“Our bedding is more suited to a dessert climate where it won’t get damp, but the Big Ass Fans have kept it dry and lowered our somatic cell count during humid summers, which is opposite of every other farm I’ve heard of."
Problem
Established in 1960 in Athens, Ontario, Roosburg Farms is a milk-first GEA MIone robot farm that is committed to cow comfort and high production.Though its barns were naturally ventilated, the hot days of summer took a tollon the comfort of the animals. Management looked into a number of cooling solutions but found nothing that generated the quiet air movement they needed
Solution
Roosburg Farms installed four Big Ass fans for silent cooling power. “The cows loved them,” owner Cole Verburg said. “They moved air throughout the whole barn and earned us an energy rebate through the government.”But soon after, a tragic barn fire struck. As the farm rebuilt, it outfitted its new barn with three more Big Ass fans. Not only did the fans provide unparalleled comfort, they also unexpectedly mitigated the challenges associated with thenew composted manure bedding that the farm had chosen for the updated facility.
Peter Kiewit Infrastructure, Toronto, Ontario
