Carol Stream, IL, - - March 4, 2010 - - Premium Ingredients International announces the recent addition of Donnie Moran as the new Sales & Marketing Manager, Feed Flavors/Ingredients. onnie brings to Premium over twenty years of experience in the feed industry and associated animal production side. “His past involvement with specialty and valueadded feed ingredients for such companies as Agrimerica, Land O’ Lakes Feed, Kemin Agrifoods, Balchem, Monsanto and most recently Newsham Choice Genetics, provides the diversity we are looking for to lead our agriculture and pet food opportunities”, says Rich Calabrese, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Premium Ingredients.

Premium Ingredients International, who has a strong customer base of Feed & Pet Food manufacturers, has now gained more momentum into the agricultural feed business with the recent acquisition of Crest Feed Ingredient Company. This acquisition and subsequent synergy with Premium Ingredients will allow a more concentrated more

Pigbase, TOPIGS breeding database, now contains data from more than 20 million breeding pigs. With this it is by far the biggest database of its kind in the world. The piglet that became the 20 millionth pig in Pigbase was born on 15 February at the TOPIGS nucleus breeding farm in Rio Verde, Brazil.

In Pigbase, all data from TOPIGS breeding pigs are checked and stored so that the breeding values of all current breeding pigs can be calculated on a daily basis. That facilitates a more precise selection for a quick and balanced genetic progress. This results in pigs with a high predisposition for traditional key outcomes such as carcass quality, growth, feed conversion, litter size et cetera. Yet in addition to these, new characteristics such as vitality, sustainability, mothering characteristics and social behaviour are also genetically improved in the TOPIGS breeding programme.

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Dr. Luke Minion, CEO of Pipestone System affiliated companies and Tim Hinton, Vice President of Big Gain, Inc. announce a new joint venture, Big Stone Marketing, LLC with Brian Stevens as its president. Big Stone Marketing, LLC, owned jointly by Pipestone and Big Gain, Inc. will provide marketing, risk management and verification services to all Pipestone System members and Big Gain customers.

Dr. Minion further announced Brian Stevens as President of Big Stone Marketing, LLC. Mr. Stevens has spent 19 years at Hormel Foods and most recently held the title of Director of Procurement. “We are excited that Brian is joining us to lead the Big Stone Marketing team and are confident that his long history of service to the swine industry will provide a great foundation for future growth for all Pipestone System and Big Gain producers. Organizing Big Stone Marketing and appointing Brian Stevens are part of more

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (March 4, 2010) – Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI), announces the promotion of Cory Sullivan to associate director of Public Relations and Communications. Sullivan, who joined BIVI in June 2008, was associate director of Human Resources and Public Relations.

In her new role, Sullivan is responsible for the development and implementation of internal and external BIVI communications, including community outreach programs and employee communications activities for the company’s nearly 1,700 U.S. employees. In addition, she is responsible for all corporate media relations and serves as communications liaison with Boehringer Ingelheim USA in Ridgefield, Conn.

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Des Moines, Iowa, March 1, 2010 — MarketSense, Inc. has announced the hiring of Tina Greiman as a senior consultant. In this role she will conduct and manage qualitative market research projects and provide marketing consulting services for clients in the animal health and other agriculture –related industries. She will be based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Most recently, Greiman was a marketing consultant at Elanco Animal Health with responsibility for the knowledge solutions platform, the Benchmark® Performance Program and growth promotant products. Prior to that, she was a product manager and sales manager at VetLife for thirteen years where she assisted with the launch and growth of the Component® with Tylan® brand of implant products, HeifermaX® and the Benchmark Performance Program. Greiman also served as a national accounts representative at ADM Animal Health and Nutrition and held several sales and national account management positions at Syntex Animal more

U.S. exports of agricultural-related machinery totaled nearly $8 billion in 2009, a 23-percent drop compared to the previous year, with the largest declines in business to Europe and South America, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The AEM trade group consolidates U.S. Commerce Department data for off-road equipment with other sources into quarterly export trend reports.

“Our manufacturers operate in a global marketplace, and the farm equipment sector as well has been adversely affected by this worldwide recession after several years of strong export growth,” stated AEM President Dennis Slater. “For example, prior to 2009, the export market for agricultural equipment had been expanding with double-digit increases since 2004. Current economic conditions, including limited access to credit, remain challenging in many countries and have led to a slowdown in business.”

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T-L Irrigation Co., the manufacturer of hydrostatically powered pivot irrigation systems, was recently recognized by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for the development of their “ULTRA Linear System”. The ULTRA Linear System was deemed one of the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture industries.

The ULTRA Linear System maximizes irrigated areas by using one machine. It can operate in either linear or pivot modes and can be towed to different fields, allowing maximum flexibility for the end user. When combined with the T-L’s exclusive hydrostatically-powered drive train and their Precision Linear Control the ULTRA Linear achieves maximum water distribution uniformity.

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Offering the first-ever mycotoxin webinar series on YouTube, BIOMIN aims to build up this unique database with a wider range of speakers and topics in 2010.

February 24, 2010 - Mycotoxins continue to pose a key challenge to feed and livestock producers everywhere. Ingesting contaminated feed has been proven to drastically hurt the health and performance of animals, and eventually, the bottom-line in animal farming.

Addressing this common scourge of the livestock industry, BIOMIN in August 2009 launched the Mycotoxin Channel on YouTube. The Channel has proven to be a hit, garnering more than 14,000 visits to date despite its niche subject by successfully meeting the need for information on mycotoxin issues in an easily accessible and well presented media format.

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Unusual Water Reading May Indicate Trouble

New York (March 1, 2010)—Pfizer Animal Health is releasing the 10th scenario for the “Virtual Walk the Pens” simulator. In this scenario, the virtual finishing barn has reduced water use, according to the meters. Players must walk the pens and determine if a disease outbreak is threatening the finishers in the virtual barn. The virtual veterinarian is on hand to analyze player’s findings and offer advice.

The simulator is an online educational tool that can be played from any standard computer and is intended to help demonstrate the importance of Individual Pig Care.

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