The continued expansion of the livestock industry has led to more feed mills says a report from the Sioux City Journal.
Cooperative Farmers Elevator is building a 167-foot-tall feed mill in Ocheyedan, IA. The state-of-the-art mill is expected to produce 3,000 tons of swine feed during its 18 hours of operation daily.
“It should be completed this fall,” says Steve Petersen, vice-president of CFE’s feed division. “We’re pretty excited