Farmweld Jumbo Feeders: Important Production Tool

Kim Brenneman

For the past ten years or so, Farmweld’s Jumbo Feeders have been an important production tool in Kim Brenneman’s Elida, OH, pork production system. Brenneman, who owns a 5,000-sow farrow-to-finish operation, utilizes the feeders in about 30 barns, including several contract grower facilities throughout Ohio.

According to Brenneman, the Farmweld Jumbo Feeder is ideal for wean-to-finish because smaller pigs can step into the feeder to access feed, yet the feeder has a “nice big opening” so large pigs can eat without struggling.

Brenneman is especially fond of the Jumbo Feeder’s click-style adjustment feature (click or crank adjusters are options). He says that allows him to give growers verbal instructions for precise feeder adjustment such as, “set it two notches from the top.”

Brenneman is also impressed with the heavy construction of Farmweld’s feeders. “They are well built and do what they are supposed to do,” he says. As a matter of fact, when Brenneman recently remodeled a nursery into a farrowing facility, he removed several Farmweld Nursery Feeders. He says the 7-10-year old feeders look like new.

“We’ve had good luck with these feeders,” says Brenneman.