The Gobarto Group recently opened an exceptional sow management facility in Poland. The turn-key farm is one of the most modern in the country – with buildings, housing equipment and expertise from Big Dutchman. Just half an hour south-east of Frankfurt (Oder), around 210,000 weaners will now be produced annually for the finishing farms in the region.
“Big Dutchman provided all the housing equipment”
Sow management: impressive livestock project in Poland inaugurated
“This was our second project with Gobarto; the first sow farm started operation five years ago. For a facility of this size, you need an experienced and reliable partner – a partner like Big Dutchman,” says Wolfgang Etzl, the pig equipment supplier’s Director Sales Pig Europe & MEA.
The farm is located in Bieganów, a village just a few kilometres from the border between Germany and Poland. Big Dutchman planned the facility as a turn-key project and realised it in just one and a half years. “The 25 buildings were constructed by our Polish subsidiary Agricon. Big Dutchman provided all the housing equipment,” says Wolfgang Etzl.
The farm meets the highest biosecurity and technology standards and focuses on profitability and sustainability equally. For this purpose, a modern biogas plant (output: 2 MW) was erected, providing a self-sufficient source of heat and energy.
Gobarto is one of Poland’s largest pork producers and suppliers, both for the national and the international market. The group has around 2,000 employees. From Poland, Gobarto delivers not only to all of Europe, but also to many other countries around the world, including the Seychelles, Bahamas, Hong Kong and the Cape Verde islands.
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