city, fully connected with our consumers, both private house- holds and hospitality professionals, and with our suppliers.”
Next phase poultry The floating dairy farm experiences paved the way for the next phase of the floating farm concept, a floating egg farm. The owners of the Floating Farm Peter and Minke van Wing- erden teamed up with innovation platform Kip van Oranje founders Albert Hoekerswever and Noud Janssen and forged plans for a layer farm on a second barge next to the dairy op- eration. The Kip van Oranje focus project encompasses a barge for 7.000 layers in an aviary system with a range area on the top deck and egg packing and processing equipment on the lower deck. Janssen: “We want to build a 30×30 meter barge, which will have a 10 meter wide indoor area for the birds, with a 10 meter wide covered range on both sides. The whole design will be as transparent as possible, while being closed of to the outside to mitigate the risk of avian influenza coming from wild birds that are abundant in harbor areas.” Van Wingerden adds: “Transparency is key, as we are open and accessible for the public and will sell part of our products directly from the farm. Nowadays many consumers don’t have a clue anymore where their food comes from, on of our goals of our farms is to restore this farm to consumer connection.”
High tech, high touch Although relatively small scale, the floating egg farm will be
fully loaded with the latest technology. Janssen: “In our over developed society some people are longing back to nostalgic farming practices, but we are not bringing back nostalgy. The floating egg farm will be close to the consumer, but high tech at the same time.” Kip van Oranje brings together top notch industry players to equip the farm. Hoekerswever explains: “We have created a community of preferred suppliers, all ex- perienced in installing equipment to the biggest industry players in the world. For this project they have to think out of the box, making things happen on a smaller, far more innova- tive scale.” According to the project lead Vencomatic signed in for the aviary system, Prinzen for egg packing, Hotraco Agri supplies the control units and Smits Agro will build the on ship feed plant. Furthermore Moba is on board for egg break- ing and processing and Stalmeesters will do emission control. Janssen: “Because the farm is situated in a future residential area, we aim for a zero emission concept. Dust and ammonia will be filtered out the outgoing air and filter performance will be monitored end of pipe. The farm wants to be 100% transparent on its emissions.” The floating egg farm has to function as a normal poultry op- eration, but at the same time it will be a testbed of innovative systems. “Everything from emission control, on site feed man- ufacturing with inclusion of city food waste streams to the production of semi-finished egg products for -for example- egg burgers has to be designed and implemented in the con- finements of the barge. Our partners rise to the challenge, for one to make this project a reality, but also with the promise
▶ POULTRY WORLD | No. 1, 2020
An artist impres- sion gives some insights in the plans of Floating Farms. In de far background the existing dairy farm, in the mid- dle the egg farm barge and in the front the vertical vegetable farm.
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