Extensive pig production systems, e.g., free-range production
or other forms of enriched production, have gained
increasing interest in Europe and North America
Beside a few traditional pig production systems, e.g.,
Iberian pig production in La Dehesa a change from confinement to enriched
systems including aspects of free-range will be a challenge
in a pig production, which is being constantly modernised,
as pointed out in several papers
Organic pig production is one of the enriched systems,
which has attracted most attention in Denmark. Subsidized
change from confinement to organic pig production during
the last years of the past century has established a certain
potential in Denmark. However, throughout the period
2001–2004, the market share of organic pork was only
around 0.5–0.6% without any tendency to increase much
further. Consequently, the recent demand for high quality
organic pork in the UK and at the German market has been followed with great interest in
Denmark.