By crossing Poll Dorset with Finnish Landrace after advice from Dr John Robinson at the University of Aberdeen in 1974, Mr Good developed the ‘Warborough’ breed (see box).

The data consisted of purebred Finnish Yorkshire and Finnish Landrace pigs and their F1-crosses. Pigs were raised in a controlled test station environment located in Längelmäki, Finland (Figen Oy).

Warborough breed. A criss-cross breeding strategy started in the 1970s combining the conformation and early lambing of Poll Dorsets rams with the prolificacy of Finnish Landrace ewes.