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The EU Commission has granted Danisco Animal Nutrition authorisation for the use of its heat stable xylanase (Danisco Xylanase) in wheat-based feed for piglets and pigs for fattening.

The people of Iowa have a special connection with Japan dating back more than 50 years. When two typhoons devastated the Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi in 1959, Iowans stepped forward to help rebuild the region’s hog industry by donating 35 hogs and 1,500 tons of corn to feed them.

OJSC Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producers, is pleased to announce the launch of operations at the meat processing plant in the Kaliningrad region acquired in 2010.

An important anniversary in the history of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) has been marked at a special international pig veterinary satellite symposium held in Barcelona, Spain in June 2011 as part of the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases. In 2011, this meeting heard, it is 15 years since the name PMWS was first proposed by Canadian investigators Ted Clark and John Harding for the novel wasting disease of growing pigs that they were observing in herds in Western Canada

Ensuring Australian pork is a high integrity meat that is welfare optimal, environmentally responsible, safe and nutritious is the focus of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork.

Last 26th May, Javier Velasco, councilor of Science, Technology and University from the Aragonese Government, opened this international discussion forum for porcine reproduction agents that gathered more than 150 AIC specialists from over 16 countries.

Cargill has opened a new animal feed facility in Efremov, Russia. The facility has the capacity to produce 50,000 tonnes of swine and poultry feed products and will operate under the LNB® brand in Russia. The new operation forms part of Cargill’s industrial complex in Efremov, some 330 km south of Moscow.

As one of the largest corporate acquisitions in Vietnam, the deal represents a unique opportunity for CPP to acquire a controlling stake in a market leader and expand into one of the fastest growing feed and farming markets in Southeast Asia.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has introduced BacuCheck™, a simple ELISA test for confirmation of vaccination status with PORCILIS® PCV of piglets against porcine circovirus type 2. The announcement was made today during a dedicated symposium at the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases that currently takes place in Barcelona (Spain).

Hans Olijslagers has been appointed as the new Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Pigture Group. He will assume his responsibilities with effect from 1 September 2011.

U.S. pork and beef exports slowed slightly in April when compared to the all-time record highs of the previous month, but still performed well above last year’s pace. April pork exports reached 181,109 metric tons valued at $487.8 million – up 16 percent in volume and 22 percent in value over last year.

Zhongpin Inc., a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that Zhongpin will further expand into north China by building a new production facility in Tangshan city, Hebei province, east of Beijing.

Consumer demand is increasing the need for transparency across the pork supply chain. To help promote the importance of pig welfare at slaughter, RL Consulting has developed a new, online pig welfare training course.

Danisco Animal Nutrition has launched Axtra XB – a new feed enzyme product designed to give improved feed cost savings and excellent performance for pigs and poultry from mixed grain diets.

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Despite huge advances in technology in the last 15 years, stockmen and women still have the most influence in determining the success or failure of ventilation systems in piggeries, Hugh Crabtree, managing director of Berkshire-based Farmex told a meeting of the Pig Veterinary Society at Newcastle Upon Tyne.