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A Bayesian network model for assessing natural estrogen fate and transport in a swine waste lagoon
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 ...
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Ag Leader Dealer Leads with Resiliency After Loss
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, ...
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Success on the Farm Starts in the Cloud
AgCompass has been a trusted technology partner to farms of all sizes for nearly 15 years. Sharing a background in agriculture and with Midwestern values, our experienced IT Staff provides one-on-one technology support. We help you keep up with technology by backing up your software on a daily basis and by installing software updates for you. The only requirements for the customer are an ...
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Is Technology Part of Pig Farming
Are you familiar with the acronym IoT? It means the Internet of Things and talks about the ways that technology has spilled over into our homes. We have “smart” televisions, phones and even smart lightbulbs. As we add more and more of these devices into our homes, they are actually “learning.” This is called machine learning as well as AI (artificial intelligence), and it ...
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Steps for Best Hog and Poultry Operations
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 ...
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Producer’s Profile: Henry Creek Farm
Owners: Doug, Kim & Olin Claassen Potwin, Kansas, USA Farm’s Features: 1,400 sows farm, 4 week batch farrowing 8,000 finishings places, 220 farrowing places and 15 open-housing gestation pens Diversified production including 600 to 700 feeder cattle, 3000 acres in croplands and 800 acres in pasture. They have their own feed mill. They utilize their own corn and soybeans to ...
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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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The removal & elimination of phosphate & nitrates in swine waste lagoons
DO2E Waste Water Treatment LLC & Dr. J H Wakefield have combined their vast years of knowledge and experience in municipal and industrial waste water treatment and processing to help solve the phosphate and nitrate problem in animal waste disposal for commercial farming operations. With over 50 years of combine knowledge and experience in wastewater treatment, processing and monitoring, Mr. ...
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