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Agricultural engineer, Fernando Garcilópez Pérez, has been appointed by Danisco Animal Nutrition to the role of Business Manager. Veterinarian and marketer, Ms Viviana Schroeder, has been appointed as Latin American Marketing Manager for Danisco Animal Nutrition.

Scientists at the Department of Agriculture and Food in Western Australia are close to developing a new rapid computerised screening tool for pork producers to measure protein quality in imported soybean meal.

Rubinum Animal Health, the manufacturer of probiotic Toyocerin has appointed Delta Agrivet Commercial (DACI) as their Philippine distributor.

As part of its Commitment to Veterinarians, Pfizer Animal Health is donating $50 for each swine veterinarian who recently completed an online presentation about how to protect against the most current strains of swine influenza virus (SIV). The total amount raised was $6,300.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that it completed the sale of its hog production facility located in Dalhart, Texas to Cargill, Inc. for approximately $33 million.

Dr Bob Stock has recently been appointed as Senior Key Account Manager, USA, with Danisco Animal Nutrition and Dr Sven Gensler has been appointed as Market Intelligence and Intellectual Property Asset Manager at Danisco Animal Nutrition

TOPIGS has linked the emerging technology of genomic selection to Pigbase, its enormous databank. Pigbase contains phenotypic information from almost 23 million pigs.

Space is fully booked at the Feedtech-Croptech presentation, the brand new sector at VIV Russia 2011.

Opening a production location in Asia is part of Perstorp’s plan to increase its presence on the Asian feed additives market. Marc Kinjet has been appointed as Business Development Manager Asia to oversee continued growth.

With the appointment of L.A Top Genetics as distributor, pig farmers on Cyprus get access to the high level genetic material of TOPIGS as well as state-of-the-art technical support from its specialists.

Leading UK based international pig breeding company – JSR Genetics has appointed Dr Grant Walling as Managing Director, taking overall responsibility for JSR’s sales business and breed improvement programmes.

“Participation from Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and North America in particular is conspicuously higher than it was in 2009.”

Twenty-four veterinary students from Iowa State University participated in a unique learning experience combining the identification of sick pigs and communication skills. The first Individual Pig Care training/certification program for veterinary students was held on March 26, 2011 at Iowa State University and was sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health.

Nutreco starts a research partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre (MAFIC) of China. The MAFIC institute is part of the China Agricultural University in Beijing, which is China's leading university on animal nutrition.

For the month of February, 27 percent of U.S. pork production was sold outside of the United States with the incremental value of exports reaching $51.48 per head – versus 25.2 percent and $43.81 last year. Total pork exports jumped 15 percent in value and 8 percent in volume versus February 2010 totals.

Management-level professionals in the pork industry now have the opportunity to strengthen their leadership and business skills through a two-year certificate program uniquely tailored for their needs.