UK Farropen Wins Innovation of the Year | Matthew Wilkin

About the Guest Matthew Wilkin is a pork producer and the owner of White Syke farm, a 2,000 sow family farm in Yorkshire, UK. He is also the inventor and co-founder of FARROPEN, which is a company that manufactures and distributes unique 360-degree farrowing pens. On White Syke Farm all of the sows are loose housed and farrowed in these 360-degree free farrowing pens designed and built in-house. Matthew Wilkin What can you learn from this episode of Popular Pig? Matthew Wilkin’s background and role in the swine industryThe history of loose housing and free farrowing in the UKThe benefits and challenges of loose housing and free farrowingThe reason Farropen was invented and what makes it differentAccounting for government regulations when making future business decisionsMatthew Wilkin’s “golden nugget” For more information visit farropen.co.uk