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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Novus Acquires IQF GroupUS - Novus International has acquired IQF Group, extending its product portfolio into the new categories of feed and food carotenoid pigments, essential oils, anti-caking agents and mould inhibitors.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Hormel Pleased with Second Quarter ResultsMINNESOTA, US - Hormel Foods Corporation has reported its performance for the fiscal year 2010 second quarter, revealing excellent results.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tyson Foods Back in ProfitUS - Tyson Foods reports sales for the second quarter of 2010 at $6.92 billion, up from $6.31 billion for the same period last year. This brings sales for the first half of the fiscal year to $13.55 billion...
Friday, May 07, 2010
Pfizer Announces First Veterinary ScholarshipsUS - Pfizer Animal Health and American Veterinary Medical Foundation are offering 222 scholarships to help decrease the debt burden of veterinary students.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Smithfield Foods Provides Peek into Q4 EarningsUS - Smithfield Foods has indicated that it does not expect its fourth quarter hog production segment results to reflect the benefits of the recently and dramatically improved live hog production envi...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Smithfield Plant Shut-Down Earlier than ExpectedUS - Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s hog slaughter plant in Sioux City, Iowa, was mostly shut last week, city officials said, almost two weeks earlier than the closing date previously announced by the comp...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
JBS USA Forms Food Safety TeamUS – The Beef Division of JBS USA Holdings, Inc, part of the Brazilian group JBS S.A., has formed the JBS Food Safety and Quality Advisory Team.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Bettington and Buller to Lead BIVI Swine DivisionUS – Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc has announced the promotion of two employees in the Swine Division: Tim Bettington to executive director of the Swine Division, and Randy Buller to senior associate...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Pfizer Deepens Swine Veterinary Operations, Services TeamUS - Pfizer Animal Health announces that it has promoted one and added four veterinarians to the company’s US swine veterinary operations and services team.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Russia Approves Two Cargill Pork PlantsUS - Russia has reinstated two Cargill pork plants among the country's eligible exporters.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
BIVI Announces 2010 PRRS Research Award RecipientsUS - Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) announces the four recipients of its annual Advancement in PRRS Research Awards.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Smithfield Sees Profits ReturnUS - US meat and pig meat processing giant, Smithfield Foods has reported income for the third quarter of the 2010 financial year of $37.3 million, compared to a loss last year of $108.1 million.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Tyson Indiana Pork Plant Slaughter Still SuspendedINDIANA, US - Hog slaughter at Tyson Foods Inc's fire-damaged Logansport, Indiana, pork plant could restart late this week or early next week, the company said on Monday.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Pork Board HonoursUS - The National Pork Board honoured the latest class of Environmental Steward Award winners at the National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City, MIssouri.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Sullivan Promoted at Boehringer IngelheimUS – Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI), announces the promotion of Cory Sullivan to associate director of Public Relations and Communications. Sullivan, who joined BIVI in June 2008, was associate...
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Businesses Bouncing BackUS - Alltech's 2010 Agribusiness Summit will focus on growing businesses despite adversity. The Summit takes place in Lexington, Kentucky, on 16 to 19 May 2010.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Enjoy the Final Assignment for 'Virtual Walk the Pens'US - This month's new assignment for Pfizer Animal Health's 'Virtual Walk the Pens' simulator has just been released. In this tenth and final scenario, water intake of the finishers is lower than usual....
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Smithfield Appoints First Chief Sustainability OfficerUS - Smithfield Foods, Inc. has announced that it has promoted Dennis H. Treacy to senior vice president of corporate affairs and chief sustainability officer as part of the company's long-term focus on...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Leman Science in Practice Award Winner AnnouncedUS - Paul Yeske, DVM, of St. Peter, Minnesota, will be honored with the Allen D. Leman Science in Practice Award from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and Pfizer Animal Hea...
Monday, February 15, 2010
Hormel Forecast on Bump in Hog Prices LoweredUS - Janney Capital Markets said it has lowered its fiscal 2010 and 2011 earnings forecasts for Hormel Foods because of dramatically higher input costs due to a surge in hog prices in recent months.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Tyson Turns a CornerUS - US meat and food processing giant Tyson Foods has seen all its operating segments show a profit in the first quarter of the current financial year.
New Melamine Test for FeedUS - A new method for the rapid screening of wheat gluten, egg powder, poultry meat and feeds for melamine has been introduced by Bioo Scientific.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Cablevey Feeding Systems Shrinking BordersUS - Leland Cook and Robert Rivers from Cablevey Feeding Systems recently took a party of guests from the Netherlands, Russia and the Ukraine on a tour of livestock farms in Iowa and poultry and swine...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
BIVI Announces Promotions Within Swine TeamUS - In response to its growing swine business and need for technical field support, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) announces the promotion of three professional service veterinarians.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Tyson Adjusts Growing Case-Ready Meats BusinessUS - The continued growth of case-ready beef and pork sales in the Southern US has prompted Tyson Foods, Inc. to make some adjustments in operations, company officials have reported.
Friday, January 22, 2010
John Morrell to Close Sioux City, Iowa PlantUS - John Morrell & Co. is to permanently close its hog processing and fresh meat manufacturing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, from 20 April.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Elanco Forms Food Safety Business UnitUS – Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly and Company has announced that it will launch a new business platform focused on food safety.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Smithfield Completes Sale of RMH and MaverickUS - Smithfield Foods has completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of RMH Foods to a group of investors led by the Rocke family.
Friday, January 08, 2010
Cablevey Swine Feeding Concepts For Breeding/Gestation SystemsUS - With Cablevey's automatic gestation feeding system sows no longer relate management to the feeding process as the system automatically delivers a preselected amount of feed to each sow as many times...
Cablevey Automatic Farrowing Feeding SystemUS - Cablevey Automatic Farrowing Feeding System can offer labour savings of between 45 and 50 per cent compared to conventional feeding methods, the company says.
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