New feed conveying system has four to five times longer service life
Flexible, pliable, very quiet to operate and, most importantly, extremely resistant to wear and tear. The new Big Dutchman FlexVey PUR conveying system is a true innovation and ensures a constant,…
Big Dutchman Asia-Pacific Sales & Agents’ Meeting
This year’s Big Dutchman Asia-Pacific Sales & Agents’ Meeting was held on the island of Phuket, Thailand from March 30 to April 2. A total of 80 participants travelled from all over Asia-Pacific to…
Natura Step featuring the Hollywood Hens visits the White House
The Big Dutchman Natura Step aviary and the company’s Hollywood Hens have just returned home to Holland, MI, after a visit to the White House. They had been invited to attend the 136th Easter Egg…
Sow management: Bongdong trumpets stellar production
The past decade has seen changes in the South Korean pig industry landscape. From more than 12,000 pig farms in 2005, the number declined to 6,000 in 2012. Despite this, total pig inventory in the…
Latest pig equipment installed at breeding enterprise
In the Bolshesoldatsky district, Kursk Oblast, Russia, a modern pig breeding farm has recently been launched, according to the renowned Pig Progress magazine. The modern operation has a production…
Big Dutchman takes over Zucami
The Big Dutchman group based in Vechta-Calveslage is taking over the Spanish poultry equipment supplier Zucami. The company with its headquarters in Beriáin, near Pamplona, recently became insolvent.…
Massive investment in Scottish barn egg production
A desire to add value to grain and get out of pigs has led to a major move into egg production, including barn eggs, at one Scottish farming business. The company initially invested in colony…
Brand new: Efficiently filtering PRRS viruses – already out of the incoming air
The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) confronts pig producers throughout the world with big problems: The pandemic disease severely affects the health of their animals. To avoid…
Indiana, USA: Adding barn egg production to meet customers’ needs
Until approximately five years ago, all of Midwest Poultry Services’ hens were housed in conventional cages. Today, this has changed fundamentally: For instance at their layer farm in Northeastern…
Big Dutchman on record course with modern pig feeding systems
Clean and robust, practical and precise: These are convincing characteristics of modern pig feeders for finishing houses. More and more pig producers therefore decide on Big Dutchman (BD) automatic…