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After an F4 tornado leveled Shane Christensen’s two year old, 2,400-head, wean-to-finish barn last summer, he knew right away what he wanted to do in the aftermath. “The first thing on my mind was getting everything organized to rebuild and keep going,” says Christensen, who raises pigs for the Lukes Brothers operation near Alden, MN.
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Tracy Lorenzen operates a Yorkshire breeding stock business for the show pig market with his father, Dave, and brother, Tony, in Chrisman, IL. The family exhibits at two or three national livestock shows each year to create interest in their herd. Prize winners bring customers. “You have to sell what people want,” says Tracy.
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Superior quality and unmatched customer service earned Farmweld repeat business when the Koehl family of Hancock, MN, selected equipment for a new 3,500-head sow unit. The unit features Farmweld’s new 24” x 24” (610 mm x 610 mm) plastic panel which allowed the Koehls the flexibility to build 5’6” (1.676M) wide farrowing platforms with 21” (533.40mm) creep areas.
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Like many agricultural retailers, Ricketts Farm Service sells feed, seed, fertilizer and crop protection products and performs custom application services. In addition to agronomy services, the north central Missouri company also maintains a contract swine enterprise.
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Benedikt Baer was under pressure when an older finishing complex near Gwinner, ND, “fell into his lap” to purchase during late summer 2008. As a contract producer, Benedikt receives batches of 16# (7.62 kg) weanlings every four or five weeks. He had a nursery full of pigs back home at Lake Park, MN, and he needed a new facility for their grow-finish phase.
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Ezra Baer was concerned about per-pig feeder space when he approached Kevin Schnarre in the Farmweld booth at the 2007 Minnesota Pork Congress. Ezra was planning to build a new, 1,100-head nursery with an adjoining 2,300-head finishing unit. Ezra is a contract nursery-finish producer and receives weanling pigs every nine weeks.
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Durability was a main goal when this Silver Lake, IN, contract nursery was built eleven years ago. The original equipment is still going strong and current owner Matt Kneller expects the flooring, feeders and other equipment to last for years to come.
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Farmweld helped Iowa producers redesign their partially-slatted farrowing barn into a modern nursery and their former gestation facility into a finishing facitity. The Farmweld Flooring System was a competitively priced and high quality option for the new nursery floor and Farmweld feeders were installed in both facilities. Read more about some of the tricky design challenges that had to be overcome in both facilities.
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Farmweld’s innovative new SuperClick™ feeder ensures precise, accurate adjustment for reduced feed waste.  Mark Steidinger shares how the new feeder is working at his family’s Illinois production facilities.
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