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Assured Food Standards (AFS) has announced it will mark the 10th anniversary of the Red Tractor food assurance scheme with Red Tractor Week. Running from 14–20 June, Red Tractor Week will celebrate 10 years of great food and farming under the Red Tractor logo.

Cargill's U.S. meat business, headquartered in Wichita, plans to invest $14.7 million to create a new facility with research, development, culinary, laboratory, pilot plant and distribution capabilities on Wichita Street, between 1st and 2nd streets, in downtown.

Joergen Moeller Andersen (46) has been appointed Climate and Production Specialist of SKOV Asia Ltd. with responsibility for project sales of SKOV systems for customers in the entire region.

In April Perstorp appointed two new sales managers for feed additives. Both sales managers will be active in Europe: Mr. Christophe Michaut will be responsible for France, Dr. Peter Papocsi for Central and Eastern Europe.

Strengthening the team at EnviTec UK by offering expert technical support for biogas production is Jens Albers.

People who become certified as Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus® Advisors under the National Pork Board's PQA Plus® program are required to recertify every three years.

Maple Leaf introduces Natural Selections, deli meats made with simple ingredients you can actually pronounce.

Meat & Livestock Australia is seeking to appoint three independent Directors to the Board at this year’s Annual General Meeting, with applications now being accepted.

Maple Leaf Foods today announced that it is launching a formal sale process for its Ontario pork processing business located in Burlington, Ontario, following renewed interest from potential purchasers and improved economic conditions and credit markets.

Novus International, Inc. announced today that it has acquired IQF-ENAMEX and its sister company, Operadora ENAMEX, both based in Córdoba, Mexico from Grupo Porres and other shareholders. IQF- ENAMEX produces feed carotenoid pigments, mineral and vitamin premixes, anti-caking agents and mold inhibitors.

Peter Kristian Vind has been appointed Regional Service Technician of SKOV Asia Ltd on 1 Mai 2010 and will primarily take care of servicing SKOV installations in Asia.

Pork producers are invited to attend either of two workshops focusing on advanced swine reproductive management topics scheduled for early next month in northwest Iowa and northeast Nebraska.

Hypor is pleased to announce the acquisition of Designed Genetics. Designed Genetics, based in Lockport, Manitoba (Canada), is widely recognized as a leader in Duroc breeding, with a growing share of the Duroc boar market globally.

Pigs per sow per year and numbers weaned have always been the main performance criteria adopted by pig producers to judge the success of their business. Both are useful indicators, indeed JSR have a commercial target of 25 pigs per sow per year, but it is important that producers keep an open mind on how they can measure unit efficiency and productivity.

JSR Genetics, the UK-based international pig breeding company, has agreed a joint venture to build and stock a state of the art Nucleus on a Greenfield site in China. The 900 sow Nucleus will be located in the Hubei province of China and is expected to be complete in December 2010. The deal, which includes the shipment of both dam lines and sire lines, reinforces JSR’s commitment to investing in Nucleus facilities within the target market.

Rapid progress in sow productivity in commercial pig herds is still possible, according to Yorkshire-based pig-breeding company ACMC.