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August 2016

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sow housing, warned others considering the group housing

move to watch their costs.

“

It’s like any other business,” Ahrens said. “You take your

lumps, become efficient, watch your expenses and that’s the

way we do it.”

electronic feeding systems

he installation of electronic feeding systems as part of the

group housing change seems of particular interest to growers.

Since 2014, the range of available electronic feeding equip-

ment has expanded and now includes two Canadian manufac-

turers, both keying in on the sow housing shift. In each of the

past two years, Jyga Technologies in Quebec and CANARM

Ltd. in Brockville have introduced new sow housing and feed-

ing products at hog industry trade shows.

n 2014, CANARM recruited former Ontario Pork chair

Curtiss Littlejohn to head its swine products division with

manufacturing facilities at Arthur, Ont. Littlejohn has over-

seen the introduction of CANARM’s SowChoice products

designed and built in Arthur to employ PigCHAMP-brand,

management software. His marketing effort emphasizes

potential for precision feeding of sows to achieve improved

efficiencies and to meet individual needs. (PigCHAMP Inc. is

a member of the

Farms.com

group of companies.)

yga Technologies in St. Lambert-de-Lauzon markets the

Gestal XM computerized system for sow groups with radio

frequency, ID readers mounted on stall-type feeding stations.

The system builds on basic “freedom stall” concepts popular-

ized by manufacturers such as Vissing Agro of Denmark but

adds installation and maintenance cost advantages of wireless

communications, an independent agent for Jyga in Ontario,

Blair Gordon, said in an interview.

ntario dealers also represent the world of hog equipment.

Fancom BV and Nadap N.V. of Holland, WEDA Dammann

& Westerkamp GmbH and Big Dutchman AG of Germany,

MPS Agri Ltd. of the U.K., Kansas-based Osborne Industries

Inc. and Illinois-based, AP (Automated Production Systems, a

brand of AGCO Corporation), all market the equipment they

manufacture for group sow housing set ups through Ontario

dealers.

esigner Frank Hogervorst of Avonbank Ag Solutions in

Granton, Ont. works with PigTek Pig Equipment Group and

Fancom, both owned by Indiana-based CTB Inc. Hogervorst

describes “very keen interest” among his clientele.

“

I’ve got a couple of new, large barns that are happening

this year and already a couple for next year, and those will all

be loose housing,” Hogervorst said by phone from Des Moines

where he was demonstrating equipment during World Pork

Expo. However, he also predicted most jobs will involve reno-

vation and/or electronic feeding.

“

It’s very much comparable to robotics in milking cows,”

he said. “They went through their learning curve but the sta-

tions have been operating in Europe continuously now for 20

years; so we’re really bringing European technology to Ontario

and we’re using everything they’ve learned.”