Farmers Weekly Awards 2007

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Questions

Business. Please give an overview of your business plan for your pig enterprise, outlining your future aims and aspirations, together with details of how your business has developed. Where possible, please explain cost management and fixed and variable costs. Where relevant please give details of how your pig herd fits into your whole-farm system.
Technical. Please outline your breeding, rearing and finishing policies, providing evidence of health management, breeding and feeding programmes. Please detail how you maintain and improve performance standards through reference to for example technologies, innovations, staff training and best practice.
Marketing. Please explain your marketing policy, providing, where possible, information on prices achieved, carcass weights and grades, abattoir/whole chain cooperation and evidence of adding value and marketing vision.
Social responsibilities. Farming is increasingly being called to account over its role in environmental management. Please outline how your pig enterprise works within its natural environment, including evidence of protecting natural resources, aiding biodiversity, meeting legislative requirements and engaging with the local community with discussion groups, steering bodies or industry organisations. Can you and your pig enterprise deliver something for the future of the industry?

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