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Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer The Düsseldorf, Germa- ny-based animal nutrition company Deutsche Tier- nahrung Cremer will now be led by a quartet. Ulrich Arning (pictured at top) will take care of production and administration; Dr Heinrich Kleine Klaus- ing will head product con- cepts and mineral feed; Thomas Bernsmann will cover distribution; and Miguel Diaz Martinez (pictured below) will be re- sponsible for purchase and supply chain management.
Borregaard LignoTech Dave Taylor has joined Borregaard LignoTech as area business manager for the company’s feed additive busi- ness in the Americas. He was previously at Trouw Nutrition USA and will be responsible for the company’s develop- ment in the Americas.
Standard Nutrition Services Graydon Bell has joined Nebraska, US-based Standard Nutrition Services (SNS) as a business development manag- er. In this role, he will develop new business opportunities and alliances nationwide, lead strategic plan development and implementation and work with specialists and consult- ants in the field on business development and strategic initiatives.
Stonehaven Consulting Matthias Hofer has been appointed managing partner of Stonehaven Consulting, taking over leadership of the com- pany from George Gunn. Hofer was formerly a partner and has over 15 years of experience in the animal health sector.
Zinpro Minerals company Zinpro hired nutritionist Sihai Shao as technical sales manager, to provide sup- port for customers in China and the North Asia region. He has held previous Chi- na-based roles as a sales manager for a veterinary biotechnology company and as a key account manager for an animal pharmaceutical company.
32 ▶PIG PROGRESS | Volume 36, No. 5, 2020 Review webinar on fewer antibiotics
Yeast solutions can play a prominent nutritional role in overcoming the nega- tive consequences of weaning for young piglets. That was the main mes- sage of a webinar held on Wednesday 27 May by Phileo by Lesaffre and pow- ered by Pig Progress and its sister title All About Feed. It can be viewed through
www.pigprogress.net. The webinar was kicked off by Dr Meg- an Edwards, independent nutritionist at Integral Nutrition, based in Vietnam. She described the challenges weaner pigs face once they are weaned, and she zoomed in on nutritional solutions that are available for pork producers to alleviate the effects. She concluded that “heavy metals and antibiotics have po- tentially covered up some of our nutri- tional shortcomings in the past”. Dr Tadele Kiros, global R&D manager swine, of Phileo by Lesaffre, addressed
the effect of probiotic yeast strain Sc 47 on pig gut microbiota. He said that modification of gut microbiota can be a tool to reduce antibiotics usage. He shared the results of two trials showing that probiotic yeast can modify gut mi- crobiota of piglets towards beneficial bacteria. The last speaker was Shen Fei Long, PhD researcher at China Agricultural University and North Carolina State University. He also presented two trials, where the effects of yeast supplemen- tation were measured on healthy weaned pigs and those challenged with Escherichia coli. He concluded: “Live yeast can be antibiotic and zinc oxide substitutes on improving growth performance, nutrient digestibility, se- rum immunoglobulin, antioxidant sta- tus and volatile fatty acids in faeces of weaned pigs.”
Optimism about ASF vaccine trials
There is optimism about the African Swine Fever vaccine candidate being developed by the Harbin Veterinary Re- search Institute. According to the Chi- nese ministry of agriculture, trials showed positive early results. These were carried out between April and June, in three breeding bases in the provinces Heilongjiang, Henan and Xin- jiang. Around 3,000 pigs received the vaccine. First results showed that vacci- nated piglets grew normally and
showed no obvious adverse effects. No pathological changes were found in the anatomy of vaccinated pigs, and no ob- vious differences were found between the vaccine group and the control group. The overall mortality rate was below 1%, with no miscarriages in sows or dif- ferences in litter sizes. The vaccinated pigs are neither shedding nor transmit- ting the virus. Tests for the clinical effi- cacy are still underway.
PHOTO: ZINPRO
PHOTO: DEUTSCHE TIERNAHRUNG CREMER
PHOTO: DEUTSCHE TIERNAHRUNG CREMER
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