The puzzle of pig production – a Danish perspective

In Denmark, the population is approximately 5.7 million people and 1 million sows – producing 29 million pigs of which 90-95 % is being exported as live pigs or pork meat. The housing of pigs influence not only their productivity, behaviour, health and welfare but also the surrounding environment, work conditions, management etc. For the pig producers it is important to develop their production in a way, where it has limited impact on the environment, the animals have a high level of welfare a