Piglet rearing house with a wooden look
In Gerd Behnen’s old machine shop in Gehlenberg (district of Cloppenburg, North-Western Germany), you will hear squeaks and grunts nowadays: the farmer has converted the building into a house for…
Hungarian company invests heavily in sow management and piglet rearing
The Danish agricultural company FirstFarms Hungary Kft. has invested more than eight billion forints (approx. EUR 21.7 million) in the construction of two pig farms in South Hungary. The locations in…
BRÖRING and Big Dutchman start “havito: the welfare barn with solid flooring”
“We have broken ground,” exclaims Frank Bergmann, project manager for Bröring Pig Partner. As planned, the BRÖRING and Big Dutchman project of constructing a joint “havito” research barn outside of…
Sow management: Ondo State governor inaugurates farm
The village of Ilutoro has a new and ultra-modern piggery. Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo State in Nigeria, wants to create new jobs and training opportunities as well as alleviate protein…
Pig finishing: Danish farmer hosts Open Day with social distancing
Bidding farewell to sow management, Lars Jensen from Aars in Northern Denmark has started finishing pigs on his farmstead “Kællingtandgaard” (“Lotus farm”). For this operational restructuring, the…
Well-proven feed pan “Male Pan” wears down the beak naturally
The Verwaest-Mer family from Oud-Turnhout in the Belgian province of Antwerp recently completed two modern houses for broiler breeder management. The barns, each measuring 28 x 100 meters and designed…
Sow management: Bongdong trumpets stellar production
The past decade has seen changes in the South Korean pig industry landscape. From more than 12,000 pig farms in 2005, the number declined to 6,000 in 2012. Despite this, total pig inventory in the…
Latest pig equipment installed at breeding enterprise
In the Bolshesoldatsky district, Kursk Oblast, Russia, a modern pig breeding farm has recently been launched, according to the renowned Pig Progress magazine. The modern operation has a production…
Brand new: Efficiently filtering PRRS viruses – already out of the incoming air
The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) confronts pig producers throughout the world with big problems: The pandemic disease severely affects the health of their animals. To avoid…
Hung Farm inaugurates impressive broiler facility
Hung Farm, a partner of CP Vietnam, recently celebrated the opening of its latest broiler production facility. CP Vietnam is a subsidiary of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP group), Thailand’s biggest…