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PIC, a division of Genus plc and the world’s leading swine genetics company, announces agreement with the Besun Food Group to partner in the operation of a 4,250 sow nucleus farm in China’s Shaanxi province.

There is a tendency for producers to keep these animals for excessive periods.

For optimum results, producers should organise their work so that once stimulated by the boar all the stimulated sows can be served within a 20-minute period.

Over eight-hundred high health, genetically advanced breeding pigs have successfully touched down in China this week. The animals were transported from the UK onboard a specially chartered 747 aircraft on behalf of JSR Genetics.

Pig farmers need to know whether boars have been individually tested for feed conversion and whether they have an EBV (Estimated Breeding Value) for this trait

A new AI station has been commissioned in Malta, using stock, expertise and equipment from Britain.

A team of researchers from the China Agricultural University in Beijing have won an award for their evaluation of the performance of the boar taint vaccine Improvac® (Pfizer Animal Health) under Chinese production conditions.

An armful of trophies was taken by ACMC pigs at Yorkshire’s Hull Market Christmas Show. They were awarded for the Supreme pen of pigs, Reserve pen of pigs, Best pen of cutter pigs, Best pen of bacon pigs and the Best pen of commercial pigs.

Although AI now accounts for 75-80 per cent of pig services nationally, the boar is still a very important animal on most farms and is used extensively to provide cover for sows both naturally and artificially inseminated on the farm.

EU Commission approves Pfizer Animal Health’s vaccine against boar taint

Not surprisingly, not many people even know what boar taint is. But that may be about to change. A new website which explains what causes boar taint and how it is controlled has just been launched.