Breeding

18 December 2024

Enables farmers to find bulls that breed healthier cows that can stay in the herd for longer

17 July 2024

Gestation Length Index provides a prediction of gestation length for a bull’s calves.

29 March 2021

Three changes introduced to genetic evaluations from April - HealthyCow, Gestation Length and a rolling base

24 March 2021

Learn more about new dairy breeding indexes being released this year to help improve cow health and your breeding programme.

22 March 2021

After the initial five years of research, funding has now been confirmed for RamCompare t continue into the third phase

17 March 2021

Performance records provide ram breeders and commercial ram buyers with the best way to assess the genetic potential of breeding rams.

15 March 2021

How Wallace and James Hendrie are improving fertility in their spring block calving herd by reviewing the previous calving season and fertility figures.

1 March 2022

If you’re new to pig keeping, or are a small-scale producer, our Principles of pig production webinars are perfect for you. Discover our FAQ's, equipping you with information on breeding, weaning, finishing and growing.

24 February 2021

A focus on breeding at Bridge Farm helped them move into the top 5% of autumn block herds ranked by genetic merit.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® demonstrated there are many solutions to improving overall gilt and sow retention but only when embedded across processes to produce marginal gains. What is needed is a how-to guide for getting from variation to standardisation.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® mentors have shown that controlling some of the processes around gilt selection, farrowing groups and nutrition by parity, substantial reductions in variation and performance can be achieved.

26 January 2021