‘Feed conversion 1.00 is the future’

Broiler farm Bitterhoek in the Dutch village of Poortvliet raises its broilers in a six-storey Vencomatic Patio system. Bram Bevelander says, “If we ever want to expand our company further, we will definitely build another Patio house.” In the nineties of the twentieth century, the Bevelander family knew they could no longer make a living from their company with twenty bulls for fattening and 35 hectares of arable farming. They decided to apply for the necessary licenses to build their firs