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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.