Advice for sampling and cleanout for lagoons and anaerobic digesters and safety considerations.
What is sludge?
Sludge is the residue of biological manure treatment that accumulates...
As temperatures warm up this spring, AP reminds swine producers about important steps for maintaining a healthy barn environment to protect pig health and...
Clare and Drew Schilling are a brother-sister team from Illinois that manage their family’s breed-to-wean hog operation.
They recently added the EDGE 2 controller to...
Heat mats are crucial for piglets. Heat mats help maintain piglet health, produce faster growth rates, reduce stress, improve feed efficiency, and increase survival...
Amy M. Schmidt
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Food Science and Engineering Unit
Commercial Agriculture Program
Albert J. Heber
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department
Purdue University
The odors and gases produced...
Researchers from Purdue University and the USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit have unveiled promising results from a study on lactating sows, revealing that electronically...
Quick facts
Growth rate of pigs housed in hoop barns is similar to pigs housed in confinement barns.
Pigs in hoop barns eat more...
Performing preseason maintenance on summer fans will maximize their performance during hot weather. Here is a simple maintenance checklist:
1) Fan Belts
Replacing fan belts every...
Ventilation air-to-air heat exchangers are used in swine housing facilities to reduce supplemental heating cost and to preheat incoming fresh air. There is potential...
Solar Installations on US Farms. Courtesy of Bloomberg.
Bloomberg’s Ilena Peng, Michael Hirtzer, and Will Wade reported Thursday that “farmers are increasingly embracing solar as...