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Date: 20/05/2013
Hermitage Seaborough Ltd. have been awarded the ‘Pre Farmgate Innovation Winner’s Award’ for their ‘Closed Herd BLUP Breeding Programmes’, at the 2013 Pig & Poultry Marketing Awards. The ceremony took place at the Lo...
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Date: 01/03/2013
Following an inspection visit from an official delegation from AQSIQ (The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) of the People’s Republic of China last year, Hermitage Genetics Callan AI station has been offic...
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Date: 14/02/2013
On the 6th and 7th February, Hermitage Seaborough held two very successful open days at the new AI station located at Willingham in Cambridgeshire. Key producers and representatives from the British pig industry were invited for a presentation and to...
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Date: 13/02/2013
LLC “RPE “Globinsky Svinokomplex” established a 1230 sow GGP/GP Hermitage Genetics nucleus in the Ukraine in February of last year. The breeding programme is linked directly to the Hermitage PigBLUP Exchange in Ireland and managed b...
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Date: 12/02/2013
This year will see the second phase of supply for the new Altaymyasoprom swine complex development in the Altai region of Western Siberia. The current contract is for the complete stocking of a brand new 5,400 sow farm currently in the final stages o...
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Date: 05/11/2012
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This 160 High Health unit is located in the foothills of the Apennines mountain range, half way between Reggio Emilia and Parma, home of excellence for the production of the world famous naturally dried hams “Parma Ham”. The location of t...
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Date: 01/11/2012
Hermitage Genetics EU licensed boar stud at Callan, Co; Kilkenny has been expanded to accommodate 515 AI boars. The development was completed in the Summer this year. In addition to supplying semen to the Irish and Northern Irish market, semen ...
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Date: 12/10/2012
Hermitage Genetics exhibited at the leading annual Russian agricultural show – “Golden Autumn” earlier this month. The show was very well attended by existing Russian customers and potential new clients, some from as far away as Yak...
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Date: 19/09/2012
Robert Lutz and Wolfgang Pfeiffer, have combined forces and established a new 650 place sow unit on a green field site in Baden- Wurttemberg, Southern Germany. The new unit has been built with the most modern technologies and in accordance with all n...
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Date: 18/09/2012
Hermitage Genetics has just successfully delivered another shipment of high health gilts and boars from Ireland to Novgorod Bacon (North East of Moscow, close to St. Petersburg) in the Russian Federation on 12th September 2012. Novgorod Bacon Ltd. (a...
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Date: 17/09/2012
Hermitage NGT is delighted to introduce the Keller family: Matt, Sarah and son James. Matt is a native of the Kenyon, Minnesota area has been involved in the swine business his whole life. He grew up on a family farm with pork production ...
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Date: 12/07/2012
Hermitage Genetics have been granted a European Patent for their research technology project “Sequencing the mitochondrial DNA with reference to fertility as a means of optimisation of sow breeding lines”. The patent was granted in June 2...
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Date: 18/06/2012
Hermitage Genetics are establishing a new SPF ‘Super Nucleus’ at Freneystown, Co; Kilkenny, Ireland. The new herd will consist of 1,100 GGP females (Landrace, Large White, MaxgroTM, Hygro PietrainTM and Duroc). The Super Nucleus has been ...
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Date: 29/05/2012
Russian herds using the Hermitage closed herd BLUP breeding programme are continuing to achieve excellent results. The Hermitage technical support team has just arrived back from LLC AltayMyasoProm which is set to become one of the biggest meat...
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Date: 19/05/2012
During May Hermitage Genetics successfully completed their first export of breeding stock from Ireland to Nigeria for the Benue State Pig Project. The specialist consignment of 80 head of maternal line Large White and Landrace, along with terminal li...
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Date: 26/04/2012
On 26th April 2012, The Russian Union of Pork Producers “Rossvinoprom” held a conference celebrating its 40th anniversary. Speakers included the former Minister of Agriculture of the USSR Mr. Mesyats, General Director of Rossvinprom Union...
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Date: 24/02/2012
Hermitage Genetics consolidated its position as a leading supplier of high health pig breeding stock to Russia at the recent AgroFARM exhibition held in Moscow on 7 – 9th February. The exhibition, which is supported by the Ministry of Agricultu...
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Date: 23/02/2012
Results from the Freneystown performance testing station in Ireland confirm that the Hermitage Maxgro Terminal boars are some of the fastest growing genetics in the World.
Recent results set new records for growth rate and feed conversion efficiency...
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Date: 21/02/2012
Hermitage NGT has recently appointed D. Richard Olsen as Director of Sales and Marketing in the United States. Richard has vast experience of the US swine industry especially in the fields of genetics, reproduction, selection and nutrition. Richard g...
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Date: 18/01/2012
The issue of piglet castration has become a major animal welfare concern in many European Countries. Some supermarket chains have decided to only sell products from pigs that have not been physically castrated from 1 January 2011 onwards. As a result...
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