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Explore the benefits of using BinTalk, the leading wireless feed monitoring system, to optimize bin level management. Achieve real-time visibility and enhance efficiency for feed operations.

Discover how BinTalk's wireless feed monitoring system revolutionizes feed management. Monitor feed bin levels in real-time for efficient operations. Integrates seamlessly with MTech software.

Explore the advantages of bin tracker software to achieve precision livestock farming and improve feed management.

Discover how automatic poultry weighing systems enhance precision and broiler management in poultry farming.

Optimize resource allocation in poultry farming with BinTalk wireless feed sensor. Get real-time insights into poultry bins for efficient feed management.

Wireless feed bin sensors are changing the feed monitoring landscape by offering a more accurate, affordable, and easier-to-install alternative.

Our latest e-book, "How Ag Tech is Driving Sustainable Production," explores the role of technology and data-driven insights in empowering poultry and swine producers to meet the rising demand for protein in a sustainable manner.

Remote Humidity Sensor: Importance in Barn Monitoring | BarnTools

Explore how the BarnTalk farm communication hub transforms iot farming and ag tech with its advanced farm management system. Monitor barn conditions in real-time.

In today's rapidly evolving agricultural landscape, optimizing supply chains and ensuring biosecurity have become paramount for swine and poultry producers.

Discover how BinTalk's wireless feed sensor offers over 96% accuracy compared to traditional feed scales, providing a more affordable and easy-to-install solution for real-time feed inventory management.

By digitally mapping feed bin levels across every site, producers, integrators, and feed mills gain real-time insights into feed levels.

Today’s technology allows the pork producer or farm manager to monitor barn conditions via their smartphone. This technology helps the producer respond to issues before they become a bigger problem. (National Pork Board and the Pork Checkoff/Lori Hays)

Learn how BarnTalk is revolutionizing farm management and drives superior poultry and swine performance.

Explore how BarnTalk's real-time data solutions are helping producers drive sustainable production.

Temperature Sensors: Safeguarding Livestock in Extreme Weather

Remote cannabis monitoring technology from BarnTalk's innovative alarm system provides a seamless solution for maintaining optimal growing conditions.

Discover BarnTalk's IoT solution for farm monitoring. Experience real-time updates and alerts without the need for Wi-Fi, ensuring your farm's optimal performance.

Discover how to monitor temperature and humidity remotely without WiFi using BarnTalk. Ideal for temperature alarms, humidity sensors, and remote wireless monitoring.

Discover the innovative temperature sensor with a display from BarnTools. Monitor farm conditions accurately with added humidity sensor display for optimal efficiency.

Discover BarnTalk's wireless greenhouse monitoring system. Optimize your greenhouse needs with real-time data and insights at your fingertips.

BarnTools’ wireless system BarnTalk is making monitoring the barn’s environment 24/7 possible for every owner

Understand the capabilities of radar level sensors and compare them with BarnTalk's unique BinTalk sensor technology for precise feed monitoring, ensuring optimized livestock feed monitoring.

Explore reliable bin tracking solutions to support swine and poultry growth by preventing feed outages and ensuring 24/7 visibility into your feed bins with BarnTalk's BinTalk sensor.

Dean Frazer and his son and daughter-in-law, Grant and Josie, can track what’s going on in their hog facilities from their phone utilizing BarnTalk.

Reliable alarms are the first line of defense against losses and inefficiencies on any operation. They’re also the bedrock for achieving optimal production.

Discover why growers, producers, and integrators are switching to a self-connecting alarm.

Download your product guide to learn how you can monitor equipment across your barns in real-time.

At BarnTools, we’ve developed the self-connecting BarnTalk alarm to provide growers, managers, and supervisors with a more reliable, affordable, real-time barn monitoring solution to protect their operation.

For pig and poultry growers, traditional feed monitoring methods have long been the standard, with growers relying on guessing the volume of feed in the bins.

Download your BinTalk Product Guide to discover the benefits.

For pig and poultry growers, wireless feed bin sensors are a reliable solution that offers several benefits over traditional methods of measuring feed.

Zach Holmes was looking for a modern way to monitor his birds without the burden of high costs. He needed a reliable system, and wanted the ability to leave his site when he didn’t need to be there.

Download your BarnTalk Preventing Losses guide to learn how you can protect your most valuable asset with a more reliable alarm.

Nutra Tech was faced with the end of the 3G network across their sites. It was only a matter of time before they would have to change their approach to connectivity.

Unveil the top-performing barn alarms and monitoring solutions in our essential report.

Have you ever heard the saying “Lightning never strikes the same place twice?” For growers using alarms connected to a landline, hotspot, or modem, this is anything but the reality.

From Day 1, BarnTools’ mission to create an all-around wireless feed monitoring system has been solution-driven.

Swine and poultry growers provide a significant source of protein for people around the world, and the demand for their products is only increasing.

