Pork Checkoff presents PORK Academy at World Pork Expo
25 May 2012 - On June 6 and 7 the Pork Checkoff is sponsoring Producers Opportunity for Revenue and Knowledge (PORK) Academy at World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairground in Des Moines.
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Alltech Symposium: Debate on how to feed 9 billion people by 2050
25 May 2012 - The Great Debate held during The Alltech 28th Annual International Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, hosted a panel of four of the sharpest minds representing all corners of the agriculture and food ecosystem. The debate cut through the hyperbole to get to the heart of what really matters when trying to feed a population of 9 billion people by 2050.
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Alltech Symposium: Feeding 9 Billion people by 2050
24 May 2012 - The Alltech 28th Annual International Symposium concluded with the pledge for continuous innovation in order to meet the agricultural challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050. The Symposium highlighted the wide range of solutions available to society to meet this challenge.
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Alltech presents the 2012 Medal of Excellence
23 May 2012 - Alltech are proud to award the 2012 Alltech Medal of Excellence to Governor John Y. Brown, father of the modern fast food industry and former Governor of Kentucky.
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Alltech focuses on natural production from farm to fork
22 May 2012 - True to tradition, the 28th annual symposium of Alltech is taking place again this week in Lexington, KY, USA. Bigger than ever before, this years event attracts about 3,000 attendees from 72 countries. Read more >>
New National Pork Board appointees announced
21 May 2012 - Five new appointments to the 15-member National Pork Board have been announced by Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack. The appointees will each serve a three-year term.
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Project to produce GE pig loses funding
21 May 2012 - Ontario pork has decided to cease funding for the Enviropig research project at the University of Guelph, to produce a genetically engineered pig that is better able to digest the phosphorous and thus reducing it in manure.
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Canadian processing sector boosted, increased pork purchases
18 May 2012 - Christian Paradis, minister of industry and minister of state (Agriculture), announced an investment of up to CAN$253,603 to Boulangerie Première Moisson to purchase new equipment for the company's deli meat division in Terrebonne, Quebec.
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Guatemala reports outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever
17 May 2012 - Classical Swine Fever has been reported in two farm sites in Guatemala. Of a total population of 220 susceptible pigs, 33 pigs were found to carry the virus. Read more >>
Feeding for 30 Program launched for 30 piglets per sow
16 May 2012 - Animal feed company Land O’Lakes Purina launches an industry initiative – the ‘Feeding for 30 Program’. Read more >>
Brazil's feed prices put pig farmers on alert
15 May 2012 - Brazil’s animal feed production costs are expected to increase this year by 3-3.5%, according to Ariovaldo Zani, executive VP of Brazil's National Animal Feed Industry Association, Sindirações.
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Harrisvaccines to receive award
15 May 2012 - Professor and Harrisvaccines Founder and President, D.L. 'Hank' Harris, D.V.M., Ph.D., has been selected to receive the Iowa State University Award for Achievement in Economic Development in Iowa, which recognises faculty and staff members for outstanding ISU-based achievements in advancing the economic development of the state.
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US pork exports post strong Q1 growth
14 May 2012 - US pork exports finished the first quarter 8 percent higher in volume (598,058 metric tons) and 20 percent higher in value ($1.66 billion) than last year’s record pace, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
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Smithfield Foods – ranked by Fortune magazine
11 May 2012 - Fortune magazine announced that it has ranked Smithfield Foods among America's 500 largest corporations for 2012.
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Canadian Pork Council addressing animal care
11 May 2012 - The past several weeks have seen a series of announcements by fast food companies and food retailers about animal welfare. Some firms are dictating what should happen on farm, others leaving the industry and experts to chart the way forward.
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NPPC: Statement on animal abuses at a farm
10 May 2012 - Undercover video from a Wyoming hog farm released by an animal rights group shows practices that are abhorrent to US pork producers. Read more >>
Lucta to hold pre-conference symposium on gut chemosensing
10 May 2012 - Spain-based feed additive producer Lucta will organise a pre-conference symposium, prior to this year’s edition of Digestive Physiology of Pigs, held in Colorado, United States. Read more >>
US: Safeway to abandon pork from farms using gestation crates
08 May 2012 - US store chain Safeway Inc. has announced that it will sell pork that comes from farms that do not use sow gestation stalls.
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NPPC comments on Safeway’s sow housing decision
08 May 2012 - NPPC president statement: NPPC supports the position taken by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, which recognise gestation stalls and group housing systems as appropriate for providing for the well-being of sows during pregnancy.
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Canada-Japan EPA will increase Canadian pork exports
08 May 2012 - Ottawa Canadian Pork Council’s chair, Jean-Guy Vincent and Canada Pork International’s president, Jacques Pomerleau appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade as witnesses to the committee’s study on a comprehensive and high level economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Japan.
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