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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.