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Swine Nutrition Training Course Helps Eastern European Customers Improve Their Feeding Programs

The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) took a group of fourteen young commercial nutritionists from Poland and Romania representing local feed compounders to Madrid, Spain in October 2014 where they attended a series of in-class training sessions at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM), run by three European experts on swine nutrition, feed science and feeding-related health problems. USSEC recruited the participants and helped coordinate this training course. The nutritionists toured Spanish swine breeding and production facilities, including a swine research farm, a leading international consulting firm specializing in swine nutrition and management, and a soybean and local legumes processing plant, as well as a leading regional cooperative which manufactures various swine feed products and supplies them to numerous independent farms in several Spanish provinces. This weeklong professional experience offered to this team of USSEC’s European customers was highly evaluated by the participants.