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Garth Vet Client Collects Armful of Trophies at Fatstock Show

Yorkshire pig farmer Ian Broumpton gained an armful of trophies at this year's Hull Market Christmas Fatstock Show.

He gained first prize for best pen of pigs in the cutter class, with five pigs of 85kg liveweight, and first prize for the best pen of bacon pigs with five pigs weighing an average of 103kg.

The cutters went on to take the supreme championship for the best pen of pigs in the show while the baconers were reserve champions.

Ian Broumpton runs a 210-sow commercial breeding and finishing herd at Stanstead Grange, Brandesburton, where he rears an average 28.5 pigs per sow a year from ACMC stock. He bred the winners from Vantage Extreme boars put to AC1 sows. 

Ian also scooped the supreme championship at last year's Christmas show with a pen of baconers. "It's a bit of fun for a commercial farmer to compete in a livestock show and I had a lot of favourable comments about the pigs from the people there," he said.

 

 
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It's a bit of fun for a commercial farmer to compete in a livestock show and I had a lot of favourable comments about the pigs from the people there