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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
Publication Date: January 1, 1982
Reference: Reeder, R. 1982. An Affordable Solar System For Swine. Ohio Swine Research and Industry Report of Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio. Pp. 50-54
Country: USA
Summary:
A solar system built into a 500 pig nursery building in Hancock county offers promise as a low cost system which can cut the cost of heating swine buildings. For an investment of $4.50 per square foot of solar colector, the farmer is saving about one gallon of LP gas per square foot annually.
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