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Van Kooten’s confinement hog operation near Leighton Iowa
Wesley Van Kooten runs a large confinement hog operation south of Leighton, near Pella, housing about 6 000 hogs per year with continuous farrowing cycles and multiple nurseries. He manages 52 pens in finishing houses, uses a drop feed system, and keeps sows in four groups with 70 sows per farrowing batch. He also converts farm buildings for hog use, feeds 3 600 to 3 800 hogs to market weight, sells feeders locally, and manages waste via quarterly pit pumping onto fields. He owns little land, rents from Arvin and Royce Pierson, and has prior experience with Brummel Bros. in Leighton.
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