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The two newly established leadership development groups - one for directors and one for production directors has their first physical meeting in the beginning of 2024.
The director group has first meeting 14 - 15 March 2024 in Copenhagen and the Production Director Group has its first meeting on January 31 to February 1 in Slovakia – including a visit at First Farms. Both groups are facilitated by Thomas Asmussen, Genesi.
Contact the Secretariat if you are interested in hearing more about the leadership development groups, as there are still a few vacancies. Mail: info@danishfarmersabroad.dk
One of DFA's oldest ERFA groups - ERFA 2- consisting of primarily leading production managers (production directors) and having Martin Thorsen as coordinator, visited in October Bulgaria and the Austrian-owned pig farm: Agrosip, with 2,500 sows in full line.
See the group's impression of the visit and of the country in general here.
With Henrik Nielsen as coordinator, ERFA group 4 in November visited the company Idavang in Lithuania. The group consists of 15 leading production managers. The program also included a focus on ASF and Biosecurity.
See Tom Axelgaard's summary of the visit in Lithuania here.
Impressions from DFA Study Trip to Japan in November
This year, 30 DFA members participated in DFA annual study trip, which went to Japan. The participants got a fantastic impression of the country - both the southern part with dense urban development and the northern more rural part with intensive farming.
Read Tom Axelgaard's full summary of the study trip here.
DFA Benchmarking Group met in November
DFA's oldest ERFA Group - "DFA Benchmarking Group" - has met for more than 20 years twice a year - spring and autumn. This regularity reflects that the group's meetings really cover an important need to gain new knowledge and not least exchange experiences.
The group's members are all directors of an agricultural business with activities in countries such as Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Venezuela and Denmark. Johannes V Hansen coordinates the group's meetings.
At the recent meeting at the begining of November in Denmark, the group, in addition to internal exchange of experience, also received input from external experts about: Expectations for the development of the pork market in the short and long term; Protein production based on fly larvae; "Future Farming" and DanAvl's breeding strategy.
The DFA Conservation Ag Network Group meet 8 - 9 November in Slovakia. The main topics was: No till transition, organic farming, general cover cropping approach and mice management. The meeting was planned and hosted by the company DanSlovakia Agrar in Velky Meder.
The group includes crop managers from companies in eastern Europe including Ukraine.
Read coordinator Frederik Larsen, Agrovi - report from meeting here.
An energetic group of feed mill and farm managers from DFA member companies had an inspiring and fruitful seminar in beautiful Budapest to widen out their knowledge within sustainable feed production. The group represents some of the largest European pork producers from 12 companies and located in 10 European countries.
The seminar was arranged in a collaboration between DSM and Danish Farmers Abroad.
Read Tom Axelgaards resume of the seminar here.
Ultimo November 20 Lean managers and other interested from DFA member companies had two exiting days in Denmark. Sofie Hammerskov facilitated and led the training activities and the program through Lean games, theories, tools. The seminar included visits at Velux, Lego and an agricultural company as well.
See the video expressing the activities in the Lean Seminar.
The seminar will be followed up by organizing the managers in a DFA Lean ERFA- group, intended to start in 2024.
Are you interested to hear more about it – please contact DFA Secretariat on mail: info@danishfarmersabrod.dk. Or to coordinator Sofie Hammerskov : sofie@hammerskov.dk
The new established DFA Crop Manager ERFA-group including 15 crop managers from companies in Slovakia, Poland, Czech Repl. and Romania met at Dan-Slovakia Agrar, Velky Meder, in south Slovakia, late November 2023.
Read Ole Schou, VKST – coordinator of the group – resume of the group´s first meeting her.
The yearly event in the DFA HR ERFA group was held in Copenhagen ultimo November 2023. Having a meeting base at Goodvalleys DK office we shared experience around HR topics in all from management of personal data, artificial intelligence, recruitment, training concepts and not at least the role of HR as a business partner and the managers responsibility for his/her people.
Read the resume made by Sofie Hammerskov – coordinator of the group – here.
Read Henrik Laursen, Dan-Slovakia and Jens Møller Knudsen's status on the crop production season 2023 and figures from the last harvested crops.
See their reports here.
My personal benefit of being part of DFA Network
Ferdinand Rasztgyorgy has been a manager at Dan-Slovakia during 15 years and is to day responsible for the weaned pig department. He has participated in DFA leadership training activities and been member of DFA ERFA 4 -group during several years.
Read his personal essay here.
DFA Activity Plan 2024
Here is an overview of planned activities in the first half of 2024. More will be added
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DK Embassy Chile invites to Business Delegation visit in Chile – focus on pig production
We are reaching out to you as a reminder that next year we will be hosting a Business Delegation to meet Chilean pig producers in collaboration with The Danish Agriculture & Food Council (DAFC).
The Delegation will take place in Chile between 15th -19th of January, and will act as a great opportunity, for Danish companies along the pig value chain, to meet various Chilean companies.
For registration/more information please visit the delegation’s website, or contact organizers Peter Michael Heller at pmhe@if.dk, or Sacha Garafulic at sacgar@um.dk .
Agricultural Companies looking for new managers
EDU Farm Serbia
TK Agro East Slovakia
Premium Porc Group, Romania – manure coordinator
Rubenlund Agro, Denmark
Persons seeking new job opportunities
Teja Wisnu - CV
Projects seeking investors
Ghana – palmoil production
Croatia - agricultural land for sale
Presentation of new products from Companies - member of DFA
FarmBackup – GPS-tracking system
Rentokil – Bird alert equipment
DFA Company Members
See the entire list of Companies member of DFA.
