Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica has announced it will expand its operations in St Joseph, Missouri, with a $150 million project. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica said today it would expand its St. Joseph operations with a $150 million project that will create 124 jobs, reports The Kansas City Star.
Consumers, food and restaurant companies, WHO and various governments are requiring livestock farmers to produce meat raised with lower use of antimicrobial drugs. The discussion has moved on from analysing the potential risks that the use of antimicrobials in livestock can have on society to managing the new situation where pork producers will have to raise pigs using less, or even without, antibiotics. This is of course at the same time as a predicted increase in demand for protein, unprecedented restrictions on land and water use and rising input costs. What should producers do?
EUROPE - A major pig health conference took place in Nantes, France on April 21st with new evidence showing that the PRRS disease syndrome does more damage to the costs of pork producing herds across Europe than previously estimated.
US - Many of the key lessons gained from area regional control (ARC) programme targeted at PRRS virus over the last six years are now being used to help producers manage, monitor and share information on other swine diseases, including porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) and influenza, says Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. (BIVI).
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