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…
New pig house including pig equipment for 1,376 animal places
The Meyer-Hanschen family from Twistringen (district of Diepholz in Northern Germany) can trace back the history of their agricultural holding to the year 1349. This is how long it has been family…
200,000 laying hens join the European Union
After the dissolution of former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s only few West Balkan countries have not yet become a member of the European Union (EU). These countries still allow keeping laying hens in…
New house with pig equipment for piglet rearing inaugurated
The agricultural cooperative Uchtdorf based in Uchtdorf (Tangerhütte) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, invested in a new house for piglet rearing. The main reasons: an increase in piglet production and a…
Modern egg production with enriched colony systems
Rubén Martínez García, innovative egg producer from the Spanish municipality of San Lorenzo de la Parilla, owns two poultry farms 150 kilometres south west of Madrid. On one of these farm, Martínez…
Belgium: Visit a modern enriched colony system
The Vanbelle family from Ardooie in Belgium constructed a new poultry house for 65,000 laying hens and invites anyone interested to an Open House on Friday, 25 January 2013. The visitor will see an…
Efficient pig climate control systems for Philippine sow farm
The Northern Philippines experience very hot temperatures and pounding typhoons each year – not ideal conditions for raising pigs. Venvi Agro’s 2,400 sow farm in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte Province,…
New house for piglet rearing
In the course of succession of generations, Ursula and Hubert Lamping from Essen/Oldenburg in Germany recently decided to invest in a new house for pig rearing. The couple has 500 sows and in the long…