Breeding

2 August 2021

Genomic testing has helped lift the herd’s genetic merit into the top 15% across the UK.

26 June 2025

Build positive attributes such as milk production or health and management traits into your herd.

30 June 2025

Find out what the AI Standard for pigs is and what it means for producers in the UK.

28 September 2021

Find out about the benefits of the bungee serving technique for pigs and how it can increase efficiency in your unit.

5 July 2021

Our feeding for efficiency webinar is ideal for anyone looking to improve their technical knowledge on feeding traditional small-scale pig breeds.

30 June 2021

Sales of sexed dairy semen have doubled over the last two years according to our recent survey.

22 June 2021

Ram breeding provides the genetics to increase the productivity of your customer’s flock. Performance recording means you can select and market the sheep with the most profitable genetics. Recording crossbred rams uses the same process as a pedigree flock, but you should consider hybrid vigour, ram and progeny uniformity and comparison of sheep.

17 February 2025

Learn about some of the best suppliers of pig herd management software and understand how you can benefit from managing your pig herd more efficiently and effectively.

6 February 2023

How Jim Kirk has lifted pregnancy rate across his year round calving herd from 20% to an impressive 25%.

25 May 2021

As the second phase of RamCompare comes to a close, we reflect on the culmination of data collection and research over the past five years to identify what we can learn from the results.

20 May 2021

The fifth-year results from the RamCompare project reveal how rams with key breeding traits can drive productivity and optimise flock profitability.

11 May 2021

How strategic dairy farmer David Cotton achieves an impressive herd replacement rate of 19%

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