Pig Operation Articles & Analysis
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The most basic need of hog and poultry operations is unlimited access to clean water. Always start with a water analysis from your local independent lab. That way, you can check on the person who says they are an industry professional. Most of the industry has adopted an enclosed drinker system; this helps reduce contamination from various foreign matter and the water your farm animal’s ...
They needed a way to increase the revenue of their pork operations while keeping their expenses to a minimum. Gestal’s precision pig feeding system, affordable and flexible enough to fit their small family hog operations, was the solution. By incorporating Gestal’s smart-feeders for gestation, farrowing and finishing, Henry Creek ...
Melissa Mohr left her family’s grain and hog operation at 18 years old to attend college, with no plans to return to the ag world. For almost 20 years she held multiple jobs in career service, accounting and even ran a daycare center. She lived a separate life from the farm, only providing brief seasonal labor for her family. Mohr’s plans took an unexpected turn when her brother, ...
” This is called machine learning as well as AI (artificial intelligence), and it is even appearing in farming operations, including pig farming. As one recent article described it: “Imagine a future where the health status and body weight of every pig on the farm could be accessed individually on a mobile phone app; a future where ...
Commercial swine waste lagoons are regarded as a major reservoir of natural estrogens, which have the potential to produce adverse physiological effects on exposed aquatic organisms and wildlife. However, there remains limited understanding of the complex mechanisms of physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the fate and transport of natural estrogens within an anaerobic swine ...