Hogs Housing - Facilities
During a time when many people were cutting back and trying to minimize expenses, Joel Huber decided it was time to invest in facility improvements to help their operation be more competitive.
Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. But it hasn’t always been this way.
Every day, 11,200 Americans turn 65, resulting in over 4 million new retirees annually. This trend presents a significant challenge for the pork industry.
Agricultural producers face many pressures and challenges. With a growing population that will demand more food, and a strained climate that requires attention and adjustment of practices, it is difficult to know right from wrong and fact from fiction.
Pork producers can find technology solutions that are not only easy enough for most personnel to use, but also sophisticated enough to control practically all functions across multiple rooms. Below are five big tech trends helping to make this possible.
Here’s a round-up of new products on the market.
Five pork industry experts weigh in on what technologies they want to see in a barn someday.
Distynct is partnering with Hog Slat to offer farmers the opportunity to purchase the Distynct Smart Alarm System from Hog Slat retail locations and through their sales representatives.
While technologies such as electronic reporting systems, sensors, cameras and microphones offer exciting potential, they carry significant risk to production systems.
EPA is proposing changes to rodenticides that would result in canceling products and uses, adding more requirements to labels, and reclassifying some products to restricted use pesticides. Here’s what you need to know.
Since the beginning of the GRANTS program, we’ve been able to support invaluable research that improves how we approach disease control and management, addresses common industry challenges, and improves overall production practices, says Boehringer Ingelheim’s Reid Philips.
A three-alarm fire broke out at a swine barn on Brown Road in Versailles, Ohio, late on Friday evening.
DNA Genetics announced its recent investment in a 2,000-head commercial sow research farm, which will be home to its ongoing research to improve sow productivity and welfare.
Innovation is an indispensable catalyst for the longevity and sustainability, says Erin Limes Stickel with dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health. What’s the role of innovation in pork operations today?
The 2024 Iowa Swine Day program has a program packed with highly regarded speakers focusing on important issues facing U.S. pork producers, the Iowa Pork Industry Center announced.
Sampling and cleaning lagoons and anaerobic digesters is a dirty, but important job. Here are a few safety considerations and tips to remember when it comes to dealing with sludge.
Properly functioning ventilation systems are vital to today’s pork production facilities, and following a regular process for maintaining their operation can pay big economic dividends.
We live in a world where there is a disconnect between swine producers and pork consumers. This makes it important to understand how the public might view changes to farming practices before they happen.
As someone who thrives on outdoor adventures, I eagerly anticipate the warmer weather and the lively buzz that comes with spring. But it’s also the time when our barn ventilation systems kick into high gear,
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly.” This quote is a reminder that any undertaking that is important cannot wait for ideal circumstances before proceeding. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Due to tech advancements, ventilation management has become more complex, noting fan stages and more precise inlets for air movement, which may lead to a lack of understanding of how to optimally ventilate a barn.
Precision livestock farming technologies are rapidly being developed and increasingly available in the commercial market. With so many technologies to choose from, it can be challenging to decide which ones to invest in.
We are no longer in the “olden days” when a producer had to drive to the site to see if the barn ventilation was operating correctly because he made a ventilation change the day before based on a snapshot in time.
Ag nuisance cases in Iowa may be down for now, but Eldon McAfee, attorney with Brick Gentry P.C. in West Des Moines, Iowa, warned producers not to let their guard down and to strive to be good neighbors.
Phil Borgic vividly remembers sitting in his civics class years ago. He thought it was pretty cut and dry that one state can’t tell another how to run their business. But that didn’t apply for Prop 12, he told AgriTalk.
The FFA Swine Facility Management Contest tests the knowledge of youth on issues pertaining to swine production—feed, water, air, facility management and recordkeeping.
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel rejected challenges from environmental groups, emphasizing that the permit applications were appropriately scrutinized before approval.
Is your small swine farm ready for winter? Here are some critical steps to consider when preparing your small farm for winter.
The U.S. swine industry lost an estimated $299 million per year due to heat stress alone in 2003, says Jay S. Johnson, USDA-ARS researcher. If you adjust that for inflation, that’s more like $493 million per year now.
A Transylvania County jury found animal activist Wayne Hsiung, who was arrested in 2018 for allegedly stealing a goat, guilty on Dec. 6 of felony larceny after a breaking and entering and felony breaking and entering.