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DuPont recently announced it had entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company, for $5.8 billion in cash and assumption of $500 million of Danisco net debt.

Pfizer Animal Health today announced an agreement to acquire Synbiotics Corporation (Pinksheets SYNB.PK), a privately held, Kansas City-based leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of immunodiagnostic tests for companion and food production animals.

VION Food Nederland will be able to supply Dutch retailers with pork from uncastrated animals as of 1 February 2011.

Despite the recent arctic conditions Staffordshire-based ARM Buildings has been able to continue with the majority of their contracts for new piggeries throughout the UK, reports the company.

Lallemand’s probiotic bacteria officially recognized to enhance feed efficiency and growth performance for piglets

Staff from Yorkshire based pig breeding company JSR were “honoured” to host a group of business delegates visiting from the Xiangfan province of China. The delegates were visiting the North East to meet with JSR as part of European business trip encouraging investment in the Xiangfan Province.

Australia's pork industry has welcomed the announcement by Federal Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr, that the Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has been funded for a further eight years.

The company has recently been given approval to distribute its very effective Mycotoxin binder Mtox + in Chin.

There has been a good atmosphere at the Agromek agricultural exhibition in the MCH Exhibition Centre in Herning, Denmark.

OJSC Cherkizovo Group one of Russia’s leading integrated and diversified meat producers, is pleased to announce that the first line of the poultry breeding facility at its Bryansk cluster has been officially opened

Farmers fed up falling in frozen farmyards are making this a best ever winter for Bekina wellie boot sales.

Jebsen & Jessen Chemicals/NutriLife SEA will distribute Lallemand Animal Nutrition probiotics and yeast derivatives for the poultry, swine and aquaculture industries in South East Asia

Officially opening a new $10 million red meat rendering facility for the Craig Mostyn Group (CMG) at Talloman, Hazelmere, Western Australia, yesterday, WA Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, said the investment showed CMG’s commitment to continuous improvement and a willingness to invest in upgrading its operations.

The Institute of State Authorized Public Accountants in Denmark (FSR) announced today that Danisco A/S has been named the winner of the Best CSR report of a company listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S (C20)

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The recent cold snap is a reminder that winter is coming! Already, our practice is seeing upsurges in coughs and respiratory disease in pigs, probably triggered by fluctuations in temperature, says Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd.