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22 THE RURAL VOICE
The Ramakers' greenhouse barn
covered the south wall of their dairy
barn.
plastic made too much noise as it
blew in the wind on this, the windiest
side of the barn.
Eventually, he removed the
greenhouse roof and moved it
elsewhere on the farm for hay
storage. In its place he put a
permanent roof extension.
That was just one of the changes
the family has made. They also sold
their dairy herd and now are into
sheep.
But Herman still has faith in the
concept of the hoop barn. If he was
going to expand his sheep operation
he'd build a similar barn, he says,
only this time he'd use the opaque
white plastic similar to that being
used in so many other fabric -covered
barns these days.0
Road less taken
still comfortable
for Kroes family
Jack and Marg Kroes made it
plain, when we talked to them back
in January 1998, that they weren't
criticizing those who went into three -
site production which was the new
kid on the block, but they just wanted
to do things differently.
So, although they had been
keeping 120 sows and selling weaner
pigs, their decision wasn't to get
larger in that specialized area, it was
instead to move to finishing their
own pigs. And when they decided to
build a new finishing barn, instead of
choosing slatted floors and liquid
manure, they chose a straw -based
system, and Jack says he doesn't
regret the move at all.
Their 140 -by -94 -foot barn
contains 18 cement -walled pens, each
capable of holding 50 feeder pigs.
The pens are arranged on either side
of a centre aisle which is used for