Industrial authority OKs $9.5 million loan for feed mill in Birdsboro

The Berks County Industrial Development Authority has approved a $9.5 million, low-interest loan for F.M. Brown & Sons Inc. to construct a new feed mill in Birdsboro, and to buy machinery and equipment used in livestock-feed manufacturing.

"We want to keep them in business," Thomas C. McKeon, the authority's executive director, said of the firm that has occupied a building on South Furnace Street since 1927. "Just about every farmer has their own specific feed mix prepared there."

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10.03.2010. 01:46