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Swine Waste Treatment - Case Study
According to the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), the United States has more than 60,000 pork producers that annually market more than 115 million hogs, leading to an average total gross income of more than US$20 Billion1. Supporting this industry requires an estimated water demand of 525,000,000,000 gallons/yr (1,990,000,000 m3/yr) according to a 2011 report by the Pork Checkoff ...
By Aquacycl
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Using full-scale duckweed ponds as the finish stage for swine waste treatment with a focus on organic matter degradation
The rapid increase in the number of swine has caused pronounced environmental impacts worldwide, especially on water resources. As an aggregate, smallholdings have an important role in South American pork production, contributing to the net diffusion of pollution. Thus, duckweed ponds have been successfully used for swine waste polishing, mainly for nutrient removal. Few studies have been ...
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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights22 World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption. As the ...
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African Swine Fever devastates swine herds across Europe
How to protect yourself from the dangers of African Swine Fever. This year has seen the return of one of the most devastating agricultural viruses for pigs. With over 100 reports of the highly contagious outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV-Asfarviridae) across Europe and Asia recorded during the start of autumn. Although African Swine Fever was believed to have been wiped out ...
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Pork experts indicate growing demand
According to Pig World, at the end of December 2019, “latest figures published by HMRC show a 20% year-on-year increase in UK pork exports in October… [when] pork exports were at a record high of 25,100 tonnes.” Clearly, this is good news for farmers, but even more so is the fact that in addition to the increase in volume exported, the overall value of supplies increased to a ...
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Moving Up the Food Chain
For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the season of the year. During the northern hemisphere winter, for instance, when there was little food to gather, people there depended heavily on hunting for survival. Our long history ...
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Characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing bacteria isolated from sludge of commercial pig farms for producing methyl esters
The objectives of this work were to isolate and characterize the polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) producing bacteria in enriched piggery sludge and make methyl esters from PHA for industrial applications. The strain ECAe24 isolated from piggery sludge with the highest PHA production was selected to produce PHA and then methyl ester by trans-esterification using glucose as substrate under mesophilic ...
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Frank Tobin - Pig Farm - Case Study
IDS had the opportunity to work with a well known pig farm, creating a full housing system which caters for all stages of the growth Process. The Frank Tobin Pig Farm is a well known supplier of quality pigs, more so since the development of this fantastic Pig Farm Housing System. Watch the videos, and view the pictures, below in order to gain an understanding of how we developed an ...
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How Much Water Is Really Used In Food And Beverage Production?
People concerned about their water footprint often make an effort to turn the faucet off quickly, take shorter showers, and cut back on watering the lawn. While these efforts are important, they ignore one of the biggest water-use culprits found in virtually every household: food and beverages. The production of food and beverages is a water-intensive process. According to the Water Footprint ...
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OR-TEC supports fundraiser for Hiram Farm - Case Study
OR-TEC recently supported a fundraiser for Hiram Farm, a working organic farm in Hiram, Ohio that provides meaningful work for adults with autism and other significant developmental ...
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Lighting for Farrowing Shed - Case Study
Each pig production phase has different demands that require different lamps in different lighting intensities. The light should suit the phase in pig production and the type of pig house. Take the farrowing house as an example, offering optimal 200-300lx light intensity on the ground and 8-16 light hours can promote piglets and sow lactation, resulting in higher weaning weights. Also an ...
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Inflate, deflate tire pressure quickly from cab
The in-cab air inflation-deflation system is available for ag implements that need soft tires in the fields and higher pressure for transit. | Ron Lyseng photo No long wait times | The AAID system releases air from the tire into the atmosphere instead of back through the system GUELPH, Ont. — Soft low-pressure implement tires are best in the field. Harder higher pressure tires are ...
By Agribrink
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Why in animal production feed efficiency is so important?
Feed efficiency improvement in farms is a global challenge because: Feed efficiency is important for farmer’s profitability Available surface for agriculture and feed/forage production is decreasing Human population and food demand are increasing in quantity and quality (animal proteins) Feed costs are increasing (direct and inputs) In the future we should produce more goods with ...
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New Swine Farm Case Study - Case Study
Each pig production phase has different demands that require different lamps in different lighting intensities. The light should suit the phase in pig production and the type of pig house. Take the farrowing house as an example, offering optimal 200-300lx light intensity on the ground and 8-16 light hours can promote piglets and sow lactation, resulting in higher weaning weights. Also an ...
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Characterization of selected nutrients and bacteria from anaerobic swine manure lagoons on sow, nursery, and finisher farms in the Mid-South USA
Received for publication October 31, 2008. Swine (Sus scrofa domestica) production in the Mid-South USA comprises sow, nursery, and finisher farms. A 2007 packing plant closure started a regional shift from finisher to sow and nursery farms. Changes in manure stored in lagoons and land-applied as fertilizer were expected but were unknown because nutrient and bacterial levels had not been ...
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Sadia swine manure lagoon treatment case study
The Problem SADIA, a major integrated hog producer located in the Santa Catarina province of Brazil requested permission to conduct a test to determine the effectiveness of Nordevco Associates’ technology to improve conditions in their manure storage lagoon at a facility located in Concordia. Nordevco’s solution was applied by the producer and all testing and analyses were carried out ...
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Sunset Colony Study
“We have had the Silver Bullet AG300 unit now for ten months with great measurable results. This system is currently on our water line, treating the swine gestation, farrowing and nursery. The unit can treat 75,000 gallons of water per day and will be injected into our large water tank to treat our swine gestation, farrowing, nursery, finishers and dairy. What I like about the Silver Bullet ...
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Unifying to Benefit Producers : Jyga Technologies & PigCHAMP Share Data
How does it Work and What does it Look Like in the Farm? Jyga Technologies’ CEO Alain Lefebvre has always seen his products, Gestal, Vision and Robust, as a key to producers’ successes since they are a great tool to help improve herd performance and profitability. Mr. Lefebvre shared with us his vision for the company. ‘’As a pork producer myself, I think that giving the ...
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How much is the annual output of 50000 tons of organic fertilizer production line equipment?
Organic fertilizer production line includes fermentation equipment, granulation equipment, crushing equipment, mixing equipment, screening equipment, cooling equipment, drying equipment, coating equipment, automatic packaging equipment and other processes. There are three common configurations of organic fertilizer production line, high, medium and low. The prices of the three configurations are ...
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How to Compost Pig Manure into Organic Fertiliser
In general, a 200lb pig would produce about 13lb manure per day. Pig manure contains plentiful essential nutrition ingredients like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for plant growth, which can promote healthy growth and increase the yield of grain crop. Even though pig manure is a commendable raw material of organic fertilizer, lots of pig manures carry E.coli, salmonella, parasitic worms and a ...
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