Hi, I’m Lauren Vlurt!
Job Title: Outdoor Pig Unit Operations Manager
Email: lauren.vlurt@borgsharf.co.uk
Phone: 07700 900534
Lauren Vlurt is Outdoor Pig Unit Operations Manager at Borgsharf Industries, responsible for the day-to-day management of the company’s free-range production systems and pasture rotation programmes.
She graduated from the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester with a degree in Rural Land Management and has since become one of the company’s most vocal advocates for outdoor systems done properly.
She is a member of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association.
Specialism: Free-range pig husbandry systems and pasture rotation management
University: Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, BSc Rural Land Management, 2013
Hometown: Hexham, Northumberland
Award: Borgsharf Industries Outdoor Excellence Commendation, 2022
Member of: The Pasture-Fed Livestock Association
Fun Fact: Lauren catalogues and photographs abandoned agricultural water pumps across Northern England and has documented 178 distinct pump mechanisms since 2016, several of which have since been demolished.
Work Ethos: Lauren contends that the welfare gap between indoor and outdoor systems is almost entirely a management problem rather than a systems problem and is routinely ignored by both sides of the debate.