DES MOINES, Iowa — The World Pork Expo is chock-a-block with Canadian innovators, manufacturers and service providers. Wherever you turn here, you run into a Canuck. In one corner of the huge trade show you find Farm Health Guardian, which is based in Guelph, Ontario and Omaha, Nebraska. (Check out our story and a video […] Read more
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Broken hog feed systems need to be fixed
It’s hard to fix a problem that people don’t realize, or admit, is happening. That’s something the developers of a feed pipe monitoring system realized when they examined data from hog barns they worked with. Hog feeder barns were having many feed supply breakdowns and nobody realized how much production was probably being thrown away. […] Read more
Firm simplifies system monitoring to reduce down time
Successful technology often arises from figuring out how to simplify something that’s exceedingly complex. That’s what Casey Forsyth and his team at FeedFlo think they’ve managed to do with their feed pipe monitoring system. Their model is working in scores of barns in the U.S. hog belt, where it accurately measures whether feed is flowing […] Read more
