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dependently on other sow farms and finishing oper
ations with mixed results. Some farmers have
noticed a reduction of odors with the bacteria alone
however, according to Frame, “We get a bigger
bang for our buck when we do it (addition of bac
teria) in conjunction with this aeration system.”
“Our focus of why we are really doing this,” said
Jennifer Reed, nutrient compliance director for
Country View Family Farms, “is we wanted to ad
dress the community’s concerns of odor from the la
goons and odor from land application. That’s where
we have been getting the majority of complaints.
That’s why we chose this system, because it targets
those issues.”
This system has also been replicated at the Sulli
van Township pig farm in Tioga County, to address
odor concerns at that facility. The Sullivan farm is
almost identical in size and scale to the Pine Hill fa
cility.
The group of decision makers settled on this type
of aeration system after reviewing many other
methods.
“When you have a poly lined lagoon, you’ve got
to be careful because of your liner. There is another
type of aeration that is a floating unit where it’s sup-
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posed to force air down in, however, our evaluation
indicates that this is more effective. We’ve got the
air starting at the bottom and coming up,” said
Frame,
At the Pine Hill Farm, 2,800 sows are housed in a
farrow-to-wean barn.
Each sow has about 11 piglets per litter. The pi
glets remain on the farm until they weigh about 14
pounds. At that point they are trucked to a nursery
farm, where they are kept until they weigh between
45 and 50 pounds. From there, the piglets are
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