Save £40 million, Pig Producers Told
YORKSHIRE - Faced with higher costs due to the escalating price of feed, the British pig industry could save over £40 million per year, simply by improving feed conversion by 0.1. This represents 267,000...

Small Improvement To Feed Conversion Could Save Millions
UK - The UK pig industry could save over £40m per year by making a small improvement to feed conversion, according to Stephen Curtis, who was speaking at an ACMC Ltd conference in Yorkshire.

New team at Vantage Boar AI stud
UK - International pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd has appointed a new team to run their Vantage Boar Stud for AI at Wassand, near Hull, in Yorkshire, following the retirement of Richard and Christine W...

ACMC lands two large Russian orders
UK - British pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd has landed two huge orders for genetically improved pigs from the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.

More AC1 hybrid gilts fly east
UK - ACMC secures further order from Philippines

Feeding for performance with group sow housing
UK - New systems of group-housing sows, which have affected the ability of the pig producer to tailor feeding to individual sows and led to increased hierachical competition, has challenged conventional...

Why Dont Pig Producers Weigh Their Weaning Pigs?
UK - Why don't pig producers weigh their weaners? This is a question posed by Dr Mike Varley.

UK Pig Breeders ACMC Secure Thai Deal
UK - Against international competition, UK pig-breeding company ACMC has secured an order from a farming company in Thailand for breeding stock worth over £250,000.

Cut variability to optimise growth
UK - To optimise growth, and therefore profit, pig producers should adjust their management to reduce variability among their growers and finishers, Ed Sutcliffe, technical director of pig-breeding company...

ACMC to expand high-health pig production
UK - To meet the growing demand for high-health stock, both at home and abroad, international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd is setting up fresh production facilities.

British pig-breeding expertise at EuroTier
UK - ACMC's new German franchisees - Hans Gerd Behrens and Jens Uwe Stiefel, as well as senior management - will be on the company's stand (No C06/F, Hall 26) for the first time at EuroTier, which takes...

Plant protein quality control in pig feeds
UK - Greater reliance on the use of imported soya since the EU ban on mammalian proteins in livestock diets has resulted in an increased risk of nutritional variability in pig feeds, particularly when...

Time to bin paper-based records?
UK - Paper-based records can no longer easily provide herd managers with the up-to-date detailed analysis that is essential for today's pig producers, according to Ed Sutcliffe, technical director of Yorkshire-based...

Absence makes the heat grow stronger!
UK - A change in service house design to limit sows contact with boars immediately after weaning may help improve breeding herd productivity, new research has shown.

ACMC steps into German market
UK - Fast-expanding international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd has appointed two agents in Germany, a key European market with a national herd of 26.3 million pigs, the largest in the EU.

Watch Out For Autumn Infertility
UK - Although the nights are only just starting to draw in, pig producers should not delay in taking steps to guard against autumn infertility. This syndrome can result in a drop in conception rates of...

High culling herds do better
UK - Pig producers who keep up-to-date with replacement rates in their breeding herds achieve higher productivity than those who are less rigorous with their sow culling policies.

Breeding companies to select for welfare and environmental factors?
UK - Since animal welfare and protecting the environment are now such major concerns to the general public, some means of addressing these issues may have to be incorporated in future selection programmes...

Chinese Genes Can Boost British Pig Productivity
UK - An extra pig a litter - worth over £100 per sow annually - could be achieved by commercial pig farmers with the use of stock containing Chinese genes. This could help put British farmers back on...

Farmer partners required
UK - Due to unprecedented expansion in sales of breeding stock, Yorkshire-based international pig genetics company, ACMC, is seeking UK farmers in isolated locations to set up a new high-health-boar nucleus...

Smithfield Foods Takes Stake In ACMC
UK - Smithfield Foods Inc - the world's largest integrated pig company - has taken an undisclosed equity stake in UK-based international pig-breeding company, ACMC Ltd.

Use Your KPIs Pig Producers Advised
UK - Not making use of IT through computerised recording systems is costing pig producers thousands of pounds a year.

ACMC sets up first Scottish multiplier unit
UK - Scotland's first multiplier unit for international pig-breeding company, ACMC Ltd, is being established this month by well-known pig farmer, Paul Duxbury and family, from Rothienorman, Inverurie,...

AI - it looks the same but...
UK - Switching semen supplier could save pig producers more than £12.50 per litter - or over £14,000 per year for a 500-sow herd, according to Ed Sutcliffe, technical director of Yorkshire-based pig breeding...

ACMC Launches New Website
UK - Rapidly-growing international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd, based in the UK, has established a new website: http://www.acmc.co.uk.