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Boehringer Ingelheim inaugurates its new integrated Asian Veterinary Research & Development Centre
HKScan and Qinglian Food boosting the Finnish pork export in Asia’s biggest food exhibition in Shanghai, China
China is the world’s largest pork market and Chinese are consuming more and more imported pork. HKScan and its Chinese partner, Qinglian Food, participate currently in the Asia´s biggest food exhibition SIAL in Shanghai, China and introduce the joint venture Nordic Lotus Food Co to customers.
Great success of Magapor's ITM International Meeting
With the presence of Joaquin Olona, Agriculture Counselor of the Government of Aragon, the ITM Meeting that Magapor organizes every year started on the 25th of April.
Perstorp’s Feed Acid Review offers new insights into the future of the feed industry
The review covers major factors which will impact the industry in the coming years.
It gathers insights from every part of the agri industry, from farmers to professors specializing in animal gut health.
Keeping pigs in their comfort zone
A new method of comparing the environmental performance of pig houses has been devised by Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings.

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MSD Animal Health Highlights Broad Swine Portfolio at the 10th ESPHM
Combating pre-weaning mortality: Set a goal
For today’s swine producer, efficiency is everything. It drives profitability and is a key success indicator if operations are to remain competitive in the current market. Because of this, the industry has come a long way in finding opportunities for improved efficiency – especially in the breeding herd.
Powerful new Dicam2 offers remote piggery control via smartphones and tablets
A powerful next generation of one of the pig industry’s most popular environmental control systems is being launched at the British Pig and Poultry Fair (Stoneleigh Park, 15th & 16th May).
DanBred establishing multiplier in Mexico
Semen Cardona will distribute with BactiBag® packaging
Semen Cardona is committed to one of the most advanced innovations in state-of-the-art packaging. This is BactiBag, recently created by IMV Technologies with the help on developement by Semen Cardona.
New technical online platform for farmers
Feedpreservation.com is a new technical online platform solely about preserving feed and forage.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific research advances PRRS and PED diagnostics
Presentations at ESPHM illustrate dedication to diagnostic improvements.
2nd WVA Animal Welfare Awards
The 2nd WVA Animal Welfare Awards supported by Ceva puts the welfare of animals’ center stage as 5 veterinarians from Brazil, Canada, China, Senegal and Sweden are rewarded for their outstanding work to protect and promote best practices in animal welfare.
APRIL advises pork research approvals
Among the successful APRIL proposals were very innovative projects on reducing antimicrobial resistance and better understanding the gut microbiome in animal health and performance, plus a couple on novel diagnostics and remote monitoring pig health.
Merck Animal Health adds consumer affairs expert to veterinary and consumer affairs team
Spotlight the future
Ceva to host Global Swine Webinar on Respiratory Diseases on May 8
Five million doses of Prevtec Microbia’s bivalent vaccine Coliprotec® F4/F18 Sold in the European Union

Iowa State University 2018 Animal Industry Report now available online
Smithfield Foods Releases Animal Care section of 2017 Sustainability Report, new virtual reality video of hog operations
Starting today, Smithfield will issue its 17th Sustainability Report in segments organized by the pillars of its comprehensive sustainability program each week during the month of May.
Vietnam is one of the World's top pork consumption countries and is 2nd in Asia, only after China
Despite being the world’s 6th largest producer of pork and growing global demand, Vietnam exports less than 1% of its total production.
Weighing up pork production priorities
Australian producers were not alone in receiving less for their pork, with EU prices down 7.6% on 2017; US down 22% in the past month; China down 23% in the past five weeks and UK down 2.5% on 2017.
CPF eyes Vietnam as the potential countries for its businesses
Vietnam has a vital role on CPF growth, thanks to the domestic consumption demand and its export, which has expanded more than 20% compared to previous year, which was resulted from Vietnam having Free Trade Agreement with European countries and United States of America.
CPF announces a global policy on Animal Welfare
CPF has set a goal to replace individual gestation pens with group pens, a method that provides more relaxed environment. The practice will be manage both in Thai and overseas operations within 2025 and 2028 respectively.

