PIC increases its boar semen supply chain with the expansion of Riufred GTC, the largest boar stud in Europe
The expansion will have a new building that will have capacity for 264 additional boars.
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The expansion will have a new building that will have capacity for 264 additional boars.
The Argentine National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa) conducted the sanitary controls and authorized the importation of the first shipment of breeding pigs from Canada.
Hendrix Genetics, global multi-species animal breeding company and BHZP, Germany's largest pig breeding company, have reached an agreement to extend their contract to start production of db.77 boars in Spain in order to fulfill the growing demand of the db.77 boars in the Spanish and Portuguese markets.
This article covers the main semen- or boar-related factors that can cause regular returns to estrus.
In the first part of this article series we addressed how to correctly stimulate oestrus. In this article we continue talking with swine reproduction specialist, Javier Gil Pascual, focusing on heat detection.
The two companies will build a 1,000-head boar stud in China which will be the largest boar stud in the world.
Top breeder organizations Hendrix Genetics (Hypor) and German-based BHZP sign agreement, improving market concentration and collaboration.
In a series of articles, swine reproduction and insemination specialist, Javier Gil Pascual, addresses the key aspects of oestrus stimulation and detection, and insemination.
Only the best workers are able to detect sows in heat without a boar…
Management of dead semen, data analysis, vaccinations,... These are some examples that we will deal with in the following 6 case studies.