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New Chief Steward for the Great Yorkshire Pig Section
One of the most important sections at the Great Yorkshire Show has a new leader. Peter Brier, who has been involved in helping to run the pig classes…
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Knowledge transfer gets a boost
Better herd health and better performance in breeding, growing and finishing are the top priorities for new staff taken on by the British Pig…
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Encouraging view of pig industry
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts - that expression could be used to describe the latest improvements seen in the British pig industry…
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Growing and finishing pigs set to benefit as new generation antibiotic gains enteric licence
UK Pig producers with enteric conditions such as ileitis and swine dysentery have a powerful new in-feed option from Schering-Plough Animal Health…
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Irish pig producers to benefit from new recording agreement
Pig producers throughout Ireland look set to benefit from improved recording technology thanks to a new agreement between Agridata and pig data…
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AI - BPEX helps to get it right
THE British Pig Executive (BPEX) has taken another major step forward to improving the productivity of the British pig herd with the launch of an…
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Farmer partners required
Due to unprecedented expansion in sales of breeding stock, Yorkshire-based international pig genetics company, ACMC, is seeking UK farmers in…
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Smithfield Foods takes stake in ACMC
Smithfield Foods Inc — the world's largest integrated pig company — has taken an undisclosed equity stake in UK-based international pig-breeding…
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New ventilation package offers control and monitoring
Farmex, the Reading-based environmental control and monitoring specialist, is introducing a brand new complete ventilation systems package for pig…
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Use your KPIs pig producers advised
Not making use of IT through computerised recording systems is costing pig producers thousands of pounds a year. Such systems highlight Key…
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