Viking Fur
Inc. was incorporated in September 2003 and
commenced commercial mink farming operations at
Cavendish, Newfoundland
Canada
in April 2004. The equal owners of the company are
Peter
Noer and Erik Dalsager. Peter and
Erik originate from Denmark
where they owned and operated successful mink
farms.
Peter Noer and Erik
Dalsager
Mr.
Peter
Noer was born in 1971. He grew up
on a mink farm that was started by his father in
1956 and has been educated in the production of
mink since childhood. Mr. Noer's formal schooling
has included primary school and further education
and training as an electrician. Since 1996, he has
been actively involved in the breeding, production
and marketing of mink on his own farm. Mr. Noer
had expanded the production and operations of his
farm to the level where he is now rated, by the
Copenhagen fur
center, among the top 10% of the total 2,500 mink
breeders in Denmark,
the largest mink nation in the
world.
Peter Noer's Mink
Farm in
Denmark Peter
Feeding the Mink
Mr. Erik Dalsager was born in 1960 and was
raised on a mink farm started by his father in
1974 and became responsible for his own production
of mink within his father's farm in
1981.
Mr. Dalsager's formal education includes
completion of his primary education followed by
four years of training as a carpenter. He is
now a qualified carpenter as well as being a
mink breeder.
Since 1986, Mr.Dalsager has worked in a
feed kitchen as manager of operations and has nine
years of direct experience in the production of
mink feed. During the same time frame, he had
brought his own mink operation up to 2,300
females, in addition to establishing a pelting
operation handling 25,000 pelts per
year.
Erik
Dalsager's Mink Farm in
Denmark
Inside a Mink Shed
The farming
of mink takes place in many counties throughout
the world. Total worldwide production had been
relatively stable over the past 20 years,
averaging around 28 million pelts on an annual
basis.
Mink pelts
production is dominated by Denmark,
which currently produces almost 35% of the world’s
production.
Market demand for mink pelts is
expected to increase as a result of increasing
demand in China
and other developing countries for fur
products.