Whether you’re a grower, service tech, or a production supervisor, we all like saving time in our operation. After all, time equals money, and a little bit more of both can go a long way in our industry.

Raising poultry is in Rhett Murphy’s blood. Growing up, he worked on his family poultry farm and began most of his mornings walking their chicken houses before heading into school.

At any given moment, new problems can arise inside livestock facilities that demand an immediate fix. One minute, everything is running smoothly.

Jake installed BarnTalk on his 4,000-head finishing site last summer to get hands-on experience with the system and quickly learned it provided “good checks and balances against the computer system sensors.”

Wireless feed bin sensors have been developed to help growers measure the amount of feed in their bins, helping to optimize feed delivery schedules, reduce out of feed events, and improve their animals’ performance.

With the BinTalk wireless feed bin sensor, growers can monitor the amount of feed inside their bins 24/7 on their smartphone.

For poultry grower Todd Clark in Embro, Ontario, the challenges of using a wired alarm system were a harsh reality for over two decades. Switching to BarnTalk was a breath of fresh air.

David Traetow kept getting alarm calls from his Sensaphone and would have to drive out to his barns during snow storms to identify the problem.

With wireless feed monitoring technology promising to revolutionize the way growers measure feed intake, it’s important to consider how wireless feed sensors compare to other methods of measuring feed.

With the 3G network officially brought to a close, traditional alarm systems and dialers have gone out of service and are leaving growers, producers, and integrators in the dark.

With the temperatures plummeting dramatically, Perdue grower Jack Spreen received a low temp alarm for one of his hog barns. He discovered his barn curtain fell off completely and was allowing the frigid air to pour into the barn.

Along with having 24/7 visibility into their barn environment, seeing barn temps in real-time is also helping producers identify potential inefficiencies with their heating systems.

Reicks View Farms needed an alarm with greater visibility so managers and growers no longer had to question whether an alarm was legitimate.

For production supervisor Bill Wurr, having remote access to environmental readings inside his nursery barn was a top priority — whether he was six hours away, or driving to a routine site visit.

The ongoing retirement of landline service is leaving swine and poultry growers in search of next-generation barn monitoring solutions.

BarnTalk is a controller-agnostic alarm, meaning it can be integrated with any controller and serve as a reliable standalone alarm.

For over 20 years, Kent Keppler monitored some of his sites with an alarm system run by a call center. But too often, alarm calls came in long after a problem was originally detected.

Smithfield grower Mike Diggs has placed a BarnTalk temperature sensor in the duct work for each air conditioning unit in the Boar Stud. If the temperature falls below their set threshold, it will notify him immediately.

Health challenges in the swine industry can emerge at the speed of light. Catching an illness before it escalates is the first step in keeping stifled production and death loss at bay.

Picture this: you’re in the middle of a lunch meeting when your phone rings. You can see it’s important. Well, maybe. It’s your barn alarm calling, so it might be telling you that your power is out and the backup generator didn’t come on.

A few years ago, a young man in southeast Iowa graduated high school and had a decision to make. What next? As the son of a 5th generation hog farmer, Sawyer Whisler knew what it took to raise hogs and work the family’s 400 acres of row crops.

“I placed a BarnTalk system in front of my 71-year-old dad, and my 14-year-old son, and asked them if they could figure it out"

A lot of things have changed on the farm since the days when all your facilities were located near the farm house where you lived and you did all the chores morning and night.

BarnTalk measures temperature, water and humidity in poultry and pig barns

BarnTalk’s smart alarm system is specifically designed to give pork and poultry producers a complete and real-time view of their facility’s internal conditions: humidity, temperature, water and power consumption.

Go wireless or go home! Learn how BarnTalk helps eliminate the high cost of maintaining a wired alarm system.

BarnTalk is so easy to use that it’s being adopted in communities that are so resistant to new technology, that many of who don’t even have electricity in their homes

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about BarnTools - what it is, how it works, and much more

Knowing the conditions inside your livestock facilities, and whether or not your animals are getting feed and water, can only be possible if you have reliable connectivity.

While modern alarms have a clear advantage over traditional alarms, understanding the most important features that go into creating a full-potential alarm can help you separate good alarms from the very best.

If you thought traditional legacy alarms like Agri-Alert and Sensaphone do enough to protect your most valuable asset, think again. Here are five myths about barn alarms—busted:

The health of your animals can change in the blink of an eye. Highly transmissible diseases can strike your barn in an instant, causing the condition of your livestock to go from bad to worse in mere hours.

If you have a $500,000 asset full of live animals, spending a few hundred dollars on an independent barn alarm system will help prevent livestock mortality

While there are a number of vital nutrients necessary for poultry and swine to thrive, none are as important as water, especially when it comes to overall performance

Livestock and poultry producers proving value in practical new technology

BarnTools introduces their BarnTalk, a remote monitoring system that can capture data on temperature, water consumption, and humidity within a barn, allowing producers to view this information from any location.