What the textbooks don’t tell you about…Computerised Wet Feeding: Past, present and future

I confess that I have been a lifelong convert to the wet (pipeline) feeding of pigs. For myself it all started on the Taymix farm in Dorset, England when with some 12,000 growing pigs to feed, the pump of our wet feeding system broke down and the replacement part took three days to arrive. All hands, including myself as technical director were mustered to carry bags of feed to each of the 800 pens. Twice a day. I finished at two in the morning and had to be back at it again at 6 am. For three da