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 told a National Pig Association meeting...

PIC's Sales Drives Demand For Another Semen Collection Centre
UK - Since the arrival of the PIC 327 and 337 boars at PIC’s GTCs (Gene Transfer Centres) three years ago, sales increased so rapidly that we began planning a fifth GTC over 18 months ago.

New porcine AI products
UK - Innovis Ltd, which is a multi-species operation, works in close partnership with PIC in the operation of two GTCs and supplies all PIC’s AI products and semen processing services.

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.

Real Quality attracts a premium, doesn't it?
UK - Training, dedication, stockmanship, loyalty, high-health and good biosecurity seem to be the keys to success at Limestone Farming Com-pany’s 400 sow unit at Willoughton in North Lincs. Unit manager David Owers is coming up to 20 years in charge and...

Pigs love the Bishop ‘farrowing village'
UK - The heat is on in more ways than one at Bishop Burton’s new pig unit. Not only have they installed a new state of the art incinera-tor, but the first pigs born in the new system were away at 76 kilos dead before their dams farrowed the second time....

Really Motoring
UK - Vicky Morgan gained her honours degree at Harper Adams in agrifood marketing, took a year off to travel and then came home to join her parents, David and Sue Morgan, at Pockthorpe Hall, near Driffield in Yorkshire, reports Pig Worlds Sam Walton.

Over 28 Pigs Sold Per Sow Per Year
UK - By applying logic, modern technology and good stockmanship this producer is achieving results that rival the best production figures on the continent.

Pig Journal Compendium Now Available On CD
UK - The Pig Veterinary society have just announced the full archive of The Pig Journal is available to buy on CD.

Understanding and Improving Pork Quality
UK - Meat quality is currently very topical, and almost everyone I talk to has their own opinion on what we must do to improve it.

Retrovirus infection in pigs: a possible factor in poor health
UK - Researchers at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities recently reported the novel discovery of age-related titres of circulating retroviral elements in serum samples taken from commercial pigs and a preliminary association with background disease status...

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 place on 14-17th November in Hanover.

Bishop Burton Pig Unit Reopens With Emphasis On Welfare
UK - The decision to relaunch Bishop Burton College’s pig unit in East Yorkshire as a high-welfare unit has gladdened my heart, reports Sam Walton in the Pig World magazine.

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 used for younger animals.

Pig vets advised to spend more time on the farm
UK - Pig vets can expect to spend more time on-farm with producers talking through and planning improvements to herd health - the single biggest brake on performance and, therefore, profitability.

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 pig breeding company, ACMC.

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.

Untidiness Is Idleness
UK - At a recent meeting of Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers, Fred Hirst spoke about farming on the urban fringe, says Pig Worlds Sam Walton.

PIG DISEASES (Eighth edition)
UK - It is seven years, since this excellent work was updated, back in 1999.