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Dalland Value Added Pork Inc. continues to be one of Saskatchewan’s Fastest Growing Companies
Dr. Ir. Alfred de Vries will give new impulse to development
Dalland do Brasil expands production capacity with 1,500 sows
Other News Releases from 2000
Dalland Value Added Pork signs distribution contract for Ontario, Canada
Dutch Ambassador and Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture visit Dalland Value Added Pork
Kipling, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 10 2000 - The Dutch Ambassador to Canada, Dirk Jan Van Houten, and Saskatchewan’s Minister of Agriculture, Dwain Lingenfelter, visit Dalland as part of a week long tour of the province. Discussion surrounded the development of the swine industry in the province and opportunities for immigrants.
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His Excellency Dirk Jan Van Houten, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Canada, accompanied by Deputy Premier and Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture and Food Dwain Lingenfelter visited Dalland Value Added Pork at Kipling. The Ambassador was in Saskatchewan for a weeklong tour at the invitation of the Saskatchewan government. Dalland was included in the Ambassador’s visit as a successful illustration of the Dutch hog industry involvement in Saskatchewan. Coincidentally, Dirk Jan Van Houten was Ambassador to Beijing in 1997 when the Dutch government gifted The People’s Republic of China a training farm for swine production. Because the Netherlands broke with Classical Swine Fever, Dalland Value Added Pork supplied the 341 pigs. His Excellency was posted to Canada later that year. |
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Ambassador’s delegation included Mr. Aart Jan Marie Verdegaal, Consul
General of the Netherlands stationed in Vancouver, and Mr. Willem De
Lint, Dutch Honorary Consul of the Netherlands for Saskatchewan.
At the beginning of the one hour meeting, Dalland presented our company and Dutch connections. Included was a description of our markets, competitive advantages and the benefits this province has to offer. A stimulating discussion developed on the opportunities for business in the province, the possibilities in the swine industry and the potential for immigration of hog producers to the province. Ways were discussed to attract immigrants to Saskatchewan. The Dutch delegation, Mr. Lingenfelter and Glen Snyder, Lorne Rygh and Jan Miskiman on Dalland’s behalf produced very pro-active ideas to initiate developments. |
Media from the area interviewed the dignitaries. During the press time, the Dutch Ambassador spoke of the large swine industry in the Netherlands and the current legislated scaling back in production that is displacing some Dutch hog producers.
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Mr. Lingenfelter said Saskatchewan has room for expansion of hog production and is a logical choice for operations of this type. “It welcomes immigration of experienced hog producers from the Netherlands and Denmark. If you look at the numbers on cost of production, Saskatchewan is the lowest cost area, has a clean environment, is cold part of the year which lowers the disease threat, and has wide open spaces. We can use the manure to our advantage to replace chemical fertilizer. And with top genetics such as Dalland’s from the Netherlands we have success.” |
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The Ambassador and Mr. Verdegaal also spoke about other possible ventures and expertise available from the Netherlands. The Netherlands geographic base is a river delta. Rotterdam is a port with access to both the North Sea and to the Danube, which goes into the whole of Europe. Mr. Verdegaar said that this created opportunities for Canadian entrepreneurs as well, “We see Holland as the gateway to the European Union, a stepping stone for Canada to export into the EU.”
The Ambassador spoke of this gateway function, “Because the Netherlands is the gateway to Europe, we have expertise in shipping, services, transport, insurance, banking, and communication. The basis of our economy and industry is trade; we are experts at recycling goods, a very efficient and integrated system.“
The Ambassador ended the interview with this comment, “I want to add that the Dutch are very close in outlook, life style and value systems to the Canadians. This results in comfortable business relationships and makes Canada a place for immigrants to easily establish new roots.”
Among those accompanying the Ambassador and Mr.
Lingenfelter were Debbie Saum of the Protocol Office, Maryellen Carlson of
Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, Norm Janssen of Saskatchewan Pork Central and
Nadine Sawchyn, Ministerial Assistant to Mr. Lingenfelter.
PRESS
RELEASE
Dalland Value Added Pork Inc. continues to be one of Saskatchewan’s Fastest Growing Companies
The Saskatchewan Business Fastest Growing Companies issue listed Dalland Value Added Pork as the 12th fastest growing business in Saskatchewan. This result is based on the last three years average growth of the companies who responded to the survey. In 1999, Dalland VAP had an increase in sales of 119.7% and an annual growth rate of 39.9%. The previous year Dalland placed 9th on the list with an increase in sales of 254% and an annual growth rate of 101.6%.
