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News Archive
Danish AI company Hatting-KS moves into Germany
11 Apr 2012 - The Danish pig AI station Hatting-KS has bought the German Nort Group, as from April 4. The Nort Group owns the stations ‘Nort’ in the state of Lower Saxony and ‘Nort-Ost’ in Brandenburg. Read more >>
How can pork help in weight management, diabetes?
11 Apr 2012 - Pork’s role in a balanced diet and lifestyle and how it might assist weight management and address critical health issues such as Type 2 diabetes, is the focus of the CRC For High Integrity Australian Pork Subprogram 3B, ‘Health benefits of fresh pork’ Read more >>
Merial launches plea for whole herd PCV2 vaccination
11 Apr 2012 - On the basis of recent research on Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2), French Animal Health company Merial has launched a renewed plea for whole herd vaccination. Read more >>
New appointment to represent Fancom in Vietnam
10 Apr 2012 - Fancom B.V. has closed an agreement with Nguyen Van Cuong for the marketing, sales and service activities of Fancom in Vietnam. Read more >>
US: Pig manure attracts interest from big firms Google and Apple
10 Apr 2012 - North Carolina’s pig farms are becoming the focus of big tech companies interested in off-setting their carbon footprint by investing in manure-to-methane renewable energy.
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Russian agency blames African Swine Fever outbreak on Georgia
10 Apr 2012 - Gennady Onishchenko, head of Russia’s state consumer protection agency, says that Russia’s ongoing African Swine Fever epidemic is due to economic sabotage perpetrated by neighbouring Georgia.
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Danish Crown to close department in Hadsund
10 Apr 2012 - Danish Crown's department in Hadsund will close down before the end of September 2012.
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Australia: Pork projects with a difference
10 Apr 2012 - Research projects demonstrating quality, system changing science that could successfully be adopted by Australia’s pork industry will be considered for funding by the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, which called for proposals on March 1.
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China lets in Mexican pork
09 Apr 2012 - China’s government on Friday gave five Mexican companies permission to export pork to China, releasing thet initial list on the occasion of Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa’s visit to Beijing. Read more >>
Miratorg Q1 results: pork production 70%, fodder 135%
09 Apr 2012 - Miratorg, Russia's premier pork and animal feed producer, announces its first quarter results, Bloomberg reports. Read more >>
Croatian pork exports hampered by EU regulations
09 Apr 2012 - European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Ciolos, said that for a return to the European pork markets, Croatia needed to prove that farm reared pigs were separated from wild pigs to ensure that there was no re-transmission of swine flu, the Croatia Times reports. Read more >>
Feed Safety Guide now in 23 European Community languages
09 Apr 2012 - The European Feed Ingredient Safety Certification Association (EFISC) has translated the European Guide to good practice for the industrial manufacture of safe feed materials in the EU languages. Read more >>
4% of Vietnam's pork contains banned additives
06 Apr 2012 - A random sample of Vietnam's pork detected that 4.4 % contained forbidden lean-meat additives which could lead to cardiovascular complications in humans, revealed Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's department of Animal Husbandry. Read more >>
Sanofi acquires US swine vaccines
06 Apr 2012 - French drugmaker Sanofi announced it has acquired Newport Laboratories, a US swine and bovine vaccines manufacturer, to bolster its animal health unit Merial, Reuters reports. Read more >>
EU puts off PAP for pigs till another day
06 Apr 2012 - The European Commission has stalled plans to re-introduce processed animal protein (PAP) in animal feed. Failure to prove cannibalism rule underlies this decision. Read more >>
Golden Piglets at every stop on the North Devon Ale Trail
06 Apr 2012 - The Country Life Brewery, based at the Big Sheep in Abbotsham, wants to make sure you stay "ale and hearty" this spring. It has launched the North Devon Ale Trail, where alongside getting out in the great outdoors to enjoy wonderful beaches, stunning coastline and picturesque villages, you can also stop off and sample a selection of real ales. Read more >>
Australian pig reproduction expert at BPEX Two-Tonne Sow
06 Apr 2012 - Australian pig expert Dr Paul Hughes will reveal the latest knowledge on
pig reproduction next month at two special BPEX Two-Tonne Sow events for
English pig producers. 'Reproduction: What's New?' will be held in
Chippenham and Wetherby on the evenings of 9 and 10 May 2012. Read more >>
Zhongpin moves to new Beijing office
05 Apr 2012 - Zhongpin, a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, has announced that its Beijing office has moved to a new address in the Chaoyang District of Beijing.
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When dining out, Britains pick pork
05 Apr 2012 - In Britain, the popularity of pork is growing when people are eating out of the home, with bacon leading the way. Read more >>
Rattlerow Seghers ships deep frozen pig semen to Brazil
05 Apr 2012 - Belgian pig genetics company Rattlerow Seghers is shipping deep-frozen Piétrain semen to Brazil. Read more >>
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