Choosing the right ESF system is important, but issues can still arise, as with any feeding system.
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Chet Mogler, who runs Pig Hill Farms with family in northwest Iowa, has found their ESF system vital to their 4,400-sow farm. Pig Hill Farms
Whether you’re running an electronic sow feeding system in a 4,000-head commercial sow farm or in a 150-sow intensive research complex, most herd managers would agree: Patience and positivity are key in training that sow or gilt.
Chet Mogler, who runs Pig Hill Farms with his father, two uncles and two first cousins in northwest Iowa, has found their ESF system vital to their 4,400-sow farm. In 2015, the fourth-generation family farm built a state-of-the-art facility and decided to change to large group pens.