Various ventilation techniques are used to raise the air quality in pig barns to a desired level. Many of these techniques use a specific type of fan to facilitate the required air movement. A frequently used fan in pig barns is the High Pressure Fan. In this article, we will tell you more about High Pressure Fans and why these fans are often used in pig barns. Funda...
I was not only fascinated by the video itself, but also by the fact that it represents a well-reasoned response to consumer trends for farm products on the part of its marketer.Today’s consumers and especially many young consumers have a desire to know more about the products they buy, including food products. Driven by an increased awareness of and empathy toward the ca...
For medium and big farms, the G-Max heater is the perfect solution to guarantee the right temperature. G-Max is a direct fired gas air heater, it works with both methane and LPG and its structure in Magnelis® guarantees great resistance to corrosion, and performances 10 times higher than galvanised steel. The air heater G-Max can meet every installation need: can be mo...
This mesh is differentiated by the X shape of its knot, which besides being discreet is extra strong. The XK MRT® is used for standard livestock fencing (sheep, goats, cows, etc.); for deer farms and game estates with wild animals (deer, wild boar, etc.). This mesh is suitable for the delimitation of roads, preventing the passage of animals such as badgers; for agricul...
The G-Series gas heaters use low pressure methane or LPG gas to heat the environment, ensuring clean combustion and 100% efficiency. The machine body is made in stainless steel, to provide durability in time and making it suitable for any kind of environment. It is available in different models, ranging from 25kW to 90kW of thermal power. The G-Series gas heater is parti...
G-max represents the ideal solution to heat large livestock facilities. It is a hot air generator running on methane or LPG gas, it uses low pressure gas, for maximum efficiency, clean combustion, safety and durability through time. Why choose G-Max: 1) gas pipes are placed outside the warehouse, reducing the hazard of dangerous leakings 2) G-Max is installed outside...
Poultry consumption in Southeast Asia is on the rise. In Vietnam, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, the number of poultry units being eaten has outperformed global growth in the last five years
All farmers know that during lambing season, dealing with fallen stock can be a costly distraction. Having an on-site incinerator can help you dispose of your fallen stock quickly and safely and save you money on collection fees.
Specifically, the technology can be incorporated into the Mycogen and Dairyland Seed brands in the U.S. and the Brevant seed brand in Canada. The technology is part of an expanded license for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend technology for soybeans just finalized between Monsanto Company and Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont. Additional terms of the lice...
More than 150 people came to see the 4-inch plastic pipe go in the ground. Stuchal Custom Agriculture Service was performing the demonstration on a 50-acre field. Cory Stuchal farms 2,000 acres in Mercer, Butler and Venango counties, Pennsylvania. About 14 years ago, he bought his own tiling equipment when several of his own fields need tiling. From there, he start...
Producers in many counties reported going into the winter of 2017-18 short to very short on available surface water, according to surveys North Dakota State University Extension agents conducted. “Providing adequate water to livestock is critical for animal health and production,” says Miranda Meehan, NDSU Extension livestock environmental stewardship specialist. “Goo...
Global tea consumption and production are projected to keep rising over the next decade, driven by robust demand in developing and emerging countries. This will create new rural income opportunities and improve food security in tea-producing countries, according to a new report released today. Tea consumption has grown particularly rapidly in China, India and other em...
On the eve of the first World Bee Day, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has urged countries and individuals to do more to protect bees and other pollinators or risk a sharp drop in food diversity. Bees are under great threat from the combined effects of climate change, intensive agriculture, pesticides, biodiversity loss and pollution. In Slovenia f...
The demand for quality Texas sheep wool is high, which means producing a fleece is no longer a break-even enterprise for producers, said Dr. Reid Redden, AgriLife Extension state sheep and goat specialist, San Angelo. “It used to be that wool prices would barely cover the shearing cost, but now producers are seeing profits range from $25 to $50 per fleece,” Redden said...
With the ability to charge any of the DeWalt 40V MAX* batteries from a vehicle’s 12V power outlet or by tapping directly into the mower battery, the charger enables batteries to be conveniently recharged throughout the day. The 40V MAX* Mower/Vehicle Charger includes an automatic shut-off which prevents excessive discharge of vehicle’s or mower’s battery. In addition, th...
VILLARTA DE SAN JUAN - SPAIN: Being involved in some of the biggest storage projects around the world requires state-of-the-art, fully-automated production capacities and total coordination between engineering teams. That is the rationale behind the push of Symaga, leader of the largest project in Egypt, for the consolidation of a new Project Department. To take ...
Reclaimed water systems are becoming more common, and they generally contain high concentrations of chlorine and other contaminants that expedite the degradation of irrigation valves. Exposure to these chemicals lessens the valves’ effectiveness and shortens their overall lives in the field. “With the ICV-R, contractors and landscape designers have a powerful tool built...
Hungarian farmer and veterinarian Dr. Gabor Salyi is one of the many European innovators that see how a clever precision livestock farming (PLF) tool can help them address today's challenges. He has been using a PLF tool developed by a Hungarian company, that gives continuous real-time insight into dairy and beef herds' rumen conditions by checking pH and temperature val...
