*POSTPONED* International pig club: Germany

This webinar has been postponed, we will share details for the re-scheduled event as soon as possible.

Join us to learn about pig production in Germany, including staffing, marketing, public perceptions, health issues, government support and more.

The next webinar in our series of international pig clubs takes us to Germany, when we will be joined by Roland van Asten, co-owner of the Van Asten Group and a 2017 Nuffield Scholar. We’ll be discussing new developments on sow and piglet feed using fermented soya, and the climate for pig production in Germany and the Netherlands.

You’ll be able to ask questions during the webinar, but if you can’t attend on the night, please submit your questions to the host, Andrew Palmer: 
andrew.palmer@ahdb.org.uk 

The webinar will be recorded and shared after the event.

If you missed any of our previous international pig clubs focusing on Brazil, Canada, China, Spain and Mexico, you can watch the recordings via our event archive.

Roland van Asten

Roland is a co-owner of the Van Asten Group and a 2017 Nuffield Scholar.

The Van Asten Group farms in the south of the Netherlands and in the German state of Thuringia.

Together with his brother and sister, they run an operation with 22,000 sows and 60,000 fatteners, as well as seven megawatt biogas plants.

They operate a circular pig production system, with liquid feed comprised of byproducts and fermented raw materials.

Roland has been working in eastern Germany since 1997, leading the construction and start-up of three farms in Thuringia.

He is currently working on the reconstruction of the German farms, as well as the new startup FermCare, which sells fermentation products in Europe.

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