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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
CRC Sees Healthy Role for Australian PorkAUSTRALIA - Pork’s role in a balanced diet and lifestyle and how it might assist weight management and address critical health issues such as Type 2 diabetes, is the focus of the CRC For High Integrity...
Monday, March 26, 2012
New Director for CRC for High–Integrity Aussie PorkAUSTRALIA - New Zealand pork producer, Chris Trengrove, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, replacing Sam McIvor as the Board representative of Essential...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Warm, Dry South Expected for April, JuneAUSTRALIA - Most of southern Australia has a greater than 60 per cent chance of exceeding the median maximum temperature between April and June, while the already dry south-east South Australia and western...
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Pork Projects with a DifferenceAUSTRALIA - Research projects demonstrating quality, system changing science that could successfully be adopted by Australia’s pork industry will be considered for funding by the CRC for High Integrity...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Pork CRC Presents APSA AwardsAUSTRALIA - University of Queensland post-graduate, Larissa Beale, has been awarded Pork CRC Best Presentation at the 2011 13th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA) Conference,...
2012 - Australian Year of the FarmerAUSTRALIA - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, and Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Sid Sidebottom, have welcomed 2012 - the Australian...
Friday, December 09, 2011
New Pork CRC Launched with High IntegrityAUSTRALIA - Officially launching the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, Chairman of the CRC Committee, Neville Stevens, AO, said it had the potential to build quality jobs and products for Austra...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Kathryn Adams Appointed to Pork CRC BoardAUSTRALIA - Agricultural scientist and lawyer, Kathryn Adams, has been appointed as an Independent Director to the Board of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, replacing Nigel Smith who retired...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Passport Project Delivers Better Pig HusbandryAUSTRALIA - A pilot training project has delivered strong outcomes for Western Australia’s pork industry workforce.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Pork CRC's CEO is on the Road AgainAUSTRALIA - Pork CRC CEO, Dr Roger Campbell, was the first ‘cab off the rank’ at the APL/Pork CRC Roadshow in Perth on Friday, 7 October.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Farmers Use Pigs to Cultivate PaddocksAUSTRALIA - Pigs are being used instead of tractors to cultivate paddocks at a farm at Mulloon in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
APL: Winner of Undergraduate Scholarship Award AUSTRALIA - Australian Pork Limited (APL) is proud to announce La Trobe University student Karly Barker as the winner of the Ron Pollard Undergraduate Scholarship Award for 2011.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Research Community Helps Kickstart New Pork CRCAUSTRALIA - Applications for the 2011-2012 inaugural funding round for research projects with the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork are in and early indications are that the research community and...
Western Australian Pork Industry Training a SuccessAUSTRALIA - Western Australia’s pork industry has been strengthened with a specialised skills training programme producing nearly 70 graduates from two courses held over the past year.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Props Needed to Push Start New Pork CRCAUSTRALIA - Australia’s new Pork Cooperative Research Centre, the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, is open for ‘business’ and now invites proposals for its inaugural funding round (2011-2012)...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
New Board for New Pork CRCAUSTRALIA - Ensuring Australian pork is a high integrity meat that is welfare optimal, environmentally responsible, safe and nutritious is the focus of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Pork CRC: Bench Pressing LiftsAUSTRALIA - Pork CRC's benchmarking scheme for the production performance of the country's pork industry has completed an initial pilot and is now open to producers nationwide to participate.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Pork CRC: From the Top ShelfAUSTRALIA - "We are rapidly approaching the official end of the CRC for an Internationally Competitive Australian Pork Industry," writes Dr Roger Campbell, CEO of Pork CRC.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Meriden Opens Subsidiary in AustraliaAUSTRALIA - Meriden Animal Health Limited has recently opened a new office in Australia, further consolidating its sales network in South-East Asia and Australasia.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Pork CRC Appoints New Business and Finance AUSTRALIA - Geoff Crook has been appointed Business and Finance Manager with Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), based at the University of Adelaide’s Roseworthy Campus.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Pig Day Out Attracts Speakers from Far and WideAUSTRALIA - The annual Pig Day Out next month has attracted speakers from as far away as New Zealand to update pig producers on the latest research and developments in the industry.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Nutrition Research to Pay Producer DividendsAUSTRALIA - Paying closer attention to nutrition in their pre- and post- weaning pigs promises to pay dividends for pork producers thanks to enhanced intestinal and immune development, survivability and...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Hot News on Seasonal Infertility in PigsAUSTRALIA - Although eliminating the costly problem of seasonal infertility in pigs is probably beyond us, considerable research, supported by Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), has...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Rain Hail or Shine Grains Gain with AusScanAUSTRALIA - With prolific weather damaged grain in eastern Australia, drought affected grain in WA and some light-weight barley in Queensland, livestock producers, particularly pig farmers, are turning...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Senator Carr Drives Pork CRC into the FutureAUSTRALIA - Australia's pork industry, which has an annual farm-gate value of A$1 billion, contributes $3 billion annually to the national economy and generates 8,000 jobs, has welcomed the announcement...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Pork CRC: Productively Feeding US and ThemAUSTRALIA - Delivering the keynote address, The Modern Pork Industry – Breakthroughs and Future Opportunities, Dr Roger Campbell, CEO of Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC),...
Friday, September 03, 2010
A First for Australia's Pork IndustryAUSTRALIA - Pork producers from all over Australia took the opportunity to participate in a Town Hall Teleforum to discuss the industry’s use of gestation stalls as part of the Shaping our Future...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Pork Producers Protest Against Coles ConAUSTRALIA - Pork producers from the Victorian Farmer’s Federation (VFF), with support from Australian Pork Limited (APL), protested in Melbourne earlier today against the double standard around Coles’...
Friday, July 30, 2010
Diabetic Test to Help Pork ProducersAUSTRALIA - A simple glucose meter, or glucometer, commonly used by diabetics to measure blood glucose levels, is set to help Australian pork producers more efficiently feed their pigs.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Pork Farmers Hit Out at Coles Sow Stall BanAUSTRALIA - The New South Wales Farmers Association is concerned Australian pork suppliers will go out of business if major supermarkets ban pork from pigs raised in sow stalls.
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