Staffing at Dalland VAP has increased as well. The 1998 results list Dalland Value Added Pork with 15 staff. Currently Dalland VAP has 21 employees but contract staff, the truck washout and transportation staff brings the count to 37 people.
Also interesting to note is that Dalland is one of the few agricultural based companies on this success list. “The Saskatchewan economy has become much more diversified”, said Keith Moen, writer of the article (Saskatchewan Business February 2000).
Glen Snyder, General Manager for Dalland Value Added Pork attributes the company’s rapid growth to two major factors, consistent quality of a high health product and client service that meets or exceeds customers’ expectations. The challenge to maintaining the exceptional growth in the future is to continue to satisfy the overwhelming demands from new prospects without sacrificing product quality and service to existing and new clients.
Dalland Value Added Pork Inc.’s corporate long term goal is to be the number one supplier of quality swine genetics to the pork industry in North America. “We strongly believe that by providing a consistent high health product that adds value to all the participants within the pork sector including consumers in the short term, will naturally provide us with the opportunity to be the number one supplier in the long term,” states Glen Snyder, General Manager. Additional factors contributing to Dalland’s success is their emphasis on genetic research and development that provides their clients downstream with significant economic and financial advantages.
Dr. Ir. Alfred de
Vries will give new impulse to development
Technical Director for TOPIGS
Vught , The Netherlands, 5 June 2000 - Dr. Alfred de Vries is appointed as Technical Director at TOPIGS. This position is completely new in the TOPIGS organisation. From 1 September 2000, De Vries will coordinate the further development in the international breeding programs. TOPIGS again proves its worldwide promise: Progress in Pigs.
Starting 1 September 2000, TOPIGS has appointed Dr. Alfred de Vries as Technical Director for the total organisation. The position is completely new in the TOPIGS organisation and will focus on coordinating the further development in the international breeding programs and the service to the TOPIGS clients. With this appointment TOPIGS strengthens the Development and Support side of the company. This fits perfectly in the challenge that TOPIGS has made itself: advancement of global pig breeding.
Pig experience
De Vries graduated at the Agricultural University of
Wageningen in the Netherlands in 1984. After that he completed his PhD study in
1989 titled: ‘Selection on production and reproduction traits in pigs’. From
1989 till 1995 De Vries worked at IVO (Institute for Animal Husbandry) at Zeist
as head of Meat Science department (the Institute is now called the Institute
for Animal Science and Health, ID-Lelystad). As of 1995 De Vries worked for PIC
Europe as Technical Director. In brief, he has a solid knowledge of pig
breeding.
Second in the world
TOPIGS operates in 27 countries, with a sales figure of
650,000 gilts. That makes TOPIGS the world’s second largest pig breeding
group. At TOPIGS, pig farmers throughout the world can choose top quality pigs
at competitive prices. The TOPIGS Total Programme can provide many new
combinations with additional hybridisation advantages such as extra vitality,
better fertility and slaughtering properties. The programme combines the best of
the Dalland and Stamboek breeding programmes.
Contact:
Mr. Jan van Vugt or Mr. Paul Vriesekoop, TOPIGS
Tel: (+)31.411.64.88.00
Fax: (+)31.411.64.88.06
Email: International@topigs.com
This is the first group of animals delivered by TOPIGS de Mexico from Canada. More shipments of animals will follow, according to TOPIGS International managing director Mr. Paul W. J. Vriesekoop.
Vriesekoop: “The high health status of the Dalland lines in Canada and the good performance of the Dalland product ensures us of success in Mexico in the future.”
The Dalland product is very successful under hot, tropical circumstances as has been proven in countries like the Philippines, South Africa, Costa Rica and above all Brasil. Vriesekoop:” The most important aspect is that Dalland animals, both sows and finishers, keep eating although it is very warm. This ensures good milk producton by the sows, less loss of body weight during the nursing period, quick return to heat, good growth of the piglets and fast growth of the finishers”.
Contact:
Paul Vriesekoop, TOPIGS International, The Netherlands
phone: (+).31.411.648.870
fax: (+).31.411.648.803
email: international@topigs.com
Brasil, 22 April 2000 - Dalland do Brasil, wholly owned
by and representative of TOPIGS International in Brasil, has signed a production
contract with Agrogen, company for genetic development. With this contract
Dalland do Brasil adds a new production capacity of 1,500 sows for its expanding
market share in Brasil.
