GLOBALPIG JAUME ALÒS:“SF3D MAKES IT MUCH EASIER FOR ANIMALS TO ADAPT” Alòs completed last year the last expansion of his farm with a new fattening area with a capacity for 1,000 pigs. Willing to continue with the family tradition, Jaume Alòs decided to take the reins of the farm that his grandfather built more than 70 years ago in the municipality of Almenar. Although they only had some sows and cows in the beginning, with the incorporation of their father to the business, the farm specialised in pig production and, little by little, increased its capacity. Years later, Jaume joined the team, opted for professionalisation and innovation, and introduced systems capable of optimising the operation of the facilities to be more competitive within the sector. In 2020, Jaume completed the last expansion of the farm with a new fattening shed with a capacity for 1,000 pigs. In the new room, it has the SF3D feeder from Rotecna and the polypropylene separator panels. 10
Jaume Alòs with the SF3D feeder. Photo: Rotecna.
Why did you decide to become a farmer? For me, livestock farming is a family tradition that my grandfather started, and my father followed along with my mother. Seeing how they worked, I got that passion that they had for animals. At 19, I began to give myself entirely to working on our farm, first helping my father, who was in charge of the management, until the moment of his retirement, when I stepped forward and took the reins of the business. Then I thought it was necessary to make some changes to be more competitive, and in 2013 we made the first expansion in
the sow’s nucleus and hired staff outside the family. In 2020 we carried out a new addition in fattening and reached 1,600 pigs. How is the farm distributed? Our farm consists of a centre where the sows are (quarantine, gestation and maternity warehouses), weaning and a small part of the fattening. Then, we have three more fattening cores, one of our properties with a capacity for 1,600 pigs, another integrated one with 1,500 animals, and another on a rental basis with 460 fattening and weaning places. In the last warehouse we built,
