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The creator of Dolly the sheep has called for farmers to take up cloning as a way of producing cheap food. Professor Keith Campbell believes the country's farms should be populated by superstrong, super-sized offspring of clones. The US expects to be eating clone-farmed burgers, pork and bacon within two years, and supporters of the method say Europe must follow suit. A US clone cow has already been born on a British farm for the first time, making Frankenstein Farming a...
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Hypor signs deal to ship thousands of pigs to Russia Hypor B.V, a Hendrix Genetics company and Znamensky Selekcionno-Gibridny Center LLC, an Exima company have signed an agreement to co-operate in the field of pig breeding in Russia. After a careful selection of potential suppliers of genetics, Exima JSC which owns the Mikoyan meat processing plant, has chosen Hypor as the supplier of purebred animals to produce (Great)Grand Parent...
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Advances in swine productivity through genetic selection, management, health and nutritional strategies have resulted in reproductive performance once unimaginable. Feed efficiencies during the growing and finishing phase of production have improved in the range of 25% over the past 15 years (Fremaut, 2003). Sow reproductive efficiency has shown equal improvement and the biological potential of today’s modern, hyperprolific genotypes is truly staggering (Close and Cole, 2001; Johnson, 2006;...
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Britain's leading pig breeding company, JSR Genetics, welcomed delegates from around the world to a two day World Partners Conference in Yorkshire. Delegates from ten countries including Japan, South Korea and The Netherlands came together as part of JSR's growing franchise business, which now operates in over 20 countries. Under the theme "Making Pork more Profitable" delegates undertook a wide range of activities including updates on JSR's extensive portfolio of research projects. Led...
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TOPIGS enters Romania With the appointment of Genetic Material Ft as distributor of TOPIGS genetics in Romania, TOPIGS has started activities in yet another country. In 2007, Genetic Material Ft will also start with the production of TOPIGS genetics. On top of this, a farm with 600 sows will start producing TOPIGS-40 sows and an AI centre will be set up. Genetic Material Ft is a company active in the trade of one-day chickens...
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Yorkshire-based genetics company, ACMC Ltd, has won a major contract to supply breeding stock to Bowes of Norfolk Ltd, one of the UK’s largest farming and pig-processing enterprises.
ACMC will supply 1,660 ACMC’s AC1 gilts from its high-health multiplication unit in Scotland over the next 12 months. Once the stock is integrated, and in full production it will have the capability of producing more 35,000 finished pigs annually.
The AC1, containing Chinese Meishan genes, is renowned for its...
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With an export of 20 breeding pigs to Ecuador, TOPIGS subsidiary Deporgen has introduced TOPIGS genetics to a tenth country in its region.
TOPIGS is now present in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Suriname and EcuadorTogether these countries house 850,000 sows.
Deporgen works in these countries through trade representatives and in several countries franchisees are responsible for the local production of TOPIGS genetics.
The...
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PIC has appointed Jason Zhu to the position of General Manager of PIC China. He brings more than 19 years of agribusiness experience in China and Canada, including 7 years as business management and marketing specialist of the China Canada Lean Swine Project.
Since 2002 he worked for Hypor in China, initially as Sales Manager and then Chief Representative. Jason is a graduate of the Northwestern Agricultural University, Shaanxi and holds an MSc and MBA from the University of...
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International pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd has appointed a new team to run their Vantage Boar Stud for AI at Wassand, near Hull, in Yorkshire, following the retirement of Richard and Christine Wilson.
Taking over as stud manager is Mark Carline who, for the last five years, has run the company’s in-house stud supplying its own breeding pyramid — where he has been achieving conception rates of over 90 per cent.
He will be assisted by laboratory technicians Carmen Martinez, who has...
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JSR continues its growth through investment in people with the arrival of Dr Carlos Peralta based in Mexico.
Commenting on his appointments Tim Rymer, JSR Chairman said “We are delighted that Dr Peralta has decided to join our Worldwide Development Team. His arrival complements our recent expansion in China and reflects our commitment to meeting the demands of a competitive global market.”
Dr Carlos Peralta, recently with PIC as Managing Director of Latin America, sees an opportunity to...
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Prolificacy, in pigs, has increased substantially during the last 10 years after several decades of stagnation. Two main approaches have been followed in order to develop the so-called ‘hyperprolific’ lines of pigs. The first approach is based on crossbreeding between occidental and Chinese breeds, known for their high litter size. In this case, the litter size improvement is due mainly to a higher embryo survival rather than an increase in ovulation rate. However, the poor meat quality...
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Against international competition, Beeford-based pig-breeding company ACMC has secured an order from a farming company in Thailand for breeding stock worth more than £250,000.
The great-grandparent and grandparent Meidam, Volante and Vantage boars and gilts are to be used to stock a new 500-sow nucleus unit for Banglen Farms, Nakhonpathom Province, in the centre of the country.
This will enable them to expand their pig-farming operation to 1,000 sows.
The breeding stock from ACMC's...
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JSR has set up a franchise for JSR Genetics stock in Vietnam - Asia's second largest pig producer after China - in partnership with Korea's largest pig breeding company Darby Genetics.
"JSR is delighted to have signed an agreement with such a large and well-established organisation. The deal provides us with a fantastic opportunity to accelerate our progress in Asia and to further reaffirm the international standing of the UK's genetics," said JSR chairman Tim Rymer.
JSR has exported 500...
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Innovis Ltd, which is a multi-species operation, works in close partnership with PIC in the operation of two GTCs and supplies all PIC’s AI products and semen processing services. New products: Flatpack X5i A number of new products have recently been developed, including the new X5i. This is the fifth innovation to the original flatpack. The bag is similar to the current flatpack but has a permanent seal with a ridged edge for better insertion and grip on the...
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Mark Anderson, chairman of the company Absolute Swine Insemination Co. will be one of the prestigious speakers to address special lectures during this year edition of Vietstock Conference, to be held in Vietnam on December 6-8, 2006, at Phu Tho Indoor Stadium, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Mr. Anderson has entitled his review “Absolute Improvement in Swine Productivity Using Safe Intra-Uterine/Post Cervical Insemination”, which will include information about ASIC’s exclusive technology on AI applied...
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International pig breeding company Hypor , today announced the appointment of Geert Rutten to the position of General Manager China for the Joint Ventures, Sichuan Hypor New Hope Pig Breeding Farm and Shandong Hypor Liuhe Pig Breeding Farm.
“Geert brings 30 years of commercial and technical expertise in the pig breeding industry and with Hypor to his new role in China. “ said Marc Broadbent, Managing Director for Hypor China. He has successfully started up breeding farms and managed...
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Hypor Canada today announced the appointment of Lambert Houwen to the position of Production Manager, Hypor Canada. A member of the Hypor Canada team since 2003, Lambert began his career in the swine genetics business with Hypor Netherlands in 1985.
Presently responsible for the Canadian Technical Service team, Houwen will serve in both positions concurrently, pending the appointment of a new Technical Service Manager.
“Lambert brings a wide-ranging and impressive skill set,” says...
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Absolute Swine Insemination Co. LLC has received numerous enquiries about their patented membrane technology being used for ovine, bovine, and other species. ASIC confirmed they do in fact have a concept catheter on the drawing board for sheep; and also stated they welcome interested parties to participate in the feasibility and development of this product line. The ovine catheter under consideration is expected to be cleverly named the...
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The challenge to get sows and gilts to cycle and then maintain subsequent pregnancy occurs every year. But with vets in some parts of the UK reporting increased incidence of reduced appetite resulting in failure to come on heat and, therefore, increased weaning to service intervals, producers are likely to be looking at ways of improving sow fertility. BPEX AI programme manager Angela Cliff says there is no definite pattern with infertility, so it is vital to provide sows with the...
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ACMC's new German franchisees - Hans Gerd Behrens and Jens Uwe Stiefel, as well as senior management - will be on the company's stand (No C06/F, Hall 26) for the first time at EuroTier, which takes place on 14-17th November in Hanover.
The British pig genetics business, which has been expanding rapidly in Europe - opening up new markets in Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia and Romania - anticipates strong interest in its products at this event.
As well as giving an extra pig a litter on...
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