JULY ON THE FARM

As I said in June’s newsletter, it seems like most of what we’re doing this time of year is mowing and bush hogging, but there are a few other things that are getting done.  Jesse has been working hard at getting new water lines run to the sow pens and adding a mist system to each of the shades.  In a week or so work will begin on adding a new water system that will replace the nipple and bowl waterers in our hog grow lots.  We ran a trial on the new system with a group of 50 pigs from the time they were moved into a grow lot until they were ready for market.  The system was pretty much trouble free and provided cool water to the pigs no matter if it was summer or winter.  A feature that we liked was that there was no nipple to freeze in the winter and the pigs always had water available even when everything was frozen.  We haven’t set a time frame to get this project completed but hope to have all the grow lots and the sow lots using this system by December.

We care about the food you eat

Keegan-Filion Farm cares about what you eat. Our promise is simple:

• Grass-Fed
• Hormone Free
• Antibiotic Free
• No Animal By-Products
• Humane Treatment of our Animals

The above terms may have different meanings depending upon who is using them but to us it is our pledge to you that what we produce will be the best that we can provide.

Read here for our definitions of these sometimes nebulous terms.