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News Archive
Agromek announces 162 "New Product" exhibits
22 Oct 2008 - Farmers and machine dealers from many countries will
visit Agromek, Herning, Denmark during the last week of
November. Read more >>
Better cereal supply: Better pork profits
22 Oct 2008 -
A major pork
industry seminar has heard that improving the quality and supply of cereal
grains is crucial to reducing the cost of production and improving productivity
in the Australian pork industry. Read more >>
New issue of Pig Progress released
21 Oct 2008 - This months Pig Progress magazine has been released. Subscribers can look
forward to reading about piglet castration, PCV2 vaccines in Japan, questions
and answers around MRSA and much more... Read more >>
EuroTier 2008: Chinese-European Pig Summit
21 Oct 2008 - The Chinese-European Pig Summit at this years EuroTier
will bring together Chinese and European pig production experts, from conception
right through to slaughtering. The event will take place in the EuroTier
Convention Centre on 12 November 2008 from 10.30 to 13.30 in room
13/14. Read more >>
New version of web interface Bintrac released
21 Oct 2008 - HerdStar, an animal technology company, has released
its second major version of Bintrac.com. www.bintrac.com is a web interface to
HerdStar’s BinTrac™ PRO bin monitoring system, with an accurate end-to-end bin
monitoring solution allowing remote access to feed bin levels, consumption, feed
ordering, and feed delivery tracking. Read more >>
Avesui: Int'l Poultry and Swine Fair, Brazil
21 Oct 2008 - From 27-29 April, AveSui Regiões 2009 (Latin American
Industry of Poultry and Swine Fair) will be held in Sao
Paulo. Read more >>
AUS: disagreement over free-range standard
21 Oct 2008 - A disagreement has arisen in the Australian pig
industry over what constitutes a free-range standard for
pigs. Read more >>
Illinois completes deal for hog sale to China
20 Oct 2008 - A trade lead obtained on a swine tour sponsored by the
Illinois Department of Agriculture has resulted in a large, $1.7 million hog
sale to China for a central Illinois export business. Read more >>
MOU to pursue swine waste-to-energy projects
20 Oct 2008 - Progress Energy Carolinas and GreenCo Solutions, have entered into a
Memorandum of Understanding to jointly pursue new alternative energy projects
designed to turn swine waste into electricity. The two companies will work
together to identify and support swine waste-to-energy projects in Eastern North
Carolina to serve the utility's customers and those of the state's electric
cooperatives. Read more >>
SP: Animal health leadership transition
20 Oct 2008 - Schering-Plough Corporation has announced the
transition of leadership of its Animal Health unit from Ruurd Stolp, DVM, Ph.D,
to Raul E. Kohan, who was previously the Deputy Head of the Animal Health unit. Read more >>
Netherlands: no castrated pork for Aldi and Lidl
20 Oct 2008 - Both discounters Aldi and Lidl have decided to sell
only pork from non-castrated pigs in the Netherlands as from early next
year. Read more >>
US: Canadian hog import levels declining
17 Oct 2008 - Canadian swine imports have been declining on a year-to-year basis since
late April, and the fourth-quarter projections likely will be well
below the same period last year, writes Curt Thacker. Read more >>
Chinese visit Brazilian pig sanitation facilities
17 Oct 2008 - Inspectors from the Official Veterinary Service of
China are due to arrive in Brazil to evaluate the pig and wild bore sanitation
system and for gelatine production, with a view to increasing trade between the
two countries. Read more >>
Triumph delays start of new pork plant
17 Oct 2008 - Triumph Foods is indefinitely delaying construction of
a pork processing plant in East Moline. Read more >>
Scottish pork specially selected for Sainsbury’s
17 Oct 2008 - Supermarket consumers looking for truly Scottish pork
products will have an easier time thanks to a new move by UK supermarket,
Sainsbury’s. Read more >>
Canadian Pork Label accepted by retailers
16 Oct 2008 - Pork Marketing Canada is reporting that its new
"Canadian Pork Label" has been well received amongst Canada's grocery
retailers. Read more >>
USMEF: South Korea’s pork export status
16 Oct 2008 - A USMEF senior leadership team led by Phil Seng,
president and CEO, is in the midst of a weeklong series of meetings with key
South Korean distributors, wholesalers, retailers and industry consultants to
assess current market conditions and fine-tune the organisation’s approach for
US pork and beef in this key export market. Read more >>
Hermaphrodite pig born in Colombia
16 Oct 2008 - It doesn't happen every day, infact it's an extremely
rare occurrence, but in Colombia, in Bayunca near Cartagena a cattle farmer
discovered one of his piglets was hermaphrodite. Read more >>
European consumers reject cloned animal meat
16 Oct 2008 - The European Commission recently commissioned a survey
to help it decide whether it should approve the controversial practice of
cloning animals for meat within the EU. Read more >>
English pig producers feel over-regulated
16 Oct 2008 - The difficulties - particularly the uncertainties - of
living with Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) were outlined to
the Environment select committee when it took oral evidence from the English pig
industry this week. Read more >>
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