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Niels Pedersen observing his Duroc sow population.


Boots are spotless. Biosecurity in a nucleus facility is highly important.


Joint venture


Having looked around in the world of genetics he eventually decided to join an internationally operating genetics compa- ny – in mid-2018 he teamed up with PIC in a strategic part- nership. A conversation with Bill Christianson and Matt Cul- bertson, respectively COO and director of global product development at PIC, convinced him that he had found the right counterparts. “I just know that I have ended up in the right group of peo- ple,” Pedersen says. “When we shook each other’s hand to es- tablish the cooperation, it felt good.”


External biosecurity matters, hence the farm is fenced off.


On paper, the cooperation was a win-win situation for both parties, as it allows PIC to market Danish genetic material, and it also allows Pedersen access to a worldwide audience and the opportunity to be more actively involved in the fur- ther development of his own genetics. Pedersen realised he had found his soulmates outside Den- mark. For instance, hardly any adjustments were needed with regard to biosecurity, as Møllevang and PIC turned out to be already working along the same lines in many aspects, work- ing with a dirty outside zone and a clean inside zone. Peders- en says, “With the cooperation with PIC, Møllevang became


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