“An attractive member of the family”
A high-bay warehouse extending over an area of 1500 square metres, a loading ramp, exhibition and meeting rooms as well as office space covering 400 square metres: With these benchmark data the new…
Electronic sow feeding system with 25 % price advantage
Big Dutchman electronic sow feeding systems (ESF) have an excellent reputation among sow producers. Now the German housing equipment supplier from Vechta-Calveslage has added a new ESF station to its…
Sow management of 2,600 animals in a closed system
For more than 20 years already, Big Dutchman has supported pig farmers in post-socialist Europe in reconstructing outdated production units. Recently also in Roman in the East of Romania. The company…
Reduced workload in sow management thanks to QuigTag
Sow farmers who successfully want to produce piglets always have to have an excellent overview of the production and performance data of their animals. Therefore, mobile computers or tablet PCs in…
Training farmers with Big Dutchman pig equipment
A state-of-the-art training facility for developing pig farmers was recently opened 80 km North of Durban just outside Pietermaritzburg. The Baynesfield Training Academy (BTA) is a joint venture…
Pig equipment for modern pig production: Hungarian Big Dutchman representative office is expanding
No matter whether he visits the German Big Dutchman headquarters or his Hungarian customers: Gábor Peresztegi is a well-known expert for Big Dutchman housing equipment as well as a reliable partner…
Big Dutchman co-founder passes away at age 100
Jack DeWitt, who founded Big Dutchman in 1938 with his brother, Dick DeWitt, passed away at his home in Zeeland, USA, on January 6th, 2012. While Jack was only 24 days away of turning 101, Big…
“Looking beyond one’s own four walls is worth the effort!”
“Every trainee who gets offered such a chance should take it“! Carolin Schlömer was absolutely thrilled when she recently returned from Malaysia where she completed a foreign internship. The young…
Top marks for innovation and promotion
Big Dutchman has an outstanding reputation amongst agriculturalists in Germany. This is reflected by the latest image barometer of the German Agricultural Society (DLG). The renowned survey has…
Technical training on electronic sow feeding & BigFarmNet
With BigFarmNet, Big Dutchman has a cutting-edge technology on offer which makes pig production much easier: all controllers, computers and sensors on a farm are able to communicate with each other;…