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HOG GAZETTE PROVEN AND TESTED PRODUCTS THAT ARE A SMALL INVESTMENT BUT PROVE TO HAVE A BIG RETURN ON INVESTMENT
DL3127 INLET WITH ECOTIGHT SHUTTER IN HOG BARN
THE EVOLUTION OF HOG BARNS IS PROGRESSING - YOUR - INDEX EQUIPMENT SHOULD TOO Technology: always evolving, being modified, and improving over time. Swine barns follow this exact model. Think back to barns built almost 30 years ago. The production practices, barn construction, ventilation practices, and equipment to service the animals have all evolved drastically. The driving factor to these changes is usually to gain production efficiencies, ventilation efficiencies, and provide an overall heathier environment for the production animals that reside in these barns.
After many years, positive pressure ventilation is returning to the swine industry. In the last 10-15 years there were two main ventilation methods that were used in barns: natural ventilation, mechanical (negative pressure) ventilation, and hybrid ventilation (a combination of the two methods). Positive pressure ventilation isn't new to Double L. It was used in Continued on page 2
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT . . . . . . . 1 - 3 NURSERY FLOORING . . . . . . . . . 4 - 8
PERMABEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 FARROWING FLOORING . . . . 10 - 11 CAST IRON FLOORING . . . . 12 - 13 PLASTIC FLOORING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 PIG MAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 - 15 SHUTTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 - 17 ATTIC INLETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 - 22 DUCTWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 WALL INLETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 - 25 SWINE ACCESSORIES . . . . . 26 - 27
H IG H QUA LI T Y PR OD U CT S & S E RV I CE S S I NCE 1973
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