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Close to 100 U.S. swine producers and industry leaders recently traveled to Purina Animal Nutrition LLC’s Swine VIP event in St. Louis, Mo., to discuss the latest research in sow nutrition and management.

Decisions for sustainable reduction of antibiotic use must focus on expert competence and be geared to maintaining and/or improving animal health.

On 13 November Vyacheslav Shport, the Governor of the Khabarovsk Region, and Alexander Yats, the Head of the Lazo local District Administration, visited the Lipetsk region and toured Cherkizovo’s Lipetskmyasoprom pork cluster.

JSR received two awards for their collaborative work with the University of Kent and ‘The Bridge’ IVF Centre in London, for their work in to pig embryo generation and transportation.

Fonseca is a weaned-pig specialist at New Fashion Pork in Alpha, Minn., where he directly oversees 25,000 pigs through the wean-to-finish phase.

Genomic Selection is a technique method developed by Hypor’s team of esteemed research scientists that have not only developed an innovative solution for the pig market, but have addressed the industry approach to genetic selection.

Irish-born entrepreneur Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech, has received the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement for strengthening economic ties between the United States and Ireland.

This is the first time in the UK that a retailer has had direct contracts with livestock farmers alone, rather than suppliers and processors too.

The move to group-sow housing — following Europe’s partial ban on sow stalls in January — doesn’t have to mean a drop in herd productivity.

38 Spanish companies take part in EuroTier 2012 coordinated by AGRAGEX and with the support of ICEX (Spanish Foreign Trade Institute).