Integrated thoughts

Recently I took part in a seminar on breeding and hatching, which was organised by Wageningen University in my home country, the Netherlands. Among the various topics covered, was one on the difference between integration models. In the Netherlands, most farms (rearing, breeding and broiler growing) are individually, family owned farms. In most cases this also holds true for hatcheries, feed manufacturing and processing operations which are privately owned businesses. In other words, in this (