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Marubeni Corporation and Dong Nai Food Industrial Corporation (DOFICO), a company fully owned by the Dong Nai Province, situated adjacent to the east of Ho Chi Minh City, has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly operate its feed milling segment, and to establish an integrated food production and supply system centered in the distribution of meat products.

Manitoba Pork applauds the recent announcement of a $10 million federal investment to upgrade HyLife Foods’ pork processing plant in Neepawa. It is an economic boost to Manitoba pork producers and the provincial economy at the right time.

Cargill has launched a new supplement to help show pigs grow to their full potential. Showmaster® Bling® Plus medicated nutritional supplement supports increased rate of weight gain, improved feed efficiency and increased carcass leanness for finishing swine.

AgFeed Industries, Inc. announced organizational changes and acquisitions agreements in fulfillment of its previously announced entry to the harvest and processing segment of the pork business.

Australia’s new Pork Cooperative Research Centre, the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, is open for ‘business’ and now invites proposals for its inaugural funding round (2011-2012) for research projects.

Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced today that it has embarked on the expansion of a vaccine manufacturing unit at its Biosciences Center Boxmeer campus in the Netherlands.

One of China’s brightest young graduates has joined a leading UK pig genetics company and will play a key role in their plans for sales growth in China and Asia.

Many farms will experience reduced fertility over the next few months due to summer and autumn infertility, warns Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd.

Pfizer Inc. announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its Animal Health and Nutrition businesses based on its recent business portfolio review to determine the optimal mix of businesses for maximizing shareholder value.

“The boys are much dirtier than the girls – but since we put in the ventilation both sexes now have clean pens!” That was how Derek Buckmaster summed up the dunging habits of the separate sexes of pigs in his three finishing houses.

A free waste oil collection service for farmers across the UK has been launched by Solway Recycling of Dumfries.

Ileitis, a common disease of grower and finisher pigs that can cost producers between $8 and $13 per pig if not controlled, will be the subject of an address at the 2011 Australian Pig Vets meeting in Melbourne in July.

During the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases held in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month, nearly 400 pig specialists attended the Merial Satellite Symposium ‘Update on Swine influenza’.

With five more months to go, 2,000 exhibitors from 44 countries have already booked stands at the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica 2011, to be held in November in Hanover, Germany.

TOPIGS is pleased to announce the appointment of Jóster Macedo as director of TOPIGS do Brasil. Jóster Macedo (37) has broad experience of the Brazilian agricultural industry. He was country manager of Tyson Foods in Brasil and CEO of Macedo Agroindustrial.

Poor ‘Third World’ countries are prepared to pay more for their pork than British retailers. In Cambodia – where Yorkshire-based pig-breeding company, ACMC Ltd, is doing business – the farm-gate price paid for pigs is currently equivalent to £2.47 per kg deadweight. This compares with the UK price of just £1.51 per kg.