Chris Bomgaars: Advancing Technology in Swine | Ep. 143
The swine industry is in need of applied & novel technologies to save money for both producers and consumers. In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Chris Bomgaars about different ways we can begin to implement technology into the barns and ways we can use it to get the most out of both our pigs and our employees.
"๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ. ๐๐ง ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด." - ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป:
1. The biggest gaps in management
2. Improving the communication gap between employees
3. Progressing technology in the ag field
4. Integrating technology in the barns
5. Sorting through data
6. Technologies currently worth pursuing
7. Easy technologies to start with
๐ ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐๐ฒ๐๐: Chris grew up in Orange City, Iowa, and in 2008, he saw an opportunity to join the family pork production business. As he began to buy and raise feeder pigs, he saw the writing on the wall; it was time to go big or go out of business. The venture was a success and scaled from about 30 farms to over 350 farms, and started raising over 1.5 million pigs per year (2018). As the company grew, so did the problems from spiking death loss to sinking caregiver morale. In search of an answer to his companyโs issues, Chris searched for a market solution, but none existed. Thatโs when he founded EveryPig, a pig health and production management platform.
๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐, ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ.
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