Farmscape for December 2, 2022
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The Strategic Advisor Agriculture with Workplace Safety and Prevention Services says the key to maintaining a safe agricultural work place is to have a plan and to make sure everyone...
Andy Altenburg offers practical advice on evaluating slats in an existing facility.
Over the last 27 years, Altenburg Construction has built a reputation as the Midwest's slat replacement professionals. We caught up with the owner, Andy Altenburg, to discuss what...
Rising fuel costs have made it even more important to seal and insulate our livestock buildings. There are several steps producers can take to reduce the energy used to operate curtain-sided facilities.
(Infrared photo illustrating heat loss from a...
IHT is pleased to announce that Boyd Rice will be joining our organization in the
position of US Technical Sales Representative. Boyd comes to us with over 30 years of
experience in swine production, technical equipment sales / service and a...
Actuated inlets reduce the labor needed to manage air flows during rapidly changing temperatures.
Changing weather makes ventilation management more complex. The more the temperature swings, the more the fans switch off and on, varying the airflow needed.
When the...
Overheating is the leading cause of electric motor failure.
In Part 1, we discussed the basics of how a motor operates and what happens inside a motor when it burns out. Frequently just replacing the motor does not alleviate the...
With the approach of cold weather, AP senior technician Mark Oberreuter cites three common ventilation mistakes for swine producers to avoid in order to maintain an ideal barn environment during winter months.
Wasting heat — Oberreuter says in trying to...
What happens when an electric motor burns out?
We typically refer to an electrical motor that has quit working as being burned out. Is that what really happens? Do the insides of a motor burn up, and is that why...
Quick facts
Help ensure sure your pigs and workers have a good environment throughout winter without high fossil fuel costs.
Make sure the barn is "tight" enough to maintain adequate static pressure during outside temperatures less than 0 degrees F...
While the pandemic created many challenges for our business (like it did for the rest of our pig farming industry and the world for that matter), it didn’t diminish our drive to learn as much as possible about wet-dry...