Templeton, IA – August 2, 2023 PigEasy, LLC, a family-owned and operated company based in Templeton, Iowa, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued PigEasy intellectual property protection in the form of Patent No. US 11,684,038 for its product, MealMeter2.0 intake monitoring dispenser. MealMeter2.0 is a smart feeder system…
Templeton, IA (May 13, 2022) – PigEasy, LLC, a family-owned and operated company based in Templeton, Iowa, has officially unveiled MealMeter 2.0 intake monitoring dispenser. This high-tech iteration of their successful gilt and sow feeding solution takes the notion of optimal feeding to the next level. PigEasy will provide more details about the official release…
Save Time, Feed and Money: PigEasy Helps Canadian Farmer Raise Bigger Piglets Faster Success in farming is a matter of making smart choices and finding the right partners. When Darren Sloan and his family were preparing to expand their sow farm in Ontario, Canada, they spent three years assessing their options and fine-tuning plans for…
World Pork Expo is BACK and in-person after a two year pause due to the ASF outbreak in 2019 and then the global pandemic in 2020. Events are held at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines from June 9-11. PigEasy’s booth will be in the Varied Industries Building along the south wall (V725). The…
The PipePik and SnoutSpout have saved the Moglers a lot of time and hassle. Running the PipePik cleaner through each feed tube a couple times a year helps eliminate feed tube plugging, because it smooths out the inside of the feed tube where feed tends to build up.
“The ideas Dave comes up with are amazing,” says Ben, referring to PigEasy’s founder, Dave Klocke, a pork producer from Templeton, Iowa. “I love the fact that PigEasy’s products work as promised. I took forward to seeing what they come up with next.”
A lot has changed in the last 25 years, especially equipment designs. Installing something new on something old is not without its struggles and headaches. With that in mind, we have come up with ways to make converting to the MealMeter feed dispenser system (pig)EASY.
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The PigEasy MealMeter system of feeders is set up for intuitive ad lib feeding at each pig’s own speed without adjustment. Here’s how:
As (pig)Easy as the MealMeter makes feeding sows, we field some questions that can get a little complex. I answered the top 5 questions we typically field on the MealMeter in a previous post, but I wanted to take it further with more set up and usage questions this time around. Here are the top…
A decrease in non-productive days by optimizing feed intake in the wean row could equal huge savings for sow farms. We often look at the ROI of the MealMeter feed dispenser in easy terms. (Think feed waste and increased production.) The estimated ROI on feed waste is calculated fairly easily by estimating how much…
For some time now, Katie, PigEasy’s Director of Marketing (DOM)… (daughter of mine)…. has been encouraging me (nagging me) to pen some blogs that elaborate on what makes the MealMeter System (MMS) the clear tool of choice for feeding sows. Since its inception at Klocke Farms, we have continued to refine its use to…
The World Pork Expo is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. 30 years of delicious pork, 30 years of fellowship, and 30 years of industry innovations. PigEasy is also celebrating a milestone; 5 years as a company. While we’re still considered a “newbie” in the swine industry, our products have been developed with over 50…
Shopping for new feeders is not as easy as it seems. You do the research on multiple feeders, and everything makes sense why they should work well. You choose a feeder that looks most promising, excited for it to make your life and your staff’s lives easier, only to find out later a design flaw…
The Christmas lights are boxed up and the champagne flutes are back on the shelf. This can only mean one thing: it’s time to gear up for the Winter Pork Trade Show season! We had the opportunity to exhibit these products at the Brandon Hog Days in December. The weather was as mild as the…
Here’s what you need to know: 1) This wet/dry feeder needs to be the sow’s ONLY source of water. I know, it’s an odd request, but trust us on this one. This feeder is a system that trains the sow to clean up her bowl with every drink. If the sow has another option…