- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
What were you able to do to mitigate the ammonia emmissions? I am assuming you have 1000 pig sheds/straw/ galebreaker sidescreens?
Contract Rearing Pigs
- Thread starter Muddy Plox
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All the usual, fans and curtains, but on our last application we had moved from wean to finish to a super nursery system, keeping 3x more headage but only for 5 weeks on farm, which NE were more than happy with
Sounds like a lot of washing?
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
I am interested to learn more - are these additional curtains to the galebreaker screens? Fans? How does that work with a shed that is open sided when the Galebreakers are down? Just fans or some sort of scrubber system?
Thanks
It is, we now have a contractor wash out as turn round time is tight, it’s a lot of extra work tbh, just get them settled and how you want them and they are gone again,
The fans basically draw the hot air from the apex in the roof and sends it higher into the atmosphere, where it’s meant to disperse at a more diluted rate than blowing out of doors and windows
bloody more like job creation and a few more quid down the pan to get pp I reckon! Thou on a still day they would drag more air through buildings, the curtains we have are as good as galebreaker but not as expensive, plus you can diy fit them if you have good skills with tools and tape measure, with a full auto weather stationSuffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
It's interesting that there is a move to separate nursery and finishing sites. The trend for all in all out wean to finish has led to a shortage of grow/finish space.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
I am amazed that the fans would satisfy the planners - still the same total amount of ammonia leaving the shed?The fans basically draw the hot air from the apex in the roof and sends it higher into the atmosphere, where it’s meant to disperse at a more diluted rate than blowing out of doors and windows
Don’t think it was by choice, just not the finishing spaces available, don’t see it lasting for long, transport and stress off moving takes the edge of this system, but it ticks a lot of other boxes like same source and getting piglets started better
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
There wont be any more finishing spaces either if the planners keep making it nigh on impossible put up pig units! The demand for pork will be met, just it will travel half way around the world - but councils/planners wont have the ammonia emissions on their doorstep so its not a problem 
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
There wont be any more finishing spaces either if the planners keep making it nigh on impossible put up pig units! The demand for pork will be met, just it will travel half way around the world - but councils/planners wont have the ammonia emissions on their doorstep so its not a problem
I'm currently looking at free range finishing, more out of necessity than anything else. Of course doesn't need PP.
Maybe if you measure again it might be more than 400M?
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
The attraction for me is the B&B system- I am not aware of any contracts for of that type for outdoor finishing?
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
I won't elaborate further but i've been very badly dropped in it.
Nukemall
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Hope you are on an old airfield with lots of concrete.
midlandslad
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- Location
- Midlands
Are contract rearing rates going to increase of the back of increased build costs? Can’t see many building new units at the moment.
I think with building costs and planning difficulties, they are pinning hopes on converting existing buildings.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
New build costs had got silly before covid. Now they are ridiculous.
doesn’t seem to have stopped people round here. Everyone seems to be doing well with them. Although straw prices must be putting pressure on the job.
I thought folks were loosing money hand over fist with pigs at the moment .