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Cherkizovo Group discusses factors influencing their choice of equipment for their most recent building project. The following article contains excerpts from an interview with Brad Heron, [...]

Producers considering group sow housing should consider an alternative to ESF. Modern agriculture embraces many new technologies — smartphones, wireless climate sensors, GPS crop monitoring, [...]

Retro of existing farrowing rooms adds square footage to accommodate larger litters without reducing the total number of crates. While litter size has steadily increased from 7.5 in the [...]

Preliminary field test reveals similar gas levels in buildings with and without pit ventilation. Pit fans are commonly used on buildings with deep manure storage to reduce the number of gases and [...]

A new control system allows larger fans to be converted to variable speed with improved accuracy and reduced energy consumption. Most fans used for minimum winter ventilation rates tend to be [...]