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Nick Stellern – Service Manager at Integrity Builders & Supply – he’s been with Integrity for 10 years.
- Rehab TV shows are all the rage…..Time to turn it to agriculture
- Remind us who is Integrity Builders & Supply?
- You’re an Iowa company – we see a lot of your new construction projects.
- Do you also you do more than just build new barns for farmers-
- When someone is driving thru the countryside – and we’re looking at all of these hog buildings. Are they the same on the inside? (talking about the different types of barns Integrity works on finishing barns – sow units – pig nurseries – cattle barns – turkey buildings)
- What can be different?
- Does this change the contract amount for the owner?
- A lot of hog buildings throughout Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota that have been in production for 10 -20 years. Producers are updating contracts.
- Let’s talk about remodeling livestock barns to update technology and components. How little or how much do you do for pork producers at Integrity?
- How do you know how much needs replaced?
- Remodeling gating – feed lines – curtains – controllers – rebuilding end walls – new roofs
- Can do you this in phases?
- What kind of costs could a listener be looking at? - per space cost?
- What about a building that has been affected by a natural disaster?
- Hog buildings are unfortunately no different than houses and catastrophes happen – fires – storms – do you help farmers get them thru natural disasters/
- What are the benefits of working with a company that has a construction department – full service team – parts warehouse for livestock farmers –?
- Being with Integrity for 10 years – what are the changes in the pork industry you’ve seen to help keep pigs healthy and living comfortably?
- How far do you guys go to work on hog buildings?
- Winter is coming here in the Midwest – as a guy in barns almost every day – what do you want farmers checking or doing right now on their hog buildings?
- What’s the best advice you have ever been given?
Summary
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