This Canadian hog farmer needed a secure waste management solution for his new facility because he planned to finish 1500 pigs in this location. A major concern for this farmer was the deadly gases that are associated with agitating hog manure. He needed a solution to minimise these harmful gases and also eliminate tractor agitation.
The Service and Solution
Dairypower’s approved dealer Grand River Robotics had the answer, installing a Smart Manure Aeration System on the hog farm based in Wellesley, Ontario in Canada. This system was custom designed for this farmer’s new hog barn and would bring a multitude of benefits.
By choosing Dairypower, he opted for the smarter, safer solution when it came to manure management in his new facility.
The Smart Manure Aeration System was installed into a tank with the dimensions 60’ x 228’, with slats on top, allowing for manure and urine to easily fall into the pipework-fitted tank below.
The tank spans 70 metres long with one Smart Manure Aeration System pump unit supplying air via three Dairypower patented rotary valves. These are feeding air to outlets fixed to the base of the tank. Would you believe, there are an impressive 650 outlet valves in this tank? These outlet valves are creating air bubbles along the base of the tank – which will sequentially aerate the manure by the physical action of the rising bubbles, this manure technology is outstanding!
The Smart Manure Aeration System was installed into a naturally ventilated hog barn, with 9’ ceiling height at the sides and 10’ in the middle. Air quality was a major factor taken into consideration when building this hog barn, as when housing confined livestock, ventilation is of utmost importance.
Manure management on this farm is now extremely simple due to the combination of slats and our Smart Manure Aeration System. The manure is kept in a homogeneous, pumpable state, 365 days a year with this cost-effective and environmentally friendly system.
Air quality was a major factor taken into consideration when building this hog barn, as when housing confined livestock, ventilation is of utmost importance. The Smart Manure Aeration System will improve air quality in this barn, and also reduce ammonia and methane emissions. This will provide optimum living conditions for his pigs.
Tractor agitation is now entirely eliminated for this Canadian hog farmer, and there is no longer a concern over the build-up of dangerous gases and the release of deadly concentrations of hydrogen sulphide and methane when agitating the manure!
The Smart Manure Aeration System will improve air quality in this barn, and also reduce ammonia and methane emissions. This will provide optimum living conditions for his pigs.
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