Yorkshire Producers 'Up for Something Big'
UK - Funding is now in place to build a healthier, more efficient and more internationally competitive Yorkshire and Humberside pig herd, writes Digby Scott.
20 April 2009
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The target is to give producers the tools to reduce production costs by up to 38 a pig.
There are two reasons why the English pig industry’s pig health improvement scheme is being rolled out in Yorkshire ahead of other regions.
- Crucially, Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, shares producers’ vision of what can be achieved to improve pig health and welfare.
- And equally important, Yorkshire pig-keepers have, in the words of one producer, demonstrated they are “up for tackling something really big“ to improve health status.
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