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Harvey and Claire Keys run 300 sows on their farm on a birth to bacon basis…

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Although Harvey and his siblings are the sixth generation to live and work on the family farm, it was Harvey who established the pig enterprise, diversifying into this area to allow the farm to remain...

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Actisaf boosts piglet performance

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jason McGrath runs Ashleigh Farms based in County Waterford with his father, Jim and brother, James. The family business, which started out with just two sows in the late 1960s, now has a head count...

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Actisaf and Safmannan combination help reduce scour

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Buying in young calves to rear on multi-suckled cows can be fraught with difficulty. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text] For a start, you don’t know the health status of the calf you are buying, whether it had...

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