Eight-five percent of these deaths occur in the first four-to-six days of piglets’ lives. This costs the average hog farm over $700k a year and the industry as a whole $8.9 billion a year. SwineTech is on a mission to substantially reduce this number, if not eliminate it, with a wearable device for a mother pig — sow — that sends an impulse to her when she is crushing...
The farmers that raise our chicken and our pork are in a tough business. They often invest millions of dollars and go into debt just to have the chance to land a contract with a big meat company. But those agreements don’t always work out. The big box retailer, Costco, is building a new chicken processing plant in Fremont, Nebraska. The plant will slaughter 2 million...
At the epicenter is the term “fodder,” and, while we’ll shortly review some of the advancements that are shaping the scene, let’s look at the actual term. Notably, the concept of fodder dates back to the ancient Egyptians, who found ways of integrating various dietary enhancers with the grass their animals ate. Today, the broad definition of fodder comprises any feed ...
ZooMill has published two amazing 3D videos showing how the Zoom 1 (feed mill working at 1 ton/h) and Zoom 4 (feed mill working at 4 ton/h) work. Check them out on the VIDEO section of our website!
ZooMill ha just finished installing a brand new feed mill plant in Kuwait. It's an installation working at 8 t/h, composed of one flat bottomed silo plus 4 farm silos for the raw materials and two farm silos for the finished product. It includes a premix system. The plant is fully automatic.
The San Bernardino Sun reports that Chino resident George Gonzales and fellow goat owner Rance Thrall say they're getting more requests for work than they can handle this year. Gonzales' "Goat 'Er Done" grazing service uses dogs to protect the goats while the animals eat. Gonzales says heavy rain since October has made plants grow like crazy, increasing the risk of fi...
The lean black goats owned by the tribal people of Attapadi, in India's Western Ghats, are known for their resilience. Not only are they resistant to most of the diseases that sicken other goats, they have a unique ability to prosper in southern India's increasingly severe heat, researchers say. "Black goats can withstand even scorching heat without much care and a...
The process of domestication has largely eliminated the seasonal breeding cycle in many types of livestock, but most goats and sheep are still attuned to this ancient rhythm. The shorter days at the end of summer triggers hormonal changes in goats and sheep, whose estrous cycle typically occurs from September through December, with October and November being the prime br...
The FSIS confirmed the eligibility of Namibia to export meat products to the US, according to a statement issued by the US Embassy in Windhoek. The statement said that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has added Namibia to the list of countries eligible to export beef to the United States. The decision will allow Namibia to export boneless (not ground) ...
But social tension can be reduced by properly designing the feeding areas. Researchers from the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Welfare at Vetmeduni Vienna, in cooperation with the Institute of Organic Farming at the Thünen Institute, have shown that goats experience less stress during feeding when partitions are placed between the individual feeding places. The study ...
This announcement followed concerns raised by the poultry industry, including the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), over cheap poultry product imports from the European Union, Brazil and the United States which is flooding the South African markets. The DTI said the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) had been working with the domestic industry ...
Pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Campylobacter and Escherichia coli are among the major pathogens causing foodborne illness worldwide. On the poultry farm, conventional approaches like increased bio-security, better hygiene, changes to management and husbandry and improved feed microbial security can help control pathogens. Going forward, however, major improvemen...
Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia found that Anopheles arabiensis, one of the predominant species transmitting malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, avoids chickens when looking for hosts to feed on. Published in the Malaria Journal, the study concluded that, unlike humans, chickens are a non-host species and th...
The Kibaha Education Centre, west of Dar es Salaam, was founded as part of an international aid project in 1963 and was formerly the site of Tanzania’s leading poultry operation. Kibaha was a major local employer, supplying chicks to local families, farmers and businesses and producing 1.5mn day-old chicks per year. The centre was forced to close five years ago followin...
Growing populations and incomes continue to drive livestock demand, which could grow as high as 50 percent in certain cities, particularly in Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salaam and Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa. However, this has led to a shortage of animal feed in the region. Ethiopia and Kenya have aggressively sought to grow their livestock farming in rural areas to avoid the...
The non-for-profit FoodTank, have recently released a list of 35 species which are about to become extinct. In addition to this, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), close to 17 per cent of the world’s livestock breeds face extinction. Many of these livestock breeds are indigenous, adapted to local conditions with long agricultural and pastoral t...
According to Boehringer-Ingelheim’s Dr. Scott King, this viral infection can be controlled best, by building your herd health program with prevention as its foundation. Dr. King spoke with Radio Oklahoma Network Intern Kalee Horn about BVD and how to avoid it. “BVD can infect a cow during pregnancy and then that offspring can have birth defects and then can also b...
According to the National Pork Board, an important takeaway from the study is that the U.S. pork supply is safe. The resistant gene identified in the study was not found in a market hog, and there was no threat to food safety. As experts in swine production, the Pork Checkoff is eager to analyze the initial findings, alongside its authors, and better understand result...
