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Fourth generation farmer Gregor Bruce has embarked on a global journey over the last year to investigate the implications of increased productivity in pig farming. Farming…
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Scottish pig farmer and Nuffield scholar applies global insight to big pig question
0Fourth generation farmer Gregor Bruce has embarked on a global journey over the last year to investigate the implications of increased productivity in pig farming. Farming in north-east Scotland with his parents, Gregor runs an integrated arable and pig business across 800 acres, producing cereals to feed their 320 sows. One of this year’s presenting Nuffield Scholars, he has travelled the world in pursuit of his research topic titled: ‘The previous generation of pig farmers increased productivity 50%. Can we do the same?’ And should we?’ Describing the UK pig industry as ‘innovative and collaborative but suffering’, he said his…