The plan is now in tatters, after the government announced this week that the country's entire mink population must be culled to prevent a mutated
Coronavirus from spreading in the animals and in humans.
The decision, described as a "black day" by the organisation representing a sector that exports $800 million worth of mink pelts annually, was particularly painful because Jeppesen's 36,000 minks are healthy and free from the virus.
Jeppesen said the industry, which employs 4,000 people in Denmark, would probably never recover from the blow.