Insights That Keep You Ahead
Knowledge & Insights
Stay sharp between events. DFA webinars bring expert guests and member perspectives directly to you – focused, practical, and built around what matters to people running serious agricultural operations.
Past webinars
What China's restructuring means for your feed costs and EU pork exports
27 March 2026 · DSM-Firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health
Adolfo Fontes & Feng Ye, DSM-Firmenich
Key takeaways
- Farms over 500 hogs now account for nearly 70% of Chinese pork production — chronic oversupply is the result, and it is not reversing.
- China imports over 80% of its soybeans — any disruption to Brazilian supply moves your feed costs, wherever you farm.
- The window for premium European pork in China is not closing overnight — but it is narrowing. Watch sow herd size and top integrators expanding into Southeast Asia.
Full summary document for DFA members – contact ph@danishfarmersabroad.dk
AI in practice - part 1: What already pays off
15 April 2026 · SEGES Innovation & DFA
Peter Bisgaard Nikolajsen, SEGES Innovation & Pia Hinz, DFA
Key takeaways
- The fastest ROI from AI is not complex automation – it is eliminating small, repetitive tasks that eat 20–30 minutes at a time.
- Practical workflows covered: drafting emails, meeting summaries, translating technical documents, and building simple planning tools.
The Great Handover: succession, exit and who finances the farm next
3 June 2026 · Blue Harvest & DFA
Jens Ohnemus, CEO Blue Harvest S.A. / Founder FarmCompany
Key takeaways
- Farm values are at historic highs — but the pool of successors, buyers and willing lenders has not grown with them.
- Family succession is no longer the default answer. External capital and structured partial exits are becoming realistic options for owners who plan early.
- The owners who get good outcomes start the conversation 5–10 years before they need to — not when the decision is forced on them.
Full summary document for DFA members – contact ph@danishfarmersabroad.dk
AI for busy Farm Leaders
2 September 2026 · DFA
With Lars Drescher, Group CEO Premium Porc, part of DCH International
Key takeaways
- Stay human and personal. Use AI to become more efficient. Keep your own voice, judgement and relationships.
- Practice makes expert. Start with real tasks, test, adjust and try again.
- Don’t outsource your thinking. Form your own view first – then use AI to develop, structure, challenge and improve it.
- Teach AI how you work. Your tone of voice, preferred formats and recurring workflows can increasingly be saved and reused.
- Push it further. Don’t stop at the first output. Ask what is missing, what could be improved, what’s trending – and what else AI could do with the same information.
- Move from chat to agents. Give AI clear instructions and controlled access to the right files and systems, and it can increasingly execute entire multi-step workflows for you – not just advise you.
- The limit is increasingly our imagination rather than the technology.