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Sweet smell of success for boars

23-Dec-2009
Pork CRC supported 4th year animal science honours student at Western Australia’s Murdoch University, Amy Lealiifano, has found that vaccinating boars for the second time with Improvac close to a fortnight before slaughter effectively controls boar taint, while also not blowing out fat levels.

Atria invests in pig farming in Russia

22-Dec-2009
Atria Plc has signed a shareholders' agreement with the Danish company AS Dan Invest concerning pig production in Russia. Atria will have a 26 % stake in the Russian company OOO Dan Invest, which is the owner of two pig farms: one in Krasnodar and one in Tambov.

JSR in the Ukraine

09-Dec-2009
The UK-based international pig breeding company JSR Genetics Ltd have secured an agreement to supply two of the Ukraine’s largest pig producers with high-health breeding stock.

COGECA elects Paolo Bruni as new president

04-Dec-2009
EU leaders from the EU Agricultural Co-operatives Confederation COGECA today unanimously elected Paolo BRUNI as the new President for the period 2010 – 2012. He will succeed Gert VAN DIJK whose term-in-office expires at the end of the year.