Topigs Canada Inc. has bought the hog genetics business operations and assets of Maple Leaf Agri-Farms.
The deal includes the assets of Lean Team International, a marketing arm of the genetics business, along with a nucleus farm in Manitoba.
The two companies have also formalized an agreement in which Topigs Canada supplies genetics to Maple Leaf Agri-Farms’ hog production operations.
“Topigs has a strong reputation as a world leader in swine genetics and we are pleased that the company recognized the value in our genetics business and our people,” Maple Leaf Agri-Farms Genetics vice-president Glen Gratton said in a news release.
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“Maple Leaf Agri-Farms is looking forward to drawing on Topigs’ global expertise and to building a strong working relationship as our genetics supplier for our hog production operations in Manitoba.”
Topigs has subsidiaries, agents and distributors in more than 30 countries.
It is part of the Pigture Group based in Vught, Netherlands, and produces more than a million gilts per year and more than six million doses of semen.
Topigs exports worldwide from its specific pathogen-free nucleus farms in Saskatchewan.
