Striving for more than 35 piglets per sow per year

What good genetics and highly motivated staff can lead to is shown by Tom Oestrup – at his farm on the Danish island Funen. Last year he weaned 35 piglets per sow per year – and this year the target is up again. Denmark prides herself on her pig industry and rightly so. For a nation of 5 million people the country punches well over her weight. The country’s DanAvl breeding organisation is aggressively exporting stock all over the world and their booths feature predominantly at all