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The Career Focus Green Jobs program is offering wage subsidies to help employers with an environmental focus – including farm businesses - hire new graduates. » Read more...
Alarming research done by the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity shows 93 per cent of Canadians know little or nothing about Canadian farming practices.» Read more...
Chore-Time’s new CUBO™ System will change the way you think about the poultry house climate – all from a simple square box. Click here to learn more about how to improve air quality and keep litter drier while reducing energy costs and minimum ventilation run time with the CUBO™ Air Circulation and Heating System.
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It’s one of the most efficient and high-tech poultry barns in Canada – a layer barn/egg cooling facility that offsets the consumption of electricity and natural gas heating through the use of solar electricity generation and many cutting-edge technologies.
The total estimated annual electricity and natural gas needs of the facility are between 80,000 to 120,000 kWh (with one GJ of natural gas consumption equivalent to 278 kWh). It’s a facility which holds many keys to how a layer facility might be designed and operated so that it produces as much energy as it consumes, known as “net zero.”
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