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Breeding Simplicity

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The Breeding Simplicity illustrated by the unique “ACMC Three Breed Programme� with added heterosis, will result, at a commercial level, in greater numbers born and reared with significantly enhanced consistent carcass quality.

Vantage Boars Heavier weights • More lean • Superior grading Vantage Ultra new purebred boar is our high conformation recommended sire line boar. the Ultra is an excellent terminal sire, generating hybrid vigour. Also, the Ultra’s excellent lean tissue feed efficiency produces the ideal finished processing pig.

Vantage Extreme is our Extreme Conformation

sire line boar. Its Extreme Conformation has been developed for those producers who require well conformed muscling. In addition this terminal sire line has very little backfat, enabling it to meet tighter grading and lean meat specifications.

Dam Line Boars The Meidam is the world’s newest purebred GGP dam line breed and is exclusive to ACMC. The Meidam is the world’s newest and most advanced prolific registered purebred. It is ideally suited for producing parent breeding stock for the commercial herd and is a global leader in combining productivity with efficiency of growth. and carcase quality.

• Higher numbers born and reared • Better milk yield • Excellent docility • Greater longevity Ideally suited to mating to the ACMC Volante Large White female.

The Volante is the world’s most advanced purebred Large White GGP Dam Line breed and is exclusive to ACMC.

Vantage Tradition purebred boar is our

classic and highly recommended Large White sire line boar. Tradition, because of its unrivalled reputation for producing consistent high-class carcasses which are ideally suited for the most stringent grading classifications.

Vantage Reprise is our Meat Quality sire line

boar derived from the Duroc. The Meat Quality is exhibited through his progeny which display darker coloured meat with slightly higher intra-muscular fat. The MQ is ideally suited for specialist processing pig requirements.

The Volante Dam Line is a well established traditional Large White and is the result of decades of development. A lean pig offering excellent dam line traits, this great grandparent dam line boar will introduce hybrid vigour and an optimum carcass into your own breeding programme. It is ideally suited to mating to the ACMC Meidam or Landrace female.

standards of excellence and independently audited.

Advanced genetics in boar semen from ACMC’s Independently Audited Genebank using bespoke ACMC Vantage Boars ACMC “Vantage Sire and Dam Line Boars” - for perfect breeding.

stud is independently audited for sound protocols to ensure product control and quality. These regular health protocols are in place to protect the end-user.

The ACMC Genebank has been developed in order to ensure the highest semen quality, biosecurity and customer service that would only be expected by the discerning pig producer.

Our stud operators have amassed many years of experience in stud control and day-to-day management. Boar semen from the Genebank is used on our own ACMC commercial demonstration farm.

Worldwide AI - Semen is packaged and dispatched to many different countries worldwide as fresh semen. Using special thermo packaging and extender diluents ACMC boar semen will both travel safely and live for several days after arrival for farm use. So whether you are a customer within the UK or in another country ACMC product quality will ensure good results.

All the boars chosen to stand at the ACMC Genebank have been individually selected. Producing optimum progeny performance, whether they are the finished end product from a choice of terminal sires, or future breeding females from dam line sires.

Biosecurity - Prior to new boars entering the stud’s isolation premises they have been produced and selected only from ACMC Genetic Nucleus farms. Whilst in isolation they under go the most rigorous health checks laid down

by ACMC and EU boar AI stud protocols, making the Genebank “A world leader in applied pig EU Approved. Our stud, and genetic development providing the the boars within, are inspected ultimate in product value.” by independent veterinary Technology that puts youweekly in control ACMC Genebank raising surgeons. Added to this, our boar

Semen quality - Good stockmanship and handling encourages the boars to produce viable and healthy semen, which is essential to obtain optimum conception and litter size.

Our laboratory has its own fully controlled environment focusing on hygiene, temperature control and working efficiency. All this means that this ACMC product arrives at our customers’ farms in the best condition possible.

PIGCOM Technology that puts you in control A new Windows based pig management software package from ACMC. In use around the world keeping track of stock from birth to marketplace.

Designed by pig producers for pig producers, PigCom is an easy–touse, computer-based programme recording for both the breeding and feeding herds. It tracks valuable performance parameters of the separate stages of the breeding cycle for sows and growth within the feeding herd.

PigCom can handle information from multiple farms and provide consolidated summaries for weekly

and monthly data, improving management information for better analysis of key business performance indicators.

The software can be set up with specific farm targets and key performance figures, tailoring reports to individual farm requirements.

The “intelligent” system produces a full range of management reports while offering an intuitive menu to make for easy navigation through the programme and a high degree of data integrity. It is simple to use with no requirement for previous software knowledge.

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The end product

More pigs producing succulent quality pork ACMC’s meticulous on-farm testing and meat quality work, gathering information for individual carcass traits for both our sire and dam lines, reaps the benefits with the slaughter processor. Lean tissue food conversion, lean tissue growth rates, leanness and meat quality are all areas that ACMC focuses on in the testing regime.

Whatever the finished pig contract is, ACMC genetics will ensure optimum performance on any carcass specification.

Graphed actual data from commercial farms showing distribution of carcass weights with the average P2 of the pigs in that weight category. This demonstrates good carcass quality even with heavy carcass weights, the slaughter generation carcasses still have low average P2 measurements.

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