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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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Date: 13/01/2012
In 2005, Hermitage Italia srl launched their high health boar stud ‘Centro Verri Italia’ which services the genetic requirements of the dynamic Italian pig industry. Due to the success of this stud, a decision was taken last year to build...
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Date: 12/01/2012
During the months of October and November 2011, Hermitage Genetics supplied approximately 3,000 high health breeding pigs to Titan-Agro Ltd. in Omsk, Western Siberia, Russia. High performance gilts and boars were transported from Ireland to Omsk by r...
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Date: 11/01/2012
Having been without pigs for the previous five years, Stephen Tuer from Northallerton, restocked his unit with 400 high health Classic 1 gilts from Hermitage Seaborough in the second half of last year.
All gilts were served with Hermitage Seaboro...
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Date: 09/10/2011
Hermitage continued to strengthen their position in the Ukraine market with successful participation at the recent Animal Farming Exhibition held in Kiev from 4-6 October. Discussions were held with both new and existing customers interested in the p...
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Date: 04/07/2011
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The Iden Test Centre is owned and managed by the German Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This authority is responsible for the independent evaluation and certification of pig performance tests for breeding organ...
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Date: 30/06/2011
The first Maxgro boars were delivered to Hermitage customers in Thailand in March 2010. These boars were used to inseminate Hermitage F1 females on Pornpraset Farm (5,000 sow farm), located in Burirum province, 300 kms North of Bangkok. The objective...
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Date: 28/04/2011
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Since entering the Russian market in 2006, Hermitage Genetics has become one of the largest international suppliers of high health pig breeding stock to key customers in Russia. Hermitage breeding stock have already been delivered direct from Ireland...
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Date: 27/04/2011
On Friday 15th of April on the stand of Hermitage Italia srl at the International Pig Fair at Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy , Mr. Attilio Gorza sole proprietor of the Italian pig genetic company “GOLAND” and Mr. Kirk Douglas, ...
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Date: 05/04/2011
EXCELLENT DAILY GAINS (480 - 500G / DAY) FROM WEANING UNTIL 25KGS.
Franz Kratzer started his Bavarian pig production in the early 90's with a small herd of breeding sows and specialized piglet rearing with 3,000 fattening places. Initially, he also ...
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Date: 09/03/2011
Marco Lunati, owner of Az Ag. Guido is a 550 sow weaner producer, and has been using Hermitage classic hybrid gilts since 2005, purchasing his replacement females directly from Hermitage nucleus units in Ireland. For the last year he is averaging ove...
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Date: 10/01/2011
Hermitage Genetics are set to become the market leaders in the Ukraine, despite only entering the market in late 2009. Successful deliveries of high health breeding stock have been made from Hermitage multiplication units in Ireland and Germany direc...
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Date: 10/03/2010
IRELAND - According to Dr John Mabry, director of Iowa Pork Industry Centre and a professor at Iowa State University, who oversees the Hermitage genetics programme, the new Hermitage AI centre at Callan in Ireland, which cost over £2 million, i...
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Date: 11/02/2010
IRELAND - Pig breeding and genetics company Hermitage reports that genetic progress is outstanding. For the dams of the Large White boars standing at stud, the average number of pigs born alive per litter has increased from 13.7 in 2001 to 16.05 in 2...
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Date: 09/02/2010
IRELAND - Kilkenny-based pig breeding company, Hermitage, last week officially opened its new state-of-the-art pig AI stud at Callan in the county of Kilkenny, bringing the company into the Top 10 global pig genetics companies.
Irish Agricultural ...
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Date: 13/01/2010
GERMANY - Hermitage Deutschland GmbH has appointed Dr Walter Vaitiekunas as its new General Manager, effective 1 January 2010.
After finishing his agricultural apprenticeship, Dr Vaitiekunas studied animal life science at the Agricultural faculty ...
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Date: 16/11/2009
UKRAINE - Hermitage has appointed Gennadiy Chernetskyy as sales manager for the Ukrainian market.
Mr Chernetskyy has excellent experience of Ukrainian pig production systems, having managed both pig farms and technical sales in the Ukrainian mark...
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