Farm visit: Sows as the latest addition to a family farm

Pig producer Nicolas De Wilde is located in the French-speaking part of Belgium – traditionally not a place of pig production. For him, recently, a new chapter began, as he started producing his own piglets. He is producing for the local market through his cooperative, using feed from his own land. If one didn’t know any better, one would say the sows have always been around at Nicolas De Wilde’s farm. The animals are comfortable, in both the gestation and the farrowing pens. In reality