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Topigs Norsvin Topigs Norsvin appointed Villaume Kal, age 49, as its new CEO. He will form part of the company’s board of directors alongside the current directors. He started in his new position on 16 March 2020 and will succeed Martin Bijl, who left Topigs Norsvin in 2019.
Zinpro
Animal nutrition company Zinpro announced that Dr Flore Suter (pictured) has joined the company as sen- ior regional marketing asso- ciate for Europe and South Africa. The company also ap- pointed two sales and mar- keting professionals in Japan: Shuntaro Tsumaki, a sales manager, and Takeyuki Harada, a marketing and sales support specialist. Last, but not least, Zinpro also appointed Matt Douglas as new enterprise leader for North America.
EW Nutrition EW Nutrition USA has selected its CEO, Scott Moore, an experienced top player in the animal health and nutrition industry. He was appointed to lead the German-based company into a new decade of expansion through improved customer-centric solutions.
Agromed Austria-based feed addi- tives company Agromed hired Stefan Hirtenleh- ner for its R&D team. Ap- pointed as R&D manager at agromed, Hirtenlehner’s re- sponsibilities comprise the management of scientific and field trials.
National Pork Board The US National Pork Board has announced a range of new appointments. Jerry Flint is assuming the role of Chief Operations Officer; Jarrod Sutton is now senior vice president of strategy and innovation; Angie Krieger has been promoted to vice president of domestic marketing; Brett Kaysen is the new vice president of sustainability; Dave Pyburn, DVM is the NPB’s chief veterinarian and Jill Criss is now senior vice president of human resources and administration.
32 ▶PIG PROGRESS | Volume 36, No. 2, 2020 Pigs thrive on protein from clover grass
Experiments carried out at Denmark’s Aarhus University (AU) have demon- strated that green protein extracted from clover grass is a very useful diet for pigs, in terms of pig welfare, growth and feed use as well as meat quality and taste. Within the frame- work of the project SuperGrassPork, re- searchers from the Department of Ani- mal Science at AU carried out a feeding experiment in organic pigs, which were fed compound feed with protein extracted from clover grass. The project purpose was to examine the effect achieved when part of the traditional protein – typically soya – was replaced by protein extracted from locally produced clover grass. The experiment was accomplished as a dosage-response trial, and the re- search results demonstrated that the pigs are doing well with up to 15% grass protein in their feed rations. Dr Lene Stødkilde, researcher at the uni- versity’s Department of Animal
Science, said: “Our results are very pos- itive, as the use of protein extracted from clover grass has huge potential in several areas. Firstly, it will secure the supply of locally grown protein for the increasing production of organic pigs in Denmark; and secondly, the cultiva- tion of grass will increase productivity in the fields and – at the same time – contribute to reduce nitrogen leaching and pesticide use.” The results from the feeding experiment demonstrated that the pigs were thriving equally on all types of feed, as there was no differ- ence in the pigs’ weight, growth, feed intake or feed utilisation. That meant that feed taste did not affect the pigs’ inclination to eat the feed, and the nu- trients were used equally for all feed types. In addition, no health problems were observed for any of the groups during the experiment. The group of pigs fed 15% clover grass protein also had a higher meat percentage com- pared to the other groups.
Unexpected amount of resistance genes
Scottish researchers have identified a high number of antimicrobial resist- ance genes in pig faeces at a commer- cial farm, following the first longitudi- nal study of its kind. The study was carried out by researchers at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and the Universi- ty of Edinburgh, both in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The outcomes were pub- lished in the peer-reviewed publica- tion Scientific Reports, published by Nature. The study was carried out
during a single production cycle on a commercial pig unit with a high histor- ic and current antimicrobial usage. Quoted on the SRUC website, Profes- sor Michael Hutchings, head of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, said: “At the start of the study we hoped to find two or three genes to follow their numbers through the pig production cycle. The richness of antimicrobial re- sistance genes and their numbers were unexpected.”
PHOTO: AGROMED
PHOTO: FLORE SUTER
PHOTO: TOPIGS NORSVIN
PHOTO: AARHUS UNIVERSITY/ LINDA S. SØRENSEN
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