In the early summer, the stud will be stocked exclusively with PIC GP and PIC Parent AI-boars. GFS, the market leader in semen production, will have 20 per cent of its capacity taken up by PIC-genetics.

This latest project fits well the companies’ strategy and follows excellent experience gained with the existing coop-studs "Herringer Heide" in North-Rhine Westphalia and "Fischbeck", Saxony-Anhalt. In future, the existing capabilities and competences shall be used in a synergetic way also in the East German states.

PIC and GFS will also focus on their specific competences. “This is an extraordinary and well-proven cooperation between a breeding company and an AI-organisation. We learnt very much from each other. Both companies have the same strategy aiming for profitable growth,” said Dr Hottelmann, from the board of directors at GFS.

With a clear division of duties the winners of this cooperation will be the customers. They will gain more profit due to PIC's focus on the genetic know-how and the GFS’s professionalism in the field of semen production and customers’ service.