survey Scale™, an automated pig sorting scale for large pen finishing.

This year’s business seminars will outline new ways to manage swine herds from birth to market, as well as review technologies that can help producers stay competitive in today’s fast-paced world.

The 24-hour-a-day monitoring of feed and water consumption, which can be reviewed live on the farm office computer can pick up trends and has even been used to predict disease outbreaks.

ProPhorce Valerins are glycerol esters of valeric acid to be used in feed to promote animal performance.

The motto of this edition "Challenges of future in swine reproduction" implied sharing the latest novelties with a view to the horizon of the sector.

Trials in the initial phase indicated there are endogenous losses of Ca which must be taken into account by using STTD values, to avoid under-estimation of the STTD of Ca in ingredients and allow formulation of mixed diets.

Scientific posters presented at ESPHM offer diagnostic advancements.

Building its expertise to help producers improve swine management, Nedap hires the perfect fit.

Pork CRC Chairman Dennis Mutton and CEO Roger Campbell met with West Australian researchers and industry representatives on Monday, May 1 to workshop opportunities and ideas for innovative R&D as Pork CRC transitions to Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL), which commenced in November 2016.