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.

Gilt Sales Soar As Breeding Company Records Rapid Growth
UK - Against a contracting national herd in the UK, pig-breeding company ACMC has reported a sharp increase in sales of breeding gilts, between January 2005 and January 2006.

Reg Joseph Appointed Consultant by Yorkshire Pig Breeding Company
UK - Well-known industry figure, Reg Joseph, has been appointed consultant to East Yorkshire-based international pig breeding company, ACMC Ltd.

Prize-Winning Pork Pies Fly Off The Shelves
UK - Sales of home-made pork pies have soared by over 50 per cent since a Yorkshire butcher scooped a major award.

ACMC Appoints New Management Team in Thailand
UK - Following rapid growth of its business in Thailand, UK-based international pig-breeding company ACMC has appointed a new team to manage its Asian subsidiary, ACMC (Asia) Co, based at Ampur Muang,...

ACMC Secure Italian Contract
UK - East Yorkshire pig breeding company ACMC has secured an order worth over £126,000 for 800 replacement gilts and boars for a 1,000 sow commercial herd in Italy.

Triple win for ACMC at Hull Market Christmas Show
UK - Beeford-based international pig breeding company ACMC Ltd have not lost their local touch.

Eats meats west - Japanese visit Yorkshire pig-breeding company
UK - With a distinct lack of sushi bars in the East Yorkshire village of Beeford, international pig-breeding company ACMC treated a delegation of Japanese visitors to a buffet luncheon, which included...

AI stud receives first independent audit in UK
UK - To reassure customers that the high quality of semen from their AI stud is being maintained, East Yorkshire pig-breeding company, ACMC, has introduced an independent audit of its whole AI operati...

Multipliers wanted
UK - ACMC, Britain's fastest-growing pig breeding company, is looking for farmers with pig-keeping experience to set up multiplying herds to produce high-health AC1 parent gilts and Meidam grandparent...

BACMC sign Lithuanian agreement
UK - An important agreement for the exclusive supply of genetically-advanced breeding stock has been signed by Yorkshire-based pig-breeding company, ACMC and UAB Kemp ir Partnerai, an influential marketing...

Thai pork takeaway!
UK - Following a visit by five Thai farmers to its headquarters at Beeford, East Yorkshire, international pig-breeding company ACMC Ltd has scooped an order worth £45,000, for 68 boars and gilts including...

ACMC to sponsor YFC pig judging at the Great Yorkshire Show
UK - Yorkshire-based international pig-breeding company ACMC is to sponsor the Yorkshire and East Riding Federations of Young Farmers' Clubs' pig stock-judging competition again at the Great Yorkshire...

ACMC opens up new Asian market
UK - A new market is being opened up in the Philippines with the shipment of £80,000 worth of genetically-advanced breeding stock from Yorkshire-based pig breeding company, ACMC.

ACMC Pigs-Tested, approved and recognised
UK - In the 36 months since the launch of its seven new breeds of production pig, Yorkshire, UK, based ACMC has seen demand soar for its genetics, technical support and profitable pigs. Available as live...

1,100 breeding pigs sent to Eastern Europe
UK - Yorkshire pig breeding company ACMC has just sent 1,100 pigs to Eastern Europe in a new export deal that is expected to total 6,000 head of animals.

ACMC Strengthens Technical Team
UK - Major UK pig-breeding company, ACMC, is strengthening its innovative technical department with the appointment of two new animal scientists with additional meat quality expertise.

UK Breeding Company announces Asian acquisition
UK - Yorkshire based leading pig breeding and genetics company ACMC has announced the acquisition of Thia company EBC Pharma Vet. The deal will see EBC, under managing director Dr Suchat Prommano, become...