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Bucking the trend with free range pigs in Denmark

Denmark has become almost synonymous with bacon, but free range pig farms are still something of a novelty in the country

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Lene Conradsen and Peter Bruun
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Lene Conradsen and Peter Bruun

At Greensgaard, close to Give in the Velje region of Denmark, Lene Conradsen and Peter Bruun rear 1,100 free-range sows, producing some 30,000 fattening pigs per year. Farrrowing takes place outside, while...

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