British

German

Dutch

Advantage

Meat Yield

78.3

77.5

76.6

1.2

Eye-muscle

57.9

55.7

53.4

3.3

% Lean

58.9

57.9

56.3

1.8

Belly assessment

5.7

5.4

4.6

0.7

Surplus over feed ($)

114.8

111.8

106.6

5.6

Overall assessment *

1.85

2.18

2.5

0.49

International endorsement of British pigs has come from published Warentest results

The Warentest is recognised as the world’s leading comparative test of breeding companies.The latest test assessed the performance of progeny from Britain, Germany and the Netherlands

*Breeding + Growth + Slaughter + Customer satisfaction (Lower=Batter)

The financial benefit in terms of cost saving and increased lean was plus $4.57 and plus $12.28 per pig over the German and Dutch genotypes respectively.