Page 3 of articles about production in Press releases

An initiative started in 2009 to help pig farmers improve their performance, using developments in IT and monitoring expertise, has come to fruition with the simultaneous launch of two major projects with a total funding of £459,000.

A new set of training manuals for pig farmers is now available. The manuals inform poor rural pig farmers in developing countries how to ‘intensify’ their production, using lessons gathered from a research-for-development project in India. Among other recommendations, the manuals offer ways of improving smallholder pig farming, including basic veterinary care, and pork production and marketing.

East Africa’s growing human population and rapid urbanization are creating new opportunities for small-scale farmers to make money from pig farming.

Livestock accounting program of ABH Miratorg has fixed 1 Millionth mark. As on the 26th of October 2011, the heads quantity in Holding pig complexes for one-time keeping was total 1 001 419 animals.

The company had signed with the provincial government of Jilin with an investment totaling RMB 7,900 million that will consist of farming 3 million broilers, 1 million swine and 100 million chickens for meat per year.

TOPIGS has purchased a new nucleus farm in Canada named Windy Acres near the village Malonton in Northern Manitoba. This purchase will provide TOPIGS with better breeding, better genetics and better numbers of terminal sires to supply. The farm houses 750 sows, 220 boars and 4000 fattening pigs.

In a constantly changing industry, Iowa pork producer Greg Carlson has identified the importance of convenient and effective continuing education. That’s why he has subscribed for two years to the distance education series SowBridge. This innovative program, coordinated by the Iowa Pork Industry Center (IPIC) at Iowa State University (ISU), provides Carlson and pork producers around the world with timely and accurate information in a highly efficient manner.

Iowa pork producers are invited to learn more about pig health and growth numbers, and get updates on ventilation management and disease research projects at the 2011 Iowa Pork Regional Conferences scheduled for early March.

Cherkizovo OJSC, one of Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producers, today issues a trading update ahead of its results for the year ended 31 December 2010, which will be reported in March 2011.

VION Food Netherlands will not be issuing prices today (Monday 17 January 2011). This applies to both the pig price and the prices of meat cuts.

Australia's pork industry has welcomed the announcement by Federal Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr, that the Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has been funded for a further eight years.

Pig finishers should now be thinking about their marketing strategy over Christmas. With high feed costs and lower pig prices, it is important to optimise returns by planning ahead.

Expert insights into the changes and challenges facing pig production in China and Europe have been presented to an international audience at the EuroTier exhibition held in Hanover, Germany 16 – 19 November 2010.

Theft on farms is increasing. Pig rustling is no exception and is not confined to free-range animals. Security of housed animals has become a big worry for pig farmers.

Youth and students gather at Young Farmers Day

The Pork Commission Meeting was presided by Geert Janssen, Executive Secretary, who considered that demographic growth was a great opportunity for the sector, which should take advantage of such factor "in a sustainable way".