TOPIGS International announces it has completed a US Distributor agreement with The Zierke Company, Morris, MN (US).  Through this agreement, Zierke will initiate multiplication and distribution of the TOPIGS 20 sow and other TOPIGS products in the United States. In this agreement TOPIGS also purchased the genetic rights to the Zierke purebred Duroc line.

“The swine genetics of TOPIGS combined with the existing activities of Zierke Company in Minnesota and the Midwest form an excellent foundation for future development of our business in the United States,” says Peter van Kemenade, Regional Director for TOPIGS International. “With this agreement we expand our ability to bring advanced TOPIGS genetics and technology to the US pork producers and we acquire market knowledge that will facilitate our future growth.”

Under this agreement, Zierke Company, a regional swine genetics company serving pork producers in the Upper Midwest, will use TOPIGS Nucleus breeding stock and technology within its multiplication system for gilt production for clients.  The TOPIGS InGene Program will also be used to assist existing Zierke customers with closed herd genetic programs.

Bruce Zierke, owner of Zierke Company commented, “TOPIGS is a very strong genetic company and we feel this is an excellent opportunity to advance our company and our clients’ performance with the world class genetics and organization of TOPIGS.”

The agreement compliments an earlier agreement with Ai Partners, also in Morris, MN to establish a high-health, PRRS-free boar stud that will house over 100 TOPIGS terminal and maternal boars.  The boar stud will now also house TOPIGS Duroc boars, in addition to Tempo, Talent and Top Pi terminal sires.

TOPIGS is a multinational company headquartered in Vught, The Netherlands. TOPIGS is a global player in pig genetics and, with its subsidiaries, agents and distributors, is active in more than 30 countries. Each year TOPIGS supplies more than one million gilts and over six million doses of boar semen worldwide and exports animals from its high-health SPF nucleus farms to clients across the globe.

For more information, please contact:

Bruce Zierke
1-320-760-3504
bzierke@zierkecompany.com