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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."

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 10.03.2010. 01:46

Newfoundland feed grain facility to get upgrades

With the aim of making their Stephenville facility more competitive and efficient, the Newfoundland Feed Grain Society is receiving an injection of $400,000 from the federal government.

The announcement was made last Monday by Senator Ethel Cochrane, who said the money was made available through the government's Community Adjustment Fund.

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Elevator group elects leadership

US - The Minnesota Grain and Feed Association, which represents the country grain elevator and feed mill industry in Minnesota, elected its 2010 leadership at the 103rd annual meeting, hosted in conjunction with the MGFA Annual Convention and Trade Show, in Mankato.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 09.03.2010. 01:46

Feed Company Violated BSE Controls

A provider of animal feed to nine states is violating federal regulations that prohibit animal proteins in ruminant feed to control the spread of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The prohibitions were put in place to prevent BSE, or Mad Cow Disease.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 05.03.2010. 01:16

Hopewell ethanol plant to supply animal feed ingredient

Osage Bio Energy, which is building the nation's first barley-to-ethanol plant in Hopewell, has signed a contract to sell a byproduct as an animal feed ingredient.

Henrico County-based Osage said yesterday that it will supply barley protein meal to Land O'Lakes Purina Feed, a Minnesota-based producer of animal feeds.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 22.02.2010. 01:12