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HOW DOES THE
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1) Grain is loaded into the upper chamber
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3) The operator lowers the dump chutes
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lower part of the bin for cooling/storage
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and another batch is loading into the
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' No gear boxes, motors, or bearings inside the bin
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' 2 to 3 times faster per horsepower than a stirring machine
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28 THE RURAL VOICE
worker, not an independent
producer," Bedford said. The current
U.S. system is a new, corporate
version of the old Soviet centrally
controlled system, Bedford claimed.
"If it was bad for them it should be
bad for us," he said.
But Bedford offered a vision of an
alternative system where caring
consumers will buy meat products
from smaller farmers who raise
animals humanely. In Iowa
independent farmers, along with the
humane society, environmentalists
and people concerned with the
welfare of animals have created an
alliance to bring producers and
consumers together.
"We're working with the Iowa
Farmers Union to build an
infrastructure to make it possible."
Direct selling to consumers is a
key ingredient, he said.
"Farmers who are selling
their products on the internet are
making a living raising pigs in a
more humane way."
In the U.S. 30 per cent of the
public will pay the producer more for
humanely raising livestock, he said.
The real future is raising animals for
those consumers who care. He
quoted rural philosopher Wendell
Berty who said "food with a story
tastes better".
He talked about developing a
"values -added" agricultural model.
"That's the way not to become a
serf in an industrial production
farm," he said.
Much the same argument came
from Fred Tait of Hogwatch
Manitoba who urged farmers to build
coalitions with people outside the
agricultural industry such as
consumers worried about the
environment. Farmers often see these
people as enemies but Tait asked,
"When was the last time you suffered
a severe economic loss because of
environmentalists? And when was
the last time you suffered a severe
economic Toss because of a
dysfunctional marketplace?"
Industrialization of agriculture was
creating a dysfunctional marketplace,
Tait argued.
While Chris Bedford praised
small farms as a more humane way to
raise animals, an OMAF veterinarian
specializing in swine production said
being small doesn't mean a hog farm