ACMC to supply breeding stock to Spanish integrator

ACMC Ltd., a British-based pig genetics company, has acquired an order to supply one of Spain's largest integrators with breeding stock.

A new project will involve the setting up of a 500 -sow high-health nucleus and nucleus multiplier herd in a deal worth GBP2.25 million.

The unit is being stocked by Genetica Meidam, ACMC's Spanish arm based at Roitegui in the Basque region of northern Spain.

When it comes on-stream it will be responsible for improved genetics in 200,000 slaughter pigs through the integration scheme.

The agreement follows a year of discussions and investigation by the integrator, including visits by senior vets to ACMC's headquarters at Beeford in Yorkshire, and commercial units already using ACMC's stock on the Iberian Peninsular.

Genetica Meidam managing director Eric Hindson said the buyers were particularly impressed by the company's scientific programme, involving the individual testing of both male and female, as well as the prolificacy of the Meidam stock on commercial units.

ACMC will be controlling the mating and testing programmes and providing PigCom as well as supplying genetically up-to-date semen and boars, which will be changed every 12 months.