Press releases - Facilities and equipment

A groundbreaking commercial trial in lighting and sensor technology to improve pig performance and enhance animal welfare.

CPF is geared towards renewable energy consumption through biogas production at all pig farms in Thailand to save communities and for sustainable energy security.

Many pig farming operations know the challenge: due to increasing piglet numbers, the sow milk alone is insufficient for optimally feeding the piglets. Precisely for this application, the Nutrix piglet feeding system by Lower Saxon farming house supplier WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp has proven itself internationally over the past five years.

A new, cost-saving digital weight display is now available for Osborne’s ACCU-ARM portable scales for small animals.

Efficient bioenergy generation from animal waste.

The all new Feed Flow Control for the company’s line of Big Wheel^® Pig Feeders features an easy-to-read, numbered positioning system that is simple to adjust and set.

Biogas pioneer WELTEC BIOPOWER plays a key role in the success story of energy conversion.

The two companies are partnering to bring Pig Scale, an automatic, camera-based pig scale to the global market.

A Finn farmer shares his strategy for keeping long-tailed pigs. Just 2% of his animals arrive at the slaughterhouse with damaged tails. It's possible!

Producers have mixed opinions on Dicam 2's remote temperature control app. Some worry farmers will make changes without checking on animals in person.

Gain productivity, help lower costs, and improve finishing pig performance.

ILDEX Vietnam 2020 show preview, Bangkok – Ho Chi Minh City

Hog Slat’s Infinity Fans utilize advanced motor technology to lower energy costs, improve speed control, and reduce maintenance.

The Be.Well concept stands for products which focus on the well-being and health of the pigs and facilitate economic and safe working at the same time.

Hugh Crabtree has been appointed to the board of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) and has attended his first executive meeting.

Hog Slat announces a new store location in Laurinburg, North Carolina to serve swine and poultry producers.

Ron Smith joins livestock equipment sales staff promoting Osborne’s swine management equipment in the eastern United States and Canada.

After the long, hot summer, pig farmers are being urged to check their piggery ventilation systems very carefully – and get expert help if necessary – if problems are to be avoided as the weather cools down.

Early September we successfully installed our first test of the system Pig Scale at Riverbend Pork Group in Australia.

Olivia Hartshorn, from Staffordshire, has won the 2019 Nick Bird Award, at Harper Adams University for her dissertation on ventilation design in pig finisher houses and its impact on animal performance.