Speakers at last week's British Cattle Breeders Conference, Telford, urged farmers not to rest on their laurels and to learn lessons from other sectors and from the experience available to them from around the world. Jonathan Long and Simon Wragg report. For beef producers to be successful they must look to make the level of genetic advance made by the pig sector in the past 40 years, according to John Alexander of PIC. Mr Alexander told delegates that, historically, the pig sector had been much like the beef sector, with large numbers of small herds. But due to economic pressures, the pig sector had adapted to change. "Pig producers have had to focus on consumer demands and have changed production systems and genetics to meet these objectives."
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