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Experienced pig nutritionist Geoff Handley of Highspec Rural Services credits the recent push by Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (Pork CRC) to implement a national performance benchmarking program for motivating higher production levels in most of the 10 Queensland farms he consults to.

Welfare will continue to be a big issue in the pig industry and genetic selection for improved efficiency and ethics are not necessarily antagonistic to ethical production. Genetic selection can improve welfare and increase production ethically, Ed Sutcliffe told a Yorkshire conference organised by international pig-breeding company ACMC.

Maple Leaf Foods announced today that it has entered into a new four year Cdn$800 million revolving credit facility with a syndicate of Canadian, U.S. and international institutions.

From 18 to 20 May 2011, over 30 companies will bring the latest technologies and biogas management to Chinese visitors in Qingdao · More than 200 to attend the 2nd International Bio-Energy Conference on 19 May 2011

As part of the transaction to acquire Mosselprom, Cherkizovo Group has paid $42.1 mln in cash from the Group’s own funds. Given these funds have already been disbursed, the Group has amended the text of its announcement under ‘Terms of Transaction’. The original text stated “the remaining $42.1 mln will be paid in cash”, while the amended text states “the remaining $42.1 mln has been paid in cash” – this is the only revision to the announcement.

The Board of Directors of Maple Leaf Foods today announced with great sadness the death of its Chairman Wallace McCain, who passed away at the age of 81 after a lengthy struggle with pancreatic cancer.

On May 10 2011, VION has acquired the German company LARU (Langensiepen und Ruckebier), based in Bottrop.

Ontario Pork is promoting on-farm biosecurity with the appointment of a coordinator to provide technical support at the provincial level for the Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) National Biosecurity Farm Training program.

Pig farms with TOPIGS sows weaned an average of 28.1 piglets per sow in 2010. The top 10% of farms achieved 30.9 weaned piglets per sow per year. These conclusions are taken from the technical results of 748 Dutch farms with a total of almost 337,000 sows.

The third Merial Forum ‘Update on Pig Production and PCVD’, held in Malta, was the occasion of the formal launch of the piglet indication of CIRCOVAC® in the EU. Over 200 delegates from Europe and beyond attended lectures presenting clinical results from Europe, Asia and South America after piglet, sow, or piglet-plus-sow vaccination with CIRCOVAC, Merial's PCV2 vaccine.

Time for strong leadership and a united approach in order for the industry to make key decisions on PAP, and capitalise on consumers’ openness to learn about GM, were the key findings from the headline debate at this year’s Pig & Poultry LIVE, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, on 11 May.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announces today that it is introducing PORCILIS® AR-T DF, an inactivated vaccine against progressive atrophic rhinitis in piglets with a new adjuvant associated with fewer injection site reactions.

PIC (part of Genus plc) has signed a franchise agreement with Elite Groep bv to deliver PIC’s genetic improvement to the Dutch market.

DLG Trendmonitor points to a surge in business optimism, the highest since Spring 2008

Pig producers intent on surviving the current pig crisis could save themselves thousands of pounds by utilising a little knowledge, according to Matthew Curtis, managing director of ACMC.

Pig producers in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire are the winners of two tonnes of feed in a Pfizer Enteric Disease Competition run in conjunction with BPEX two tonne sow initiative.