GLOBALPIG A. INIESTA: “THE SILOTRONIC ALLOWS YOU TO FINE-TUNE WHAT FEED NEEDS YOU MAY HAVE PER DAY AND NOT HAVE A SURPLUS” He has had a total of 39 Silotronic installed in four different breeding, transition and fattening farms, located in Utiel (Valencia).
Aitor Iniesta at the breeding farm in Utiel (Valencia). Photo: Rotecna.
Offspring of a family of farmers, in 2011, Aitor Iniesta decided to join Expoinor, the family business, and wager on expanding the endeavour. Thus, in addition to giving continuity to the fattening farms, he built a breeding farm with 1,000 sows, which in 2017 expanded to the 3,000 sows it currently has. After years of relying on Rotecna and its products, in 2022 he has installed a total of 39 Silotronics, a real-time silo level control system, to optimise the feed and fuel consumption of all its farms and improve the logistics of raw material orders with the feed mill and the integrator. Why did you decide to devote yourself to livestock? My grandparents and parents have always been committed to pig breeding and agriculture, so I continued with the tradition. Until I joined the family business, they had always been devoted to fattening and, it was when I joined, in 2011, that we started with sows. First with 1,000 breeding 10
sows and, in 2017, we expanded to 3,000 sows that are the ones we currently have. We also have 13,500 spots for transitional piglets from 6 to 20 kilos and 9,000 fattening spots. You have recently installed Rotecna’s Silotronic real-time silo level control system on your farms. Why did you decide to install this system? Mainly to control the stock of the raw materials we have on farms, not only feed but also fuels. It is a way to calculate the consumption that we have within each farm daily, supervise possible excesses of consumption that we may have in some warehouses, optimise the management of feed orders with the factory and the integrator, and even the fuel orders for the farms. How many Silotronics do you have installed? In total, we have 39 Silotronics installed on four different farms; 19 on the breeding farm, 7 on the transition farm, 7 on one of the bait farms and 6 more on the second bait farm.
