Netherlands News
Big Dutchman Celebrate Mod Hog Air WasherNETHERLANDS - New House With Modern Air Washer For 2,000 Finishing Pigs
25.7 Weaned Pigs/Sow/Year In The NetherlandsNETHERLANDS - In 2006 TOPIGS sows in the Netherlands weaned on average 25.7 pigs per year. TOPIGS gathered the technical results of 768 farms with in total almost 290,000 sows.
More TOPIGS Sows In The NetherlandsNETHERLANDS - In 2006 TOPIGS Nederland sold 2.8 % more gilts. In total 215,000 gilts were sold.
TOPIGS Nederland: semen sales plus 6.5%NETHERLANDS - In 2006 TOPIGS Nederland sold 3.38 million doses of semen, 6.5% more than in 2005. Over the past 4 years, sales have increased by 14% and TOPIGS market share on the Dutch semen market has...
Schering-Plough To Acquire IntervetNETHERLANDS - American based company Schering Plough has announced it is to acquire the Dutch veterinary company Intervet as part of its buy out of Organon BioSciences, the pharmaceutical division of chemical...
Hypor Grows R&D teamNETHERLANDS - Hypor is pleased to announce the appointments of Xu Bai and Abe Huisman to the Research and Development team. Both geneticists fill newly created positions, with Abe Huisman as the Program...
Intervet sees 6% global growthTHE NETHERLANDS - Revenues at Intervet increased by 3% to EUR 1,125 million boosted by strong autonomous growth of 6% across all regions and product lines.
Intervet opens new vaccine plantTHE NETHERLANDS – Intervet, the world’s largest producer of vaccines for animals, has just opened a new production facility for vaccines in Boxmeer, the Netherlands.
Nutreco has signed an MoU to sell the animal breeding activities of Euribrid to Hendrix GeneticsTHE NETHERLANDS - Nutreco Holding N.V. and Hendrix Genetics B.V. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the sale of the animal breeding activities “Euribrid”, including its related Animal...
PowerFlow™: "Uniformity under Control" in larger pig sectionsTHE NETHERLANDS - Controlling the climate in large sections or buildings housing pigs is often more difficult than in smaller sections. The entirely new Fancom PowerFlow™ ventilation concept deals with...
First use of commercial genomic selectionTHE NETHERLANDS - Euribrid announces the first large-scale commercial use of "Genomic Selection" technology in poultry. This is also the first time such a large set of DNA markers has been used in commercial...
Patrick van de Kerkhof appointed Director Sales AND Services at Fancom B.V.THE NETHERLANDS - Patrick van de Kerkhof has been appointed as Director Sales & Services at Fancom BV in Panningen as per 1st December 2006.
Croatian enterprise Žito starts with TOPIGS in-house breeding systemTHE NETHERLANDS - The Croatian-based agricultural company Žito d.o.o. is to start producing sows based on the TOPIGS in-house nucleus system.
"Get Connected" with your PDA for total access to control computers in the houseTHE NETHERLANDS - Under the name “Get Connected” Fancom will be presenting a new platform for integral control of climate, feed and process data in pig and poultry houses at VIV Europe.
New Fancom I-fan for energy efficient ventilationTHE NETHERLANDS - The latest development, the I-fan, represents a valuable contribution to Fancom's ventilation concepts such as MTT, Combi ventilation, ProFlow and PowerFlow. Energy savings of up to 75%...
Intervet appoints Ellen de Brabander as a member of the company’s Executive CommitteeTHE NETHERLANDS - Intervet, Akzo Nobel’s veterinary pharma business, announces that Ellen de Brabander – van den Berg (43) has been appointed as a member of Intervet’s Executive Committee, effective...
Revolutionary new tool: the IDAL VaccinatorTHE NETHERLANDS - Intervet's IDAL Vaccinator is a revolutionary needleless vaccination device, that allows intradermal application of swine vaccines. Due to its unique nature it has a number of advantages...
Foot-and-Mouth disease vaccine factory now owned by IntervetTHE NETHERLANDS - Five months after signing an agreement on sale and purchase the Foot-and-Mouth (FMD) vaccine factory in Cologne Bayer HealthCare AG and Intervet International bv have completed the a...
Hypor's Multiplication Dealer Wins Prestigious Agriculture AwardTHE NETHERLANDS - Hypor’s multiplication dealer for northern Holland, Johnny Hogenkamp, accepted The Netherlands most prestigious agricultural award, “Agricultural Entrepreneur 2006,” on March 29,...
Akzo Nobel BV to separate Pharma from its Chemicals/Coatings businessesTHE NETHERLANDS – Akzo Nobel NV has announced today that it intends to separate its pharmaceutical activities from its chemicals and coatings businesses. The aim is to create two independent companies...
Intervet acquires FMD vaccine factory from Bayer HealthCare AGTHE NETHERLANDS – Intervet, the animal health business unit of Akzo Nobel, announced the agreement with Bayer HealthCare AG to acquire the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine factory in Cologne, Ge...
Intervet updates Porcilis PRRS web site.THE NETHERLANDS - In 1987 Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) was first observed in pig herds in the United States. In 1990 the first case of PRRS was reported in Europe. By the early...
Dutch Ministry banks Intervet's Classical Swine Fever vaccineTHE NETHERLANDS - On 28th of September 2005 the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture signed a contract with Intervet agreeing a vaccine bank of Porcilis Pesti, Intervet's marker vaccine against Classical Swine...













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