DENMARK’S FRILAND LEADS WAGYU TRI-PARTNERSHIP PROJECT

Friland, the Danish Crown owned organic meat specialist, has entered a tri-partnership to develop Wagyu cattle herds in Denmark and produce Kobe meat for high-end consumers in Denmark and beyond, including restaurants and specialty supermarkets.It is working with Copenhagen-based Japanese restaurant Umani and the Søren Vester farming enterprise to produce Kobe-style meat from purebred black Wagyu herds.The initiative builds on a 2008 trial when the first generation Wagyu cattle were born though embryo transfer with Danish cows as surrogates. The fertilised ...


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