Hestbjerg 15th Generation Organic Family Pig Farm Denmark 2023
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- Hestbjerg 15th Generation Organic Family Pig Farm Denmark 2023
Today I am at the Hestbjerg Organic Pig Farm in Holstebro, Denmark with Marianne Hestbjerg. What an amazing experience! They have 1500 sows and produce 27,000 pigs annually. There are happy piglets in the pastures everywhere. This is a wonderful example of sustainable, regenerative agriculture and a 15th-generation family farm. The managed forest is an amazing hideout for the pigs, with mud puddles to cool off on hot summer days. The old farmhouse was restored, and the family name and dates are in the cobblestone driveway. All the pigs live and play outside in the pastures and are the happiest pigs I have ever met. Animal welfare is their top priority. The Hesbjergs sell under the market labels Poppelgris, Bertel’s Gris, and Måltidsboxen in Denmark, EU. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to show you this multi-century farm and its story! They have taken pig farming to the next level! Farm tours are available if you are ever in Holstebro, Denmark. I hope you enjoy my video, and thank you for watching.
Hestbjerk Organic Pig Farm Website: hestbjerg.dk/
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Hello. My name is Kate Stephens, and I am an 18-year-old 4th-generation Montana farmer. My family has been farming wheat in north-central Montana since my great grandfather immigrated from Denmark in 1912 and homesteaded our land. My family has been teaching me about farming since I was two years old. I run one of the combines on the farm at harvest. I believe that it is important for everyone to know where their food comes from and the families who produce it. I love our farm, and I hope that my Farm to Fashion and Farm to Table products can help educate people about where their food comes from in a fun way. That is how Kate's Ag - Farm to Fashion became a reality. I hope you love my products as much as I do because this is an extension of our farm and the grains we have been growing to feed other families for over one hundred years.
Very clean pig farm !!!!
Yes it was. I was impressed.
Yes and the pigs are so cute too! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Hi Kate, nice to see you! Another very enjoyable video thank you. You are such a beautiful person, TH-cam is very lucky to have you as a creator!
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and huge compliment Mr. Geran! You made my day!
Good job 👍
Hello Kate ag from Montana, Kate thank you so much for another very educational and interesting video, it appears that no matter where in the world you visit, we are all on same page, trying to make this a better world, bye Kate from Texas 🤠👍
Thank you for your huge compliment and wonderful kindness!!!! It was really fun and so interesting!
We are So Happy for You doing some Great Traveling, another Great Video!! Yay Kate show.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and great encouragement!
Very great video 🐖🐽🐷kate thank you so much beautiful kate Lady 🙏😘♥️🌹😍well done kate great job kate 👍thank you ♥️🌹
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
@@KatesAg thank you so much sweet kate ♥️🌹😊👍
Kate on WORLD-TOUR ! That is great !!
LOL! It is so fun and interesting too! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Haha Kate waving at a fellow tractor operator does brighten their day 😊 it took three tries but you got a wave and a big smile one the third try.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!! LOL
Great video Kate , didn't know there was an organic pig farm of this size!
Yes isn't it incredible? I was very honored to be able to visit and learn so much! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
That is the way all animals we raise for food should be treated! They're allowed to do everything that comes naturally, and their immune systems are stronger for being outside in the fresh air. Like Gabe Brown's North Dakota farm, a great example of regenerative ag. Thanks for sharing this Miss Kate!
I totally agree and thank you for the great info!!!! I appreciate your wonderful kindness and great encouragement Ms. Ezop!!!! You made my day!
Thanks for the video Kate! Very interesting indeed. That's the way I have always imagined treating animals on a farm. They are living creatures! Not only meat for us. Thanks again Kate! You are my favorite farm girl! Lol! May God keep you, wherever you go. 😍 Byyyyyye...👋👋👋
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and blessing!
@@KatesAg Thanks for taking the time to reply! That's one of the reason you are my favorite farm girl. May God keep you safe, Kate! Byyyyyye❤👋👋👋
Greetings from Italian pig farmer, thanks for the nice report!
