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It is with great pleasure that Excentials B.V. announces the appointment of Dr. Hector Navarro based in Mexico and Dr. Luiz Gustvo Rómbola based in Brazil as Regional Technical Managers.

Researchers from the Animal Breeding and Genomics Group at Wageningen University and TOPIGS recently sequenced the full genome of 70 TOPIGS pigs. As a result of the sequencing more than 10 million new SNPs have been identified.

Cargill’s animal nutrition business today announced that Dr. Brooke Humphrey has been named global technology director for pork at the innovation campus in Elk River

Recent heatwave conditions have highlighted problems resulting from wide temperature fluctuations in finishing houses, says Tim Miller, environmental specialist with ARM Buildings.

The directors and staff of SPACE pay tribute to their President, Jean-Michel Lemetayer, who died suddenly on 31 July.

Slatted floors in piggeries in areas subject to high wear, particularly adjacent to feeders, can become dangerous and non-compliant with EU regulations regarding slat gaps.

In 2007, Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) announced an industry-leading goal of phasing out individual gestation stalls in favor of group housing for pregnant sows at all company-owned sow farms by 2017.

From May 22nd till 24th 2013, the University College and University of Ghent, as well as the Society of Mycotoxin Research organized the 35th Mycotoxin Workshop.

Global animal health and nutrition company Alltech will present 10 abstracts at this year's Poultry Science Association meeting in San Diego, Calif., July 22- 25.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) has honored several of its facilities and employees for their successful sustainability efforts during fiscal year 2013 through a number of innovative environmental projects.

The pig industry in Argentina is moving forward. Here too – partly motivated by concerns for animal welbeing – newly built sow houses will be equipped with electronic sow feeding stations.

Extremely hot weather can pose problems on pig farms. Producers should particularly monitor temperatures in their AI storage cabinets and water flow rates, says Paul Thompson, veterinary adviser to pig-breeding company ACMC.

Consolidated sales of the Ceva Group reached €310m in the first 6 months of 2013, up by 2%, 4.2% on the previous year at a constant perimeter and exchange rates.

Ceva Santé Animale, a global veterinary group based in Aquitaine, France (Libourne) and Sichuan Hengtong Animal Pharmacy Co., a veterinary company in Sichuan (Neijiang, China), have signed an international partnership agreement

Quality Equipment has strengthened its sales and marketing departments with two new appointments, Bill Diaper and Henry Stark.

Also this year Fancom has won the French Innov’Space Award. We received the two-star award for the Fancom Pig Cough Monitor, the audio analysis system for early registration of health abnormalities.