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Topigs Norsvin Topigs Norsvin appointed Javier Corchero (pictured) as general manager for Topigs Norsvin Es- paña. From 1 March, Corchero will take over from Alfonso Are- nillas Lorente. In addition, there have been three appoint- ments since 1 January. The com- pany appointed Mariano Rangil as executive director for AIM Iberica, the company’s artificial insemination activities in Spain. US vet Dr Mitch Christensen was appointed as chief veterinary officer for Topigs Norsvin International. Last but not least, Anne Staadegaard-Huijbers joined the company in the Netherlands as health advisor.
Boehringer Ingelheim Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health appointed Ran- dolph Legg as its US president. He succeeds Everett Hoekstra, who retired in December. Legg will remain head of the company’s US commercial business.
Arm & Hammer Steve Bourne has joined Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Pro- duction as Eurasian sales director, strengthening the company’s presence in Oceania, Asia, Eu- rope, the Middle East and Africa.
Elanco In December, Elanco Animal Health appointed William F. Doyle to the board of directors. The company also ex- panded the board and appointed Scott Ferguson and Paul Herendeen.
Nedap Nedap Livestock Management has added two people to its North American livestock sales team. Carl Herrmann and Hol- ly Hutchinson (pictured) joined as sales account executives. In these roles, both will work with Nedap business partners and new and existing swine customers.
Skov After 16 years as CEO of Danish ventilation company Skov, Jørgen Yde Jensen resigned on 15 January 2021 and passed the baton to Leo Østergaard. Jensen joined the company’s board in January 2021.
32 ▶ PIG PROGRESS | Volume 37, No. 1, 2021 Webinar on young animal care
‘What if… young animals don’t get the right care?’ That question was key in a recent webinar by All About Feed and the Royal Agrifirm Group. The webinar is now available to review for free. The webinar, featuring three expert speakers, was organised late 2020 for the occasion of the launch of Agrifirm’s new young animal nutrition brand: Earlyfeed. Loek de Lange (pictured right), private consultant poultry nutrition at Loek’s Feed, approached the issue from a nutritionist’s point of view. He summed up a series of conse- quences of a bad start, such as increased mortality, overgrowth of intestinal microbes, reduced animal performance for the total growing out
period and, obviously, less profit. The second speaker was Robert Hoste (left), who viewed the question from an economic perspective. He is senior pig production economist at Wage- ningen Economic Research, part of Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. He took an eco- nomic approach to answer the same question. After a question and answer session, Gudo klein Gebbink (inserted head- shot), managing director EMEA with Agrifirm, closed the webinar. He gave a detailed introduction of the company’s view on young animal care, in light of the launch of the new brand. He also mentioned the establishment of the Earlyfeed Academy.
Research targets E. coli in pigs
Canadian scientists are working on the development of edible antibody thera- peutics that can protect human and animal health by preventing Escheri- chia coli 0157 infection in pigs. The team consists of scientists attached to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Western University, in Lon- don, ON, Canada together with Cana- dian biopharmaceutical company PlantForm. The two-year research pro- ject, building on previous AAFC
research, will use the company’s tobac- co-plant-based platform to express therapeutic antibody fragments that target E. coli. The plants are then given to pigs as a feed additive. The research- ers aim to show that antibodies in the plants will reduce E. coli infection and transmission by interacting with the animals’ natural defence systems to block the pathogen’s ability to colonise the gut wall and prevent shedding of E. coli in faeces.
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