- Business
- FirstFarms A/S is a Denmark-based agricultural company that acquires, develops, and operates businesses in crop production, milk production, pig production, and land portfolio development across Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billund, Denmark, the company cultivates crops including wheat, rapeseed, maize, lupine, sunflower, rye, sugar beets, grass, poppy, soybean, barley, pumpkin, sorghum, alfalfa, and peas; rears dairy cows yielding milk from approximately 2,800 milking cows in Slovakia; produces piglets and slaughter pigs from facilities with over 6,500 sows across Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; and strategically expands its land holdings through acquisitions and leasing totaling around 18,000 hectares in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, with Slovakia as the primary revenue contributor. FirstFarms generates revenue primarily from cows and calves, piglets and slaughter pigs, crops, and related activities, employing modern technologies and circular operations to serve the food industry and other agricultural entities while prioritizing risk diversification and sustainability. Recent developments include the 2024 investment of 186 million DKK from Heartland Group's Constantinsborg A/S via a directed share issue and convertible bonds, securing a 10.77% stake to fund Strategy 2028 growth targets of doubled turnover and earnings; inauguration of major pig production facilities in Hungary in 2023 with capacities for 2,000 sows and 75,000 piglets annually; ongoing construction of a silo expansion to 46,000 tons, irrigation systems covering additional 750 hectares in Romania, and the company's first dairy in Slovakia set for mid-2025 production of cream and concentrated milk products; and recovery from a 2025 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Slovakia, with the affected farm declared free in September 2025 and repopulation underway with 1,900 pregnant heifers and cows for December operations.