articles about ventilation in Press releases

Hugh Crabtree has been presented with an Award of Merit by the Institution of Agricultural Engineers.

Extra liveweight has raised piggery temperatures, requiring full ventilation capacity.

Safeguard the health and welfare of pigs when alarms are set in controlled-environment buildings.

Famers should take great care to set minimum temperatures correctly when restocking pens after cleaning and disinfection if pigs are not to become chilled during the colder months.

WEDA with their product series Veco.Mate, are offering a new technology for optimising the climate in livestock houses.

Drop-out window panels will automatically open in an emergency when normal ventilation is interfered with, safeguarding the health and welfare of pigs.

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

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.

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.

If you have controlled-environment houses, check that your fail-safe batteries are working.

Farmers shouldn’t panic but need to be more realistic about their piggery ventilation management during the heat-wave conditions that Britain has been experiencing, according to an environmental specialist.

Nutritional approaches, adapting the diet and using feed additives, can help sows cope with heat stress.

A warning to farmers to check minimum ventilation rates in their piggeries, following the prolonged cold spell, has been issued by an environmental specialist.