Pork Commentary: Those Pigs Just Keep Coming and Coming!
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Modern Technology From Big Dutchman
GERMANY - New barn with exhaust air washer for 3,300 piglets.

Third Quarter results confirm SPs solid position
NEW JERSEY - The finances of world-leading pharmaceutical giant Schering-Plough are very much in order. The company has recorded its 12th consecutive quarter of double-digit adjusted sales growth putting...

Competent Partner In Finland
FINLAND – Big Dutchman, the worldwide market leader for housing equipment for modern pig management, welcomes a new partner to its tightly woven net of exclusive distributors around the world: the Finnish...

Boehringer Ingelheim Announces Swine Division Additions
US - Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) swine division announces the following additions to its U.S. swine team.

Pork Commentary - Record Slaughter but Prices Do Not Collapse
CANADA - When we think of recent history in the hog markets 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 when there was a collapse of prices in the face of huge marketings, it appears we have established new price plateaus,...

Euro approval for the World's largest animal health business
EUROPE - Schering-Plough Corporation has received European Commission approval for its planned acquisition of Organon BioSciences, from Akzo Nobel.

Behaviour, efficiency and secure access: Key developments for pig producers
NETHERLANDS - Nedap welcomed its business partners from across the world to its Velos Event 2007, held at their premises in Groenlo, The Netherlands, last week.

DuPont Pledges $250,000 For Water Conservancy
DES MOINES -- DuPont today announced a pledge of $250,000 to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to improve water quality in vital Midwestern watersheds and to further reduce excess nutrient runoff from...

Thompson's tip: Save feed, cut waste
UK - Despite the high cost of feed, frequently very simple feed-saving tasks on pig farms are being ignored.

Pork Commentary: China Syndrome
CANADA - This past week, we continued to Biomin Asian Nutrition Tour in China. There were three stops; Guangzhou (Canton), Nanchang and Beijing, writes Jim Long. Our observations:

College Celebrates Unique High-Welfare Pig Unit
UK - Bishop Burton College has officially launched its innovative high-welfare pig unit with a high-profile opening ceremony.

Summer export business thrives for TOPIGS
EUROPE - Market difficulties have not halted TOPIGS export business. The company widened its activities in Romania and Brazil during the summer months.

Promotion to 'dine' for. Pig industry's the main course at ANUGA
UK - The easing of export restrictions adds new impetus to the British Pig Executive's (BPEX) moves to keep the lines of communication open with Europe.

Dutch delegation visits Chinese TOPIGS farm
NETHERLANDS - A Dutch delegation representing the meat trade, was in China on a fact finding tour of it's pork industry. The group visited a local pig farm which using TOPIGS high-health genetics.

Romanian Agrisol starts with TOPIGS
ROMANIA - Romanian company Agrisol has populated its first pig farm with TOPIGS genetics.

TOPIGS populates new project in Mexico
MEXICO - Mexican company OJAI populated a new 4800 sow project with TOPIGS genetics.

Pork Commentary : Asian Tour Week 1
ASIA - This past week, we have been traveling in Asia. Countries we have been to are South Korea, Japan, Viet Nam and Cambodia. Rapid transit with 6 flights so far and more to come, writes Jim Long.

British Pigs Are Worth It - and the retailers know it
By Rick Sanderson, Pork Chain Business Development Manager, PIC. Congratulations to the 'British Pig Are Worth It' campaign. It seems our supermarkets are getting behind it and offering retail price increases,...

Bullet Proofing your Pig Business against a market you can't control
CANADA - Weaning 30.2 live pigs per sow per year is something that was unheard of only a few years ago, but today on one farm in Manitoba it is a reality.

Conference report: Tomorrow's agriculture must be science driven
UK - 'Putting science into practice' may have been the theme of JSR's 18th technical conference theme, but the clear message was more on the vast ignorance retailers and consumers have about the volume...

Merial launches UK's first PMWS vaccine
UK - Merial Animal Health launches CIRCOVAC®, the UK's first vaccine for PCV2. This is the virus involved in post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) and other PCV2 -related diseases.

Hypor pooling scientific and technical resources
CANADA - Hypor North America announces two new appointments, continuing the process of integrating their Research and Development and Technical Services Divisions.

Pork Commentary: Have prices plateaued?
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

British investors interested in pig rearing in Cambodia
UK - A group of British investors have expressed interest in cooperative investment in pig-rearing and jatropha growing in Cambodia, local media reported on Tuesday.