IN BRIEF

30 January 1998

IN BRIEF

&#8226 DAIRY producers who buy 20t of Trident Feeds sugar beet products will receive a £100 voucher to purchase semen from Genus. Offer lasts until mid-March. Contact 01733-422220.

&#8226 RARE breed boars are available for AI use following the Rare Breed Survival Trusts decision to re-introduce its pig AI service run in conjunction with Yorks-based JSR Healthbred. On their station until May 1 is a Gloucestershire Old Spot boar, to be followed by one from the Large Black breed. Details 0800-979899.

&#8226 MIXED pairs of coloured pigs will be judged in an interbreed competition for the first time at this years Royal Show, Jul 6-9.

&#8226 BLACK-AND-WHITE breed society unification talks will be chaired by Earl Selborne, who farms in Hampshire and has been president of the RASE and RABDF, and chairman of the AFRC. He will be assisted by John Sumner, former ADAS head of dairying, who is technical secretary. The Unification Task Force will also comprise three HFS and five BHS board members.

&#8226 ANIMAL health company Hoechst Roussel Vet is offering sheep farmers the chance to win a flock health check and disease risk assessment carried out by an independent sheep consultant. &#42