Here’s a round-up of company news in the swine industry.
RealmFive Collaborates with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health
RealmFive, based in Lincoln, Neb., announced a collaborative effort with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health to offer connectivity and decision solutions to swine production systems to advance remote connectivity and herd health across the swine industry.
Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, these companies have been collaborating to develop a swine-centric solution that combines the expertise of both companies. Over the last year, the relationship has resulted in a strong collaboration, new products and innovative pilot customers, RealmFive said in a release.
RealmFive’s Barn View solution includes feed, water, air and effluent components. Barn View devices are extremely easy to install, enabling technology adoption, even with animals in barns, the release said.
Steve Tippery, CEO at RealmFive, said “more than 90% of swine barns in North America are not connected to the internet. Because of this, he said most producers are not able to take advantage of the standardization and efficiency gains that come from having access to data across their enterprise.
RealmFive’s team leveraged existing technology to develop versions of the Flex Mini wireless monitoring device. One of the exclusive and patent-pending capabilities of Flex Mini is feed outage detection, the company said.
The entire system is wireless, battery operated and typically installs in a livestock barn in under 30 minutes. Fully cloud-based Barn View software can be viewed on a range of smart devices from a smart phone to a desktop computer.
Boehringer Ingelheim’s FARMERA, a mobile app designed by Boehringer Ingelheim that installs on any Android or iOS smart device, is a new generation in farm management, bringing evidence-based decision making to swine production systems, the company said. It uses real-time, health-related information combined with actionable farm-performance parameters. FARMERA was built to be the hub of an integrated ecosystem. For a given swine production system, the aggregation and collection of data provides streamlined, transparent, and timely availability of information for an overall snapshot at both the farm and production system levels.
RealmFive and FARMERA have an API agreement which allows customer data to be virtually connected from RealmFive’s Barn View platform to Boehringer Ingelheim’s FARMERA data platform, the release said. Barn View and FARMERA have been undergoing pilot deployments across the U.S. and the solution is now available for sale to customers. For more information, contact RealmFive or FARMERA.
Putney joins ChopLocal
ChopLocal announced today Mark Putney has been hired as the Director of Business Development for the Iowa-based company. Putney is an experienced farmer and project manager from Elgin, Iowa. He will be focused on expanding ChopLocal’s network of farmers and butcher shops in order to provide local meat to customers across the country.
Putney’s professional background includes positions related to Software as a Service (SaaS), project management and account management. He also has an extensive background in regenerative agriculture and has served on the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association’s board of directors since 2014.
ChopLocal, an online marketplace focused on helping farmers and butchers increase their direct-to-consumer sales, was founded by Jared Achen and Katie Olthoff in 2020.
Putney lives on a farm near Elgin, Iowa with his wife, Kari, and four children. For more information, visit ChopLocal.
Chr. Hansen and UPL announce a long-term collaboration
Chr. Hansen is joining forces with global agricultural solutions provider UPL in a unique partnership to strengthen the existing portfolio of microbial products and provide farmers with sustainable choices beyond conventional agricultural products, the company said in a release.
“Biological solutions are becoming more and more in demand as the agriculture industry faces challenges such as the growing resistance to chemicals and an increasingly challenging regulatory environment. Developing biostimulants and biopesticides is an important step in providing sustainable crop protection while increasing farmers’ yield and productivity,” Chr. Hansen said in a release.
Under the terms of the partnership, Chr. Hansen will develop biological products based on their microbial capabilities and UPL will register and commercialize these products via its extensive global distribution network.
The Chr. Hansen-UPL partnership has already identified several projects relevant to farmers globally and aims to develop a product pipeline for most major crops that will enable farmers to fight crop diseases and increase their yields. The companies expect the first registrations by the end of 2022.
DW Prouty Joins BinMaster Network
Processors in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle will now get local access to BinMaster solutions. Dwight W. Prouty Company has been serving a diverse base of industrial manufacturers and power plants since 1969. The company will now offer the full line of BinMaster sensors and software solutions, BinMaster said in a release. The Mobile, Alabama-based company provides integrated industrial solutions for the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, pulp, paper, mining, food, petrochemical, and many other industries.
Jed Prouty, son of founder Dwight Prouty, says, “We’re very excited to partner with BinMaster and bring a robust portfolio of high-quality level sensors and software to our community of customers. With supply chain issues and material shortages running rampant, there is a surging demand for inventory management products in many industries we work with. Adding BinMaster to our line card enables us to address the evolving needs of our customers.”
Prouty will offer BinMaster’s entire product line, including the exclusive 3DLevelScanner.
For more information, visit www.binmaster.com.
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