Love how they holding their Pigs outside. these are happy Pigs with a lot of Space to move and they eat healthy natural Food. Thanks for the nice Video, Kate you rock. 💯🔔🔔🔔👍
Yes they are very happy pigs!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
What a really interesting video. That really looks like great operation that not only takes good care of the animals but the environment as well. And those really did look like happy pigs and the piglets looked so adorable. 🐷🐷 Thank you so much once again.😊
Yes they really are happy pigs and they are super cute too! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Hello Kate. I see you spend your free time in Europe. From organically bred animals, we have very tasty and healthy products, meat and milk. All the best.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!
Hello Kate! Nice. Lucky and happy Pigs, Greetings to You. Bye❤️
Thank you Mr. Rossetti for your wonderful kindness!
Thank you Kate for another interesting and educational video. God bless you.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and blessing!!!!!!!!
Haven't seen any kate's ag videos lately. Are you in school? It's easy to sit here while you do all the work. We miss you and your family. Wish you well and a good life. God bless kate!
Oh my , Kate's it looks like your doing an outstanding job of videoing work on lots of farm lifes.....thank you very much I do share you stories with my grand kids.....
this is so much better than factory farming where pigs are packed like sardines
What does organic pigs eat?
Yes, I totally agree!!! Thank you for your terrific comment!
Great marketing strategy..
That is how modern capitalism elites capitalists treat their pigs and employees... happy pigs make tasty bacon 🥓... hmmmm..
Can't wait for UBI to start ignite our communism flame 🔥.. hmmmm..
Actually, I’m only 14 and almost 15 and would like to inform you mr communist that what you speak of is indeed not capitalism it’s fascism. A pseudo private government mix of academics who bounce back and forth from private to govt and are super top down power rulers of peoples lives.
Mr. Commie we not capitalist in the us and that’s the prob. Any time we try and point out how wrong we got we’re called fascist by the commies.
@@america_and_avigailfarm_ki5351 any thing that create a surplus using human labour and human resources to acquire that very definition isn't our righteous communism philosophy..
My dear young child.. there are no different within the definition of fascism and capitalism economic greeds.. hmmmm.. because both philosophy are motivated by surplus and greeds..
Yet UBI, free Medicare free electricity, energy, food, in a context of a utopian society way of living is our communism cause.. hmmmm..
And yes the creation of artificial intelligence, repetitive machines and robotic technologies will make our communism reality great again.. hmmmm..
Das es so etwas gibt hätte ich nie gedacht. Tiere die wie Tiere, fast noch schöner leben können - einmalig - meine Hochachtung und Dankeschön für diese Arbeit.
Beautiful farm and house. Nice job Kate
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Always enjoy the ‘winter season’ mix of videos.
Thank you for your amazing kindness and great encouragement!!!!!!
I glad that you are able to travel at your age Kate. I never had that opportunity to do that, all I have done is work after my dad died. You are doing such a great job on your channel. We had a bad snow storm last Thursday and I plowed for 18 hrs straight in the tractor. Hope you have a good and safe travel home. Dave.
Interesting. One of the things my grandfather felt was important for a young man to know was how to nut a hog. The use of a single strand of electric fencing is interesting. The water for thee mud puddle to deal with heat. So nice video.
I never know where I am going to run into you next. Good job Kate.
LOL! I never know either!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
I loved this video Kate. Who would have thought that pigs, treated with respect, not crammed into small pens in a building could gain such recognition. As I have stated before, you are just one awesomely amazing person Kate, you are opening the eyes of farmers everywhere to better ways of farming.
Thank you for your huge compliment and amazing kindness Mr. Davidson! I really enjoyed visiting this wonderful farm and seeing the happy pigs!
Another awesome video to watch thank you for bringing us along
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Merci Kate pour cette intéressante vidéo sur l'élevage des porcs bio au Danemark ,depuis 10 ans plusieurs éleveurs En Suisse on commencé ce genre d'élevage j'aime voir les familles de cochons dans ls nature, cela change des anciennes porcheries qui puaient dans nos village . les porcs était engraissés dans des bâtiments et ils étaient serrés ils mangeaient à l'époque de la farine et du petit lait qui restait après la fabrication du Gruyère. Je te souhaite une bonne semaine Albert
Merci pour votre belle histoire et votre gentillesse ! Je suis totalement d'accord et ce fut un véritable honneur de visiter cette ferme fantastique !
