Vincent ter Beek
Editor and Journalist at Pig Progress
Journalist and editor of @PigProgress, multimedia B2B title on the global pig 🐷 business. Loves cats 🐱, travelling ✈, history 🏰, languages 🌍 and football ⚽.
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2 days ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
As precision livestock farming is proceeding, novel technologies continue to offer more detailed methods of capturing data of what is going on at a swine farm. For pig producers in Europe, it is now possible to administer and register pig vaccinations on animal level. MSD Animal Health presented “Swine Protect & Connect,” the latest development at a special press event preceding this year’s European Symposium for Porcine Health Management (ESPHM), in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 21.
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4 days ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Pig Progress was present at VIV Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, with 2 well frequented seminars. “Sustainability” was the 2nd theme that was highlighted, on Thursday, March 13. This article offers a quick recap and obviously the entire seminar can be re-viewed as well. Three expert speakers joined in for the sustainability topic in a seminar that lasted about 70 minutes. Each speaker took a different approach to “sustainability” which led to a seminar with a wide range of how to approach the topic.
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1 week ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Pig Progress was present at VIV Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, with 2 well frequented seminars. “Gut health” was one of the themes that was highlighted, on Wednesday, March 12. This article offers a quick recap and obviously the entire seminar can be re-viewed as well. The seminar featured 3 expert speakers in the field of gut health. The seminar, which lasted just over 1 hour, was introduced by Prof Dr Alongkot Boonsoongnern. He is lecturer at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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1 week ago |
pigprogress.net | Vincent ter Beek
Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3) might have a connection to the development of bone issues like a humpy back posture in pigs. Swiss researchers observed pigs with the posture and discovered that many of the animals tested positive for PCV3. The scientists, attached to the Vetsuisse-Faculty at the University of Zurich, were confronted with 36 piglets with identical unusual symptoms between March 2023 and August 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
dairyglobal.net | Vincent ter Beek
The toolbox with regard to feed safety has been filled with an additional component. In a special event preceding VIV Asia 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, this March, feed additive producer Kemin launched a new feed decontaminant. The product, called Prosidium, would be filling a hole in the market, according to the company. For a long time, formaldehyde was considered the gold standard when it came down to feed decontamination, intended for pigs, poultry and dairy cows, for example.
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