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Pig Health & Disease

New diagnostics detect, treat pig diseases in hours

Pig producers must keep a close eye on their herds and record AND report any changes in behavior or health of their pigs. This was highlighted yet again—at a conference focusing on the rapid advances in diagnostics and the ability of laboratories to identify new diseases within hours, rather than months.

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Laboratory Products and Services

Neogen Reveal Q+ for T-2/HT-2 toxins, Ochratoxin

Neogen offers a Reveal Q+ test for T-2/HT-2 toxins and Ochratoxin. The T-2/HT-2 test delivers results ranging from 50 to 600 parts per billion of the toxins after a water extraction and six minutes. The Ochratoxin test provides results ranging from 2 to 20 parts per billion in nine minutes.

Pig Health & Disease

VIV Asia 2013 focuses on entire animal production, processing supply chain

VIV Asia 2013 will focus on animal feed and animal health as being vital for meat quality and safety. The show will be held March 13-15 in Bangkok, Thailand. In its role as international platform on animal production and meat processing, VIV Asia will showcase the industry's developments with this feed-to-meat concept. Feed to meat brings together supply and demand within the complete animal protein chain.

EuroTier 2012 to feature animal welfare information center

Premiering at EuroTier 2012, the Animal Welfare Information Center widens the scope of animal production issues presented at the world's foremost event for the livestock farming industry. Positioned in Hall 26 right across the DLG stand, the center will feature two daily roundtable discussions that will present opposing views of farmers and companies on animal welfare issues, and will be chaired by professionals from the animal welfare sector.

Novus International Sporulin direct-fed microbial

Novus International Inc.

Novus International offers Sporulin direct-fed microbial for poultry gut health. Sporulin is a blend of three strains of Bacillus subtilis. This probiotic can survive harsh conditions during feed pelleting and storage.

Hampel Animal Care Calf Tel Pen Front with height-adjustable buckets

Hampel Animal Care offers the Calf Tel Pen Front pen system with independent height adjustable buckets. The Pen Front system allows the bucket height to be adjusted independent of the pent front, as well as features a feed divider and wide door opening.

AB Vista ReaShure

ReaShure from AB Vista is a feed additive designed to improve cow health, milk production and reproduction. This fully protected choline product provides nutrition for cows during the pre- and post-calving transition period.

Business & Markets

New products show pig industry is looking to the future

The range of new pig products and innovations in equipment, production systems and techniques to improve health, welfare and general efficiency revealed at EuroTier and SPACE indicate that the international pig industry has its sights firmly fixed on the future.

Livestock & Poultry Diseases

EuroTier bookings show growth in poultry, pig, cattle sectors

By comparison with previous years, the stand bookings for EuroTier 2012 to date show a growth in the poultry, pig and cattle sectors, according to show organizers. Furthermore, the program in the cross-species exhibition sectors of climate control, feeds, animal health and veterinarian medicine as well as in other farm inputs has grown again, too.

Vietnam feed industry faces challenges from foreign competition

Vietnam's animal feed industry has been growing in recent years, and with that has come foreign competition and challenges for domestic suppliers, according to chairman of the Vietnam National Animal Husbandry Association, Professor Nguyen Dang Vang. The country's feed industry has grown an average of 11.8 percent per year, said Dang Vang.

Pig Health & Disease

Heavy metal contamination in pork offal focus of Thailand event

The theme of “sharing toxicological knowledge for healthy life and environment” was key at the 8th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries, held in Bangkok, Thailand, where attendees focused on the risks of heavy metal contamination in pork offal during a presentation given by Animine in association with Mahidol University (Thailand) and the French Institute for the Pig and Pork Industry.

Feed Production by Region

New Zealand’s Tegel Poultry achieves world’s best feed conversion

Tegel Poultry focuses on the five pillars of agricultureperformance to achieve the world’s best broiler feed conversion ratio of 155.

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