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The chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development Committee reports the effort to complete a draft updated Pig Code of Practice for public release by June 1 is on target.

ITOCHU Corporation announced today that it has acquired a 33.4% stake in HyLife Group Holdings Ltd., one of Canada’s leading pork producers.

The FX Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production is an opportunity for the industry to recognize those individuals who have developed either original solutions to pork production challenges or creative uses of known technology.

A total of 49 grandparent sow line animals and 10 Talent boars were delivered to Geporbol (Genetica Porcina Boliviana).

The Spanish association that promotes top quality serrano ham abroad, Consorcio del Jamón Serrano Español, now has even more members thanks to the incorporation of four new companies: Embutidos España, Jamones El Castillo, Jamones Centelles and Julián Mairal.

PIC announces agreement with the Shennong Agricultural Group to jointly invest in the operation of a 1,000 sow Nucleus farm in China’s Yunnan province.

Invesa will launch RhemInvesaox premix in Thailand and will introduce its novelty Recofast.

JSR’s global breeding programme has seen its first litters born in China, signalling the spread of the company’s genetics into the most important market in the world.

Pig finishers should keep an eye on stocking densities, particularly as pigs reach heavier weights, warns Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company ACMC.

There is a combined production capacity of more than three million tons/year from all of its key manufacturing bases nationwide.

The Board of Directors of Swine Innovation Porc currently counts nine members, eight of which are continuing for a second term.

This new JV is for a 1,000 sow nucleus farm with Yunnan Shennong Agricultural Group Co. Ltd., the leading integrated pork producer in the Yunnan province.

South Australia’s pig industry will be supported by local research into sow and piglet housing, reproduction, welfare and other new initiatives under the new Southern Pork Alliance.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. said today that the company is well positioned to meet rising demand for ractopamine-free pork, following recent announcements that China and Russia will require third party certification that pork exports are ractopamine-free.

Ekoproduct Ltd has already bred TOPIGS genetics as a client for the last 3 years. The company owns a high health status, multiplying farm together with a brand new, modern AI station.

Veterinarians and farmers across the globe have reached the landmark of protecting one billion pigs from the potentially devastating effects of Porcine Circovirus Disease (PCVD) using Ingelvac CircoFLEX®

The World Congress of Dry-Cured Ham will take place for the first time in Portugal.

James Romp has joined Suffolk-based Quality Equipment as sales representative for the whole of the UK.

Economically priced, easy, fast: WEDA’s new training station imparts handling of demand feeding station.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. today announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to form a 50/50 joint venture with Kansas City Sausage Company, LLC, including its sister company, Pine Ridge Farms, LLC.

Ecoporc Shiga induces a high level of immunity against shigatoxin, produced by E coli bacteria which cause edema.

TOPIGS has reorganised its worldwide activities into three regions; Europe, the Americas and Asia/Pacific/Africa.

U.S. beef and pork exports set new value records in 2012, topping highs set in 2011, according to end-of-year statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).