Revamp and reinvestment pays dividends for family business
YORKSHIRE - Keeping the farrowing house full is the main objective for Chris King, Manager of R Wilson & Son's 460-sow breeding and finishing unit at Darrington. The unit has been revamped, restocked and rejuvenated and is now primed for the future.

Book Review: Veterinary Medicine - A textbook of the diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and goats
(10th Edition) Editors: Radostits, O.M., Gay, C.C., Hinchcliff, K.W. and Constable, P.D.

Pfizer Trainee-of-Year launched for pig and poultry sectors
UK - Two new training awards together worth almost £5000 are being introduced this year by Pfizer Animal Health for the pig and poultry industries.

Tip for needle hygiene
YORKSHIRE - Needle hygiene is very important in preventing abscesses at the site of injections.

JSR Titan pigs star in Greek Odyssey
UK - Pigs from Britain's leading pig breeding company, JSR Genetics, are proving to be big business in Greece, where the Yorkshire company's franchise business, F-One Hellas, is set to expand across the country.

JSR Recruit Makes Meat-Eating Quality The Top Priority
SOUTHBURN - Caroline Mitchell, recently graduated from Nottingham University has joined JSR as a Meat Specialist at their Southburn headquarters. In an exciting new role Caroline will be dedicated to working with Producers and Processors to enhance the...

Yearbook valuable data for all things pig
BPEX's Pig Yearbook 2007 is hot of the press and it's a good reading. The authoritative source of industry data and statistics comprises a vast amount of detailed information which producers and industry stakeholders will find valuable.

PIES For All
UK - Environment equals more red tape may be a common perception, but if pig industry learns to work with legisators and regulators this may not be the case, says BPEX.

Dieter Lutticken Award Winner
UK - The annual Dieter Lütticken Award, has been granted to Dr Mark Stevens from the Institute of Animal Health, United Kingdom for his commitment to advancing the 3R concept – reducing, refining or replacing the use of animals in research.

Environment Strategy Needs Your Views, Now
UK - The partners developing the Pig Industry Environment Strategy (PIES) are seeking the views and opinions of all stakeholders of British pig industry on the Draft Strategy Document.

Wondrous World of the Web
UK - The British Pig Exectuve (BPEX) says the internet has proved a huge hit . It’s averaged more than 20,000 visitors to its website every month during the past financial year.

Pig processer agrees key contract for breeding stock
UK - Yorkshire-based genetics company, ACMC Ltd, has won a major contract to supply breeding stock to Bowes of Norfolk Ltd, one of the UK’s largest farming and pig-processing enterprises.

Charities to gain from London Marathon Runners
UK - Next Sunday's London Marathon will see Nigel Muirhead, 5M Publishing, and Matthew Curtis, ACMC, running in support of UK charities. Any donations great or small will be greatly welcomed!

JSR Develops Meat Quality Partnerships
UK - A major British pig breeding company, JSR, is playing a leading role in the development of meat Quality Partnerships to help processors and retailers capitalise on consumers' requirement for better eating quality pork.

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 tonnes of feed at an average price of £150 per...

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 Wilson.

JSR strengthens worldwide presence
UK - JSR continues its growth through investment in people with the arrival of Dr Carlos Peralta based in Mexico.

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.

Advanced genetics open new markets for JSR
UK - The advanced breeding technology of JSR Genetics is opening up lucrative new markets in Cyprus, where producers have been impressed by the British breeder's work on improving carcase yields.