Better Pork October 2017
Articles in the October 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Pork Barns See Revised Regulations, PRRS 2.0: A Strain on Producers, Research to Create a Valuable Tool Barn and ventilation systems need to be verified by an engineer due...
Better Pork June 2017
Articles in the June 2017 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Using Pigs to Advance Human Health, Send a Tasty Video Message, Lowering the Spread of Disease, Enrichment: Novelty or Necessity?, Pork Industry Tickled Pink by Genomics Smithfield Bioscience was...
Better Pork December 2016
Articles in the December 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Banff Pork Seminar Moves Mountains to Drive Attendance, Understanding PEDV Detection Methods, Holiday Gifts to Make You Squeal With Joy, The Computerized Hog Barn, Optimizing Sow Output with Longer...
Better Pork August 2016
Articles in the August 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Social (Ag)Media, Bacon Critic Wanted, New Tech to Ensure Manure Pit Safety, The Loose Housing Revolution Many producers are on social media. Accounts about agriculture are listed. A breakfast...
Better Pork June 2016
Articles in the June 2016 Better Pork Include: Beyond the Barn: Stratford Hope Bacon and Ale will Lure Shakespeare Buffs, PRRS Resistant Hog a ‘Potential Game Changer”, Turning Manure Mountains into Gold, Spike in Barn Fires Causes Rising Public Concern...
Ventilation System Requirements for Conversion to Group Sow Housing
The animal environment and energy costs all are impacted by ventilation. When converting to a group-housed sow barn, retaining the existing ventilation system leads to over-ventilation in winter as they are designed for a higher animal density. This can chill...
Reducing Energy Use in Group Sow Housing Systems
Sows in groups may have a lower critical temperature that is lower than sows housed in individual stalls as they can use thermoregulatory behaviour. If productivity does not changes, reducing energy costs for ventilation and heating may be an option....
Treating Swine and Municipal Wastewater with Microbial Fuel Cell Technology
Land application of livestock wastewater is creating challenges for producers due to costs and environmental impacts. Finding alternatives is of great interest in order to have safe disposal with reduced costs. Wastewater contains nitrogenous and organic compounds that can be...
Development of an Air Filtration System for Swine Transport Vehicles to Protect Against Airborne Diseases During Transport
Transporting breeding stock across Canada is a daily occurrence with farms each having biosecurity procedures to reduce potential disease outbreaks. Infecting breeding stock during transport is a risk, especially through pig dense areas. Measures are needed to protect breeding stock...
Benchmarking and Standardization of Swine Production Systems
Wide variations in building design, barn equipment, construction, management and other operational systems contribute to added costs and inefficiencies in hog barns. These variabilities make it difficult to develop improvement measures and they cannot be applied from barn to barn...
Impact of Repeated Applications of Liquid Swine Manure and Biogas Production By-Products on Soils and Crops
Different methods of swine manure use are of interest Crop response to swine manure biodigestate produced by biogas production compared to the conventional liquid swine manure and urea fertilizer was looked at. Applying long and short-term fresh and processed liquid...
Evaluation of Heat Exchanger, Ground Source Heat Pump, and Conventional Heating Systems
A production cost that can be further reduced is energy cost. This can be done by reducing overall energy consumption or using energy more efficiently. Space heating is an area of interest for energy reduction. The performance of a heat...
