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As flu season swings into full gear, producers and those who work with pigs are reminded that it’s not too late to get a seasonal flu vaccination.

This week, keynote speaker Aidan Connolly, vice president of Alltech and associate professor of marketing at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland, addressed more than 1,200 Chinese feed industry, academic and political leaders at the 9th China Animal Husbandry and Feed Technology Economic Forum, held in Beijing.

Berkshire triticale was bred through the Pork CRC to be a high yielding grain with a higher digestible energy content than contemporary varieties.

USMEF support calls by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack for Russia to suspend these new measures and restore market access for U.S. beef and pork products.

Adequate gestation length and management promotes long-term pig health.

Within the Internationalization Program “Cátedra de Internacionalización” of the University of La Rioja, it took place the conference "Foreign Trade Aimed Towards Central and South America", with the outstanding participation of Produmix.

With a theme of “The Challenge of Change” the upcoming seminar will tackle the issues of most importance to producers and their industry.

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that one of its Directors – Mr. Nick Photiades – is stepping down from the Board of Directors.

Yorkshire pig farmer Ian Broumpton has scored a hat-trick by winning the Supreme Championship for the third time in succession with a pen of five cutter pigs at the Hull Market Christmas Show and Sale.

In these times of high feed prices one of the biggest drivers of financial efficiency is food conversion ratio.

For 17 years, he was the director of Varkens K.I Nederland, the leading Dutch AI organisation and sister company of TOPIGS. Before that he held various positions in the international pig genetics business.

When Agromek 2012 closed on Friday, the Exhibition had been attended by 45,248 visitors including 5,127 foreign guests and visitors.

October 2012, on invitation of the MOA (Ministry of Agriculture of China) Minitube International has organized a two-day long seminar in the boar station Kexinyuan in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province, South China.

Investment in the latest semen dosage counting technology will ensure all JSR semen products now offer customers even higher levels of consistency and far exceed existing industry audit standards.

The UK government and commercial organisations have signed an agreement pledging to achieve 100 per cent sourcing of ‘credibly certified sustainable palm oil’ by the end of 2015.

Cherkizovo Group launches a second production line for hams and deli products at the "Otechestvenniy product" meat processing plant in Pravdinsk in the Kaliningrad region.

Herrero, an agricultural systems analyst at ILRI, gave an up-to-date overview of ways the livestock sector in developing countries can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing global warming.

In collaboration with its distributor for Myanmar, Frontline Co. Ltd, BIOMIN Asia recently organised a “Nutritional Solutions” seminar in Taungoo, Bago State.

Chinese professionals had an outstanding presence, and their good knowledge of PRODUMIX brand is a proof of the expansion the company is gaining in the Asiatic giant.

Assuming all broilers and pigs in the world are fed DELACON products, up to 29 million tons CO2-equivalents per year could be eliminated from the environment.

Dutch-based food producer VION NV has announced that it has embarked on a process to sell its UK food businesses to concentrate on its core markets in the Netherlands and Germany and the development of its global ingredients business.

The changing of seasons may result in seasonal Vitamin D deficiency in sows.

Three new sector representatives have been elected to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) executive committee for three-year terms.