The contract between Dalland do Brasil and Agrogen comprises
the building of a production facility for 1,500 sows, including rearing and
finishing. This will be a closed herd. The herd will exist of 350 nucleus
animals, 150 boar mother sows and 1,000 Grand Parent Sows. The facility will be
built and managed by the company, Agrogen, in Montenegro in the Brasilian state,
Rio Grande do Sul.
Agrogen is a genetic development company, focussing on the production of parent stock for poultry and pig breeders. The facility will be populated from the SPF nucleus farm in Guarapuave in the state of Parana. The farm is very well isolated and strict biosecurity measures will be taken to secure the health status of this new facility.
Expanding marketshare
Dalland do Brasil is the second pig breeding company in
Brasil with nucleus farms in the states of Parana (2) and Goias. The new
facility will produce for the Brasilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa
Catarina where Dalland do Brasil is expanding its market share. Also this
facility is envisioned to produce for the other MercoSul countries Uruguay,
Paraguay, Argentina and Chile when the states Rio Grande do Sul and Santa
Catarina will officially be declared free of Foot and Mouth disease and
Classical Swine Fever.
Contact:
Hermanus Wigman, Dalland do Brasil
phone: (+).55.19.256.7100
fax: (+).55.19.256.7100
email: dalland@dalland.com.br
Paul Vriesekoop, TOPIGS International, The Netherlands
phone: (+).31.411.648.870
fax: (+).31.411.648.803
email: international@topigs.com
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Pork International Genetic Improvement Centre (IGIC) began testing in
January 2000. The 8,000 square foot facility, costing $500,000 dollars,
adjoins the 500 sow genetic nucleus at Kipling. The facility can test
2500 animals per year and utilizes electronic (IVOG) feeding stations.
Dalland VAP is the North American daughter company of TOPIGS of the Netherlands, one of 26 worldwide. The Dutch swine genetics company mergers of 1996 and 1998 uniting Dalland, Stamboek and Fomeva grant TOPIGS the majority of the Dutch swine industry and the lead in continental European swine production. |
The first group of Dalland Genetic Improvement test animals pay strict attention as Ken Clark introduces them to their feeders. |
When Glen Snyder, General Manager for Dalland VAP, was asked the importance of the Genetic Improvement Centre, he replied, “The market today is end product driven and the end product in the swine industry is Pork. Today’s Producers demand that their genetic company provide the foremost genetics to allow them to remain competitive.”
Dalland, now through TOPIGS, has a two point research program. The first component is real research undertaken through the Institute for Pig Genetics (IPG), the research and genetic arm of TOPIGS. The second includes a genetic improvement program on the pure line animals and testing of the end product on selected commercial farms. Here we ensure the pure lines produce the best end product - the Dalland F1 / C40 gilt and the Dalland finisher.
In 1998, TOPIGS extended their Genetic Improvement program to four cornerstones worldwide, based in the Netherlands/Germany/Belgium, France, Brazil and Canada. Within the TOPIGS program Canada has been given an important role in international breeding. Dalland VAP will undertake the full genetic improvement program and will specialize in finishing and carcass quality.
The test protocol allows the animals to grow at the maximum pace and to higher weights. IVOG feedings stations are used as the last test, to select for best growth, feed conversion, back fat and loin depth; with this information we can calculate the efficiency in the most critical period of finishing. These data are very important to producers as marketing weights are increasing and improved feed conversion results in cost savings. The IGIC ensures that Dalland continually provides its producers a competitive advantage in a global marketplace.
Contact:
Glen Snyder, General Manager
Dalland Value Added Pork
Tel: 306-736-2799
Fax: 306-736-2797
Cell: 306-736-7691
TOPIGS NOW OPERATES IN 26 COUNTRIES
Guatemala, 09 April 2000 - TOPIGS now operates in 26 countries. TOPIGS International has delivered the first shipment of 30 breeding animals to Guatemala via DEPORGEN in Costa Rica, the TOPIGS representative for Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. The animals are from the breeding farms of DEPORGEN in Costa Rica. The group consists of terminal sires and parent animals of the Dalland lines.
This is the first group of animals delivered from Costa
Rica to Guatemala. More shipments of animals will follow, according to DEPORGEN
managing director, Dr. Peter Geesink.
The animals come from the breeding farms in Costa Rica and
have a high health status. The farms were populated from the SPF breeding farms
of TOPIGS in France. Geesink: “The high health status of the TOPIGS lines in
France and in Costa Rica ensures us of success in the future.”
Please contact:
Dr. Peter Geesink, DEPORGEN, Costa Rica
phone: (+).506.391.6309
fax: (+).506.382.4534
email: deporgen@sol.racsa.co.cr
Press release
no. 031e, April 3, 2000
Dutch pig breeders
discover imprinted genes:
New opportunities to improve pig breeding
Several traits in pigs are not inherited from both parents
but are exclusively determined by the genes inherited from the father or the
mother (i.e. genetic imprinting). This is the surprising finding of a
collaborative project of Dutch pig breeding companies and scientists at
Wageningen University. It has considerable commercial significance in pig
breeding and pig farming as, for example, sow lines can be developed with
fatness traits suited to reproduction without compromising the lean
characteristics of the offspring.
Hypor, Dumeco Breeding and TOPIGS - the Dutch pig breeding companies - have
filed a patent application for the use of the newly discovered pig genes. Four
of the discovered genes are subject to what is called genetic imprinting and
this unique finding is being presented by researchers of Wageningen University
at a scientific conference in the United Kingdom on 3 April. At the conference,
Dirk-Jan de Koning, whose research is being funded by the Dutch Science
Foundation (NWO) and the Dutch breeding companies, will present how DNA
information was used to locate genes and to discover the important role of
imprinting.
Genetic imprinting
The research project identified five genes that have a
significant effect on the fatness and muscularity of pigs. No fewer than four of
these five genes are subject to the phenomenon of genetic imprinting. In genetic
imprinting the breeder can predict whether it is the gene of the father or
mother that is expressed. In such a case, the performance of offspring is not
the normal blend of properties inherited from both the father and mother. Until
now this phenomenon has not been considered to be important. This research shows
that genetic imprinting is far more common than expected and therefore able to
offer significant new insights and opportunities to pig breeders. The Wageningen
scientists also urge people working in animal and human genetic research to
account for genetic imprinting in their analysis of genome mapping experiments.
Fatness and muscularity
The newly identified pig genes are associated with back fat
thickness, intramuscular fatness and the thickness of muscles. The effect of the
genes is considerable and the genes are responsible for two to ten percent of
the variation in these traits. Selected breeding for these genes may therefore
have a clearly visible impact on carcass quality of pigs and the eating quality
of the meat. The most striking feature of the new finding is that solely the
boar or the sow controls the expression of four of the five new genes. This
opens the way for many applications in specialised pig lines. For example, sow
lines could be improved for reproductive capacity by increasing their inherent
fatness, a prerequisite for adequate reproductive function. This inherent
fatness would, however, be of the genetically imprinted type and therefore would
not be expressed in the offspring from a mating with a specialised, lean boar
line. Thus allowing the progeny to inherit the lean traits of the boar
unaffected by the fatness of the sow. In general, the finding of widespread
genetic imprinting dramatically increases the potential for further genetic
improvement of traits that are apparently biologically conflicting.
For further information you can contact:
Prof. Dr. Johan A.M. van Arendonk or
Dr. Martien A.M. Groenen,
Animal Breeding and Genetics group,
Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS),
Wageningen University,
e-mail: Johan.vanArendonk@alg.vf.wau.nl,
phone +31 317 482335,
fax: +31 317 483929
or
Gert van Maanen,
Communications office,
Wageningen University,
phone +31 317 485003
Further information on the parties involved:
This research was supported financially by the Netherlands Technology Foundation (STW), and was co-ordinated by the Earth and Life Sciences Foundation (ALW). Both foundations are members of the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). For more information see http://www.nwo.nl
JANUARY 6TH 2000
DALLAND VALUE ADDED PORK SIGNED DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT FOR ONTARIO, CANADA
Canada, January 6th 2000 - Dalland Value Added Pork Inc, the TOPIGS daughter company in North American, has signed a distribution contract for Dalland breeding stock in the province of Ontario with Quality Swine Co-operative from Shedden, Ontario.
Glen Snyder, General Manager for Dalland Canada, and Alan Bloomfield, Marketing Manager for Quality Swine, are enthusiastic about the potential of the alliance. Glen states that Quality with its 30 year history of able and innovative service will provide the ideal infrastructure for the marketing and after sales service of breeding stock. “Our corporate mission is to be the number one supplier of quality swine genetics to the pork industry in North America.”
From Alan Bloomfield’s perspective the merger provides Quality Swine with the ability to bring in new genetics to improve profitability for Ontario producers and processors. The two companies have similar values and a producer-directed, grass roots background.
| It is envisaged that Quality Swine will develop the Ontario market for the Dalland product and have multiplication within Ontario in the near future. Quality Swine is currently sourcing F1 gilts and terminal boars from high health Dalland multiplication and nucleus farms in Western Canada. |  |
