2006-06-15 Author: Mike McLean |
A High River hog producer wins a provincial environmental honor. Dennis Mckerracher picked up an Emerald Award for research and innovation in Edmonton Wednesday night. Mckerracher says he was surprised to get the award which was for a hog watering study. "It doesn't have to cost you a million or a million and a half dollars to make a difference and to make a difference to the environment or your bottom line in retrofitting a hog barn", he says, "what we did is very simply just change from a standard bite nipple to a ball bite nipple". Mckerracher says the ball bite drinkers save as much as one third of an operation's annual water expenses by limiting the amount the pigs spill. |