250,000th Big Dutchman-dispenser delivered
GERMANY - Big Dutchman's volume dispenser for individual feeding of sows has become a real bestseller, with the 250,000th model being sold recently. The recipient was the Westermeyer and Sehlmeyer GbR in Bohmte, Northern Germany.

Four million piglets benefit from oral ileitis vaccine
GERMANY - More than 4 million doses of Enterisol® Ileitis, the oral ileitis vaccine, have been supplied to German vets since the vaccine was launched in December 2004, said a spokesman for Boehringer...

Germany Puts Swine Fever Controls in Place
GERMANY - The European Commission is to suspend the movement of all pigs and impose precautionary measures in the "Regierungs-bezirke" Arnsberg, Munster, and Dusseldorf, in North-Rhine Westphalia following a fresh outbreak of classical swine fever. The...

Classical Swine Fever In Germany: Revised Measures
EU - The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health today voted in favour of a Commission proposal to ease certain measures which were put in place due to the recent outbreaks of classical swine fever in certain parts of North-Rhine Westphalia,...

Classical Swine Fever In Germany: Revised Measures On North-Rhine Westphalia
GERMANY - The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health today voted in favour of a Commission proposal modifying the measures adopted last week due to the classical swine fever which have occurred in the last forty days in North-Rhine Westphalia,...

Swine Fever In Germany
GERMANY - The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health yesterday voted in favour of a Commission proposal to tighten the movement restrictions imposed on German pigs due to classical swine fever. This follows two new outbreaks of the disease...

Classical Swine Fever: Movement Restrictions On Pigs In North-Rhine Westphalia
GERMANY - The European Commission has today decided to suspend the movement of all pigs within and from the German federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia, due to a new case of classical swine fever in a pig farm in this region.

Kesko group becomes new Big Dutchman distributor
GERMANY - The worldwide leading manufacturer of housing equipment, the Big Dutchman group, receives prominent support on the Finnish market: as of 15 March, 2006, Kesko Agro Ltd. took over the distribution of pig housing equipment as exclusive Big Dutchman...

Pigs slaughtered after swine fever oubreak in Germany
BERLIN - German authorities have ordered the slaughter of some 2,600 pigs following an outbreak of classical swine fever, officials said. The disease, contagious among animals but not transmissible to humans, was identified in the state of North...

Pig manure swamps German village
GERMANY - A village in the German state of Bavaria is recovering after being flooded with liquid pig manure, reports Reuters.

German farms test negative for dioxin, still closed
GERMANY - Tests on five farms in Germany put under quarantine because of fears pig feed was contaminated with the carcinogen dioxin have proved negative, but the farms remain sealed off, authorities said on Tuesday. Officials in the states of...

Europe's Dioxin Crisis Reaches Germany
GERMANY - Just days after the southern German state of Bavaria was hit by a new scandal involving mislabeled spoiled meat, Germany had to temporarily close off five pig farms suspected of using dioxin-contaminated animal feed. Pigs from several...

Eight stars for Big Dutchman innovations
GERMANY - Once again Big Dutchman receives official awards for its current new product developments.

First vaccine for the control of porcine Ileitis now available across Europe
GERMANY - Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH, have announced the pan-European launch of Enterisol® Ileitis, the first enteric vaccine to have received marketing authorization in the EU to improve pig’s weight gain and to reduce body weight variability....

Big Dutchman AG appoints new board member increasing support for production coordination and logistics
GERMANY - Sven Guericke from Oldenburg has been appointed Member of the Board of Management of Big Dutchman AG. As of October 1, 2005, the 48-year-old graduate of agricultural engineering will be responsible for the areas of production coordination and...

Spectacular step: Big Dutchman takes over HOWEMA
GERMANY - HOWEMA GmbH & Co. KG from Visbek-Wöstendöllen will within short be taken over by Big Dutchman Pig Equipment GmbH located in Vechta-Calveslage. These two renowned and internationally successful companies from the German district of Vechta will...

EDEKA Südwest and PIC Deutschland Sign Technology Contract for Meat Quality
GERMANY - PIC's German subsidiary, PIC Deutschland GmbH, has signed a contract with EDEKA Südwest Fleisch GmbH for collaboration on quality control for the EDEKA "Gutfleisch-Programm", a Premium Meat Programme. A pool of EDEKA Meat Quality...

GERMANY - A regional agriculture minister has promised to oppose attempts by the German government to goldplate the EU welfare regulations (which are already in force in UK).

Classical Swine Fever in Germany
GERMANY - Follow-up report No. 2. An outbreak of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) has been reported (via OIE) in the Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) Land, Germany

Difficult year ahead for German farmers
GERMANY - German consumer protection minister Renate Kunast (Green party) predicts that the current year will again be difficult for German farmers owing to the general weakness of the economy.