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Handley, 57, was most recently senior executive vice president and president of Global Food & Beverage and Asia Pacific Latin America for Ecolab Inc.

Norfolk pig farmer Stuart Mayhew has won a laptop computer and a year’s free subscription to PigCom — a windows-based pig management software package — in a prize worth £1,500.

Pfizer Animal Health is accepting research proposals for the PRRS Innovation Research Grant. The program will allocate $100,000 for porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS) research.

Cooperl Arc Atlantique, a major group of French pig breeders accounting for 20% of the whole pig production in France, announced it will propose plans designed to completely stop the castration of piglets by March 2013.

The 23rd Annual JSR Conference was hailed a success by delegates who were educated and entertained by a line-up of top industry leaders.

Forum will support sales and growth of DELACON products, including BIOSTRONG® for poultry, and FRESTA® F, the world’s first and only phytogenic product approved by the European Union as a zootechnical additive for piglets.

Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the beta launch of its first social game on Facebook, called Syrum. Syrum will be a new and evolving platform for the research-driven pharmaceutical company to inspire and educate in a changing digital world.

Pfizer Animal Health named Julie Menard, Agr., DVM, of Ange-Gardien, Quebec, the 2012 Allen D. Leman Science in Practice Award Winner.

The Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) will be holding its fourth annual Canadian Swine Health Forum at The Fairmont Winnipeg, in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 17th & 18th, 2012.

Acquisition enables Bayer HealthCare to expand companion animal and food animal product lines.

DELACON will contribute a poster presentation of its 2 leading products for poultry and pig, Biostrong 510 and Fresta F.

Recent analytical surveys showed that one fourth of pig kidneys in Thailand were above the regulatory limit in cadmium concentration.

There has never been a better time to become involved in Australia’s pork industry, with the innovative, well resourced CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) now offering honours and postgraduate awards, which pay up to $38,500 per year.

The sessions will be taught by ISU animal science and veterinary medicine faculty members who are certified PQA Plus trainers.

ProPhorce™ SR is a novel form of butyric acid with specific release throughout the digestive tract, with all of the well-known benefits of butyric acid but none of its smell issues.

SowBridge is designed to improve the understanding and application of various tools and techniques involved in daily care of the breeding herd and piglets.