6,000 m2 of new office-, laboratory- and conference facilities let in record time. This is reality for Agro Food Park, Denmark’s new innovation and business park within the agro-food sector, as 120 employees from 17 companies have just moved in. Located just outside Aarhus, Agro Food Park is planning for considerable expansion in coming years.

As a result of the reorganisation of the Knowledge Centre some departments have been divided and others merged.

For consumers and breeders of food products it is no longer sufficient that products are approved as organic by the state authorities. They ask for additional documentation for the organic, economic and social sustainability in the production.

Calculations undertaken by the Danish Knowledge Centre for Agriculture and the Danish Agriculture and Food Council indicate that an average full time farming operation in Denmark will attain an income of about half a million Danish kroner in 2011.

The latest positive trends in the economic gains for agriculture continue into 2012 with better earnings, increasing production and increasing investments. But farmers experience to a greater degree restrictions to an increased production.

As of February 1, 2011, Jan Mousing will be the new managing director of the Knowledge Centre for Agriculture.

Knowledge Centre for Agriculture, Danish Agricultural Advisory Service (DAAS) strengthens its international operations by founding a new international business unit.