Pork producers discuss their transition to group housing of sows

Pork producers discuss their transition to group housing of sows

At World Pork Expo on Wednesday, we stopped by the Nedap Livestock Management booth to visit with a couple of pork producers who own and/or manage facilities that have transitioned from gestation stalls to group gestation pens.

 

Thomas Livestock Company

Tim Friedel is the production manager at Thomas Livestock Co. of Broken Bow, Nebraska. Less than 10 years after building a barn, the team at Thomas Livestock pulled the gestation stalls and built group pens with automated sow feeding and management.

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