Nice to see how farmers from other countries are caring for their crops and animals
I totally agree!!! Thank you for your great comment and wonderful kindness Mr. C!
Thanks!
Thank you for your great support and wonderful kindness Mr. Mowry! You made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video keep up the good work!
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Great to see the pigs running outside 😊
Yes I totally agree! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!
Thanks Kate. Very nice tour of the pig farm.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!!!!!
Hi. Kate. It's. Me. Wade. Ok hun 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Thank you!!
Hi Kate great interview and nice farm house,happy Kate with happy pigs make tasty bacon sandwiches
Bacon is delicious! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
@@KatesAg they are 🐷
Kate, after visiting different countries around the world, you should think about writing a book on the different forms of agriculture in e.g. farming cows and pigs etc.
Thank you for your great suggestion and wonderful kindness!
Boa tarde kate muito seus conteudos diferenciados👏👍
Muito obrigado por sua gentileza maravilhosa! Você fez meu dia!
That was fun with all the happy piglets.
Yes they were super cute!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
What an awesome video! Thanks so much for giving us the opportunity to see a different side of pig farming from another country. I love the Nederlands, so this was pretty special to watch! I have a few friends who live there as well, who are world class pigeon racing breeders and flyers.. 🙂
Thank you for your wonderful kindness! It really was amazing to see such an amazing operation!
@@KatesAg .. YW
Wow! Wonderful and inspirational way to farm. Thanks for bringing this to us.
Yes it really is an inspiration! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Kate you do amazing work with your channel !!! 108k subscribers and growing up so fast!!! I've learned so much from you, you're truly an inspiration Kate ❤💯🙏
Thank you for your huge compliment and wonderful kindness!!!! You made my day!
kate, thank you for sharing. it is always good to your smiling face. love the positiveness you bring, and the ideas you share.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!
Good morning Kate! Thank you for sharing. I personally have always enjoyed meat that isn't cooped up in a little cage. What else can I say? Just tastes better. Thank You and have a fantastic week! 👍👍👍😎😎😎
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and great story!!!!!!!
Great Show KATE😇
Thank you Mr. Cooney for your wonderful kindness!
I am so loving your videos. You get to many places!!
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
That women seems like quite a personality and very kind. Definitely an interesting interview.
Yes Marianne was the nicest lady ever!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!!!!!!!!!
very beautiful amazing place greetings from burley Idaho Kate
Thank you Mr. Idaho for your wonderful kindness! It was so incredible and I learned so much! Plus the pigs were so cute!
Another well done interview. Kate. Was a joy to see all those happy pigs enjoying life. An yes they are very smart .
Thank you for your huge compliment and wonderful kindness! It really was amazing and great to see such happy pigs!
Awesome video my friend 👍👍👍👍👍
Wow, what a nice operation they have there. And the little piggy’s are treated so well. Thanks for showing us this Kate.✌️🇨🇦
Yes the pigs are really happy! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!!!!!
You did a really good job with the interview Kate!
Thank you for your huge compliment and wonderful kindness!
Hello Kate a great interview & story about Organic Pig Farming in Denmark, I think you had a wonderful time with those little Piggies , another learning video, good on you Kate, Cheers & Best Wishes to you & your Family, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.🐕🐎🐎🦌🦌🐂🐂🐃🐃🐽🐽🐐🐐🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦃🦃🐔🐓🐓🏵🏵🏵🏵🌺🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌴🌴🌴
That's one cool pig 🐷 farm Kate . Please keep the videos coming Beautiful ❤️
Yes I thought it was pretty amazing! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Wonderful video Kate ! Hope your enjoying your time in Denmark. Sending prayers for your safe travels. 🙏
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and prayers!
Awesome video 👍
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
That was great Kate.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
🇺🇸HI KATE!🙋 I LOVE PIGS! THEY ARE SO SMART! GREAT VIDEO! 👍THANK YOU! OK,.....BYE!👋🇺🇲
Yes they really are smart and so cute!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!
Very interesting, I enjoy your visits to other farming operations around the US and other countries.
Thank you so much for your wonderful kindness Mr. Reynolds!
Great video. Different.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
farming around the world … this is great
I totally agree! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!
Thank you
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Thank you Miss Kate for sharing your wonderful adventure with us. God Bless You and stay well.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and blessing!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video Kate I do believe that farm and all animals should be treated well an with dignity. Thanks for sharing 😊👍
I totally agree and it was really fantastic to see this incredible farm and the happy pigs! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!
Good job. Fantastic interview. Learned a lot
Thank you for your wonderful kindness! You made my day!
Thanks for the introduction to livestock production in Denmark, Kate. I'm so glad you were able to visit there. My wife and I were fortunate enough to have visited Denmark a few years ago. It's a great place, mostly because of the people. They are exceptionally conscientious and kind. They remind me of the people in the midwest US, who often have Danish heritage.
Thank you for your great story and wonderful kindness! It was really an amazing experience and a lot of fun!
I liked the discussion of the age of things on the farm. When we lived un England our home wea a 450 year old thatcher roof cottage we attended church in a 1000 old Norman church
Very impressive Kate. Great video! Keep up the good work you are doing.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and great encouragement!
That was a great video!…very informative!…thanks for sharing this!…😎
Thank you for your wonderful kindness! You made my day!
You . Are learning so much. N 💜 teaching us. Thank you for all ur hard work 💞. .lv ur videos. All ur hard work 😘 matters. Stay safe 💟 healthy n 💜 strong. Ms Kate. Prayers always.
What does a pig say on a hot sunny day?
🐷I'm bacon!
Enjoying the farm videos from Denmark while relaxing with a coffee and Danish... and hamming it up.
LOL!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!
Wow thank you for sharing
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Wow Kate, this was absolutely amazing to see. I have never seen pigs this happy :) . I would certainly be happy to pay more for meat if all pigs could live like this.
I agree and I really believe that people would pay more if they knew the pigs were happy and healthy! Thank you for your great comment and wonderful kindness!!!!!!!!
Hi Kate. It's nice to see you doing this kind of content. I always see you doing videos about crops or fruits (how they are processed, etc) but seldom about livestock. I've seen you cover cattle before somewhere in the South or mid-West (auction) but not about other livestock. It's nice that you covered a piggery farm here in your newest blog. I thought it would be all serious and formal but there's a comic relief at about 5:06 mark when the farm lady manager said " See the sow. She's a little dirty now. I'll tell her to lie down - please lie down, please lie down. I know it's not working because they don't speak English but they enjoy being here in the shed...." This made me laugh and made the interview much light-hearted and likable. Also midway through the blog at about 7:00 mark, I've learned something. I've seen vlogs about piggery and some cut off the tail of the piglets without really knowing the reasons why. Today, I learned that it is also a measure of the pig's condition that if the pigs are contented, they don't bite the tail of another. Since they are happy in the farm, there's no need to cut off their tails. hmmmm. interesting. Keep up the good work Kate and more power.
Thank you for your great comment and wonderful kindness! I really enjoyed my visit.
I love farming 🌳🌳🌳🍀🍀🍀☘🌿🌿🌿🌱🌱🌱🌱💕💕💕💖💖💖👏👏👏🖒🖒
Kate love your videos
Lots of great information and amazing area. Great interview Kate
Thank you for your wonderful kindness! You made my day!
That is very interesting about organic pigs I never heard of that Before. 15 generations That's amazing. Other good video Kate I enjoyed this one I learned a lot.
I thought is was very interesting too and it was so nice to be able to visit! Thank you for your wonderful kindness Mr. King! You made my day!
@@KatesAg You're Sooooooooo Welcome Kate 🙂
Wow! Kate you had a lot of fun visiting Denmark. Thank you for visiting this pig farm in Holstebro Denmark and sharing pig farming with all of us who are American city slickers. You are such a good sport even when the pig spattered mud on your vest.
hi Kate thanks for a vonderful video yes denmark are vonderful
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Kate's International Ag!
She was busy this summer while farming she was also traveling and making these videos to keep us enlightened and entertained while she's away at college right now. Well done! You are a busy industrious young lady indeed! :-)
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and huge compliment! You made my day!
Wow 🤩 Kate what a great video. I love pigs and their farming process is amazing 😮
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!
Those are some happy pigs now I know what I want to come back as a piggie.
WOW very interesting. 15 Th generations. Impressed.
Miss Kate and your family like your videos all you make they are so beautiful to watch God bless you all
Thank you for your wonderful kindness and blessing!
Very educational, very nice lady. Nice to see the respectful handling.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness! It was so nice to visit and see the happy pigs!
Another great video Kate! Indeed pigs are very intelligent. Amazing how all the piglets stay with their moms. It is great that Marianne Hestbjerg can speak English so well. That must be very nice if you can still talk to others in your own language so far from home! As you know I live in the Netherlands but I can understand you very well, I don't need any subtitels in your videos! Ha ha in the end it is hilarious that your (white!) body warmer has become a bit dirty. Well, that is part of a visit to such a farm! I remember a picture of you with this pig some time ago, I thought it was in a Danish newspaper on Facebook or so. And what a beautiful Danish farm that is! Old farms are very interesting to see. Very nice that that farm has been restored and then in a way as the farm looked before.
My great-grandfather (from my mother's side) also had a farm. It still exists and is a few minutes walk from my house. Opposite is also an old farmhouse. I often come there and that is also such a beautiful old farmhouse with lots of old details from the early days. For example; in the living room (that used to be the stable) there are still beams on the ceiling and in those beams are still the hooks that the cows were attached to when they were in the stable.You used to be able to see whether a farmer had many or few cows, you could then count the stable windows. My grandfather from my father's side had a farm too and this farm also still exists! Both farms are no longer used as farms. In the small village where I live there were many farms, they are still there but not all of them are used as farms anymore. The farmers used to have ten to sixteen cows, now they have as many as 200 (of course that's not as much as the number of pigs in your video!). That means that some farmers expanded and others stopped. Now even more farmers will probably stop because too much nitrogen is being emitted. Farmers strongly protest against this. They don't want to lose their farm, which has often been in the family for generations. I think I also like your videos because I come from a farming family (in the past!). Next to my house there was an entire older farm, which has collapsed. Now there is a new one, but it is used as a residence. Near my house is a very old farm. It's so old it doesn't even have a floor in it, it's just a layer of sand with some rugs on it!
It is always fun to watch your videos on wednesday, if I then check on Wednesday whether there is a new video, then that is often not the case yet, if I look ten minutes later, there is a new video that has already been online for 40 minutes. I think it will take a while before new videos can be seen here in the Netherlands! Once again many thanks for doing all this, it must be quite a task to keep doing this alongside your studies! Lots of greetings from Marco
Thank you for your great story and wonderful kindness!
Great tour, Enjoy your trip!
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Awesome Kate! Thanks for sharing👍🏾
Thank you for the interesting video😁👍
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Kate! Very interesting operation. Lots of care taken with the hogs and their well being. It seems to be working for them - 15 generations of operation is really something! Have a nice day! 😀
It was really an honor to be able to visit this amazing farm! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Thanks that was great .Keep it up enjoy watching you.
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!
Cette ferme porcine est un vrai paradis biologique. Super. Félicitations Kate. 😀
Oui, je suis totalement d'accord et ce sont les cochons les plus heureux que j'aie jamais vus ! Merci pour votre merveilleuse gentillesse !
I am happy to see you you are in the beauty garden nice pig farming
A wonderful and enlightening interview. Thank you for sharing. I am from USA
Thank you for your huge compliment and wonderful kindness!!!!!
Amazing to keep an operation that size organic and open air, thank you.
I agree it really was amazing!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your wonderful kindness!!!!!!
I raised pigs like this in the 70s and 80s. Winter was brutal for all!
Hallo Kate, einen super interessanten Beitrag hast du hier gebracht, allerbesten Dank für die Möglichkeit mein Wissen aufzubessern.
Danke für dein tolles Kompliment und deine wunderbare Freundlichkeit! Sie meinen Tag besser!
Nice video my sister like from Panjab
Thank you Mr. Sekhon for your wonderful kindness!!!
Great job Kate. Hope you had a great week
Thank you for your wonderful kindness!