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Intensive piggery
FOR SALE
190 CAPACITY, FARROW TO FINISH
Great Southern WA | 430ha | 390ha cleared | Freehold
• 400mm rainfall
• No environmental problems
• Adequate water supplies
• Centre laneway; eight paddocks
• Significant potential for
expansion of piggery
• Facilities in good working order
• Complies with 2017 pig
housing requirements
• Minimal disease piggery
• PIC genetics
• Stock and piggery feed
available at valuation
• Bitumen road frontage
• Current contract for pig sales/
immediate income every two weeks
• Property includes house, pig housing, machinery sheds, grain storage, sheep yards and shearing shed
• Additional house available in local township
• Quality assurance in place • Diversified production in
reliable agricultural region • Share farming agreement is currently in place for sheep and cropping for next two
years
• Lease option may be
considered from honest, genuine, experienced, qualified personnel only.
Long-term owner wishes to move to retirement mid-2017. Current owner could be available on no-charge consulting basis if desired to potentially ensure current financial and production figures are maintained in the immediate future.
Forgenuineinquiries,email- emjay99@wn.com.au
Tim Croagh and Holly Sterne visited a Danish farmer with farm veterinarians Dr Laura Jensen, Dr Niels Hjornholm and Dr Claus Larsen from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Global Symposium on Sustainable Pork Production
IN March, Tim Croagh from Western Plains Pork in Victoria and Holly Sterne from Patoa Farms in New Zealand attended the Boehringer Ingelheim Global Sym- posium on Sustainable Pork Production in Kra- kow, Poland.
Fifty pork producers and veterinarians from around the world were invited to
participate in the three- day forum to meet and exchange their expertise and experiences about pork production, sustain- ability and the marketing of their pork.
The theme of the sym- posium was ‘The global pig market: What do your cards look like for the fu- ture?’
Topics covered included
animal welfare, retail and market trends for food and the success of the Chilean pork industry in its efforts to export pork into Asia.
In addition to the op- portunity to learn from world-leading experts at the forum, there was also plenty of time for the par- ticipants to share their ex- periences with each other.
A unique feature at the
end of each session was the presentation of the views expressed by every- one, both in areas of com- monality and divergence, which was very useful to participants.
Tim said, “The Sustain- able Pork Production con- ference in Krakow was very good and gave me a great understanding of where our industry here is expecting to focus on in the next few years.”
“The range of speakers and their topics was of great value.”
Another key highlight for Tim and Holly was a two- day farm tour in Denmark looking at outdoor and or- ganic pig production.
The farm tour provided insight into the similar challenges that Danish, New Zealand and Aus- tralian farmers all face in farrowing sows outdoors, as well as the considerable differences in the regula- tion of Danish farming practices compared to Australasia and the dif- ferent interpretations on what constituted free range pork.
To conclude the tour, the group visited the Danish Crown slaughter facility in Horsens, which slaugh- ters and processes 20,000 pigs a day.
During the tour, the group was impressed with the efficiency of the slaughter and process- ing freely visible through windows alongside the company office.
Those at Danish Crown pride themselves on the full disclosure of the slaughter process to their consumers, demonstrating very clearly where their food comes from.
Holly Sterne said, “The Sustainable Pork Pro- duction conference and subsequent visits to pig farms in Denmark gave me an understanding of the appetite for addressing growing consumer focus on animal welfare.”
“It was also good to see first-hand how farmers are shortening the sup- ply chain and overcoming challenging environmen- tal factors on the farm.”
Boehringer Ingelheim is proud to support both Australian and New Zea- land pork producers by fa- cilitating experiences such as this to bring knowledge and expertise back to the local pork industry.
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