Production Systems
At ACMC we believe our professional approach to pig farming makes us leaders in our field.
We know that a healthy pig is a productive pig, so we use pioneering processes in our farming techniques to maintain the highest standards of health and welfare.
Our internal controls are robust, enabling us to achieve the successful balance between low costs and maximum efficiency that results in a high quality, value product
Our production philosophy is based on high efficiency and high quality. We have made a substantial investment in the appliance of science, time and know-how to develop our own distinctive nucleus lines based on the most advanced genetics in the world.
Our in-house breeding operation supplies all our farms with the industry's best genes, produced through company controlled scientific and testing programmes.
We use AI, maintain a gene data bank and comply with rigorous health management regimes to produce hardy lines. These are now achieving a level of production only seen at the highest commercial level. (See our Customer Testimonial Section.
The ACMC fully-integrated, multi-suckling,
three
site production system with its controlled source of genetics, feed, housing, management and health, produces high-performance pigs suitable for all environments.
The ACMC slaughter generation is a bespoke pig giving maximum economic margin as well as meeting the most stringent standards of yield and quality of lean tissue. Ideally suited for slaughter processors requiring a product which can be tailored for individual or niche markets.
The ACMC
hybrid pig, the AC1, is the perfect parent female, ideally suited to all types of management systems, intensive or extensive. It is used on our own breeding farms, rearing large numbers of pigs per year to the highest industry standards.
TRANSPORTATION
As part of our bio-security regime, all transportation of our animals remains under our control. All transport within the
Staff accompanying each load are more than drivers, they are experienced, trained stock handlers fully conversant with our requirements.
For the export of live animals we use approved specialist contractors to handle the stock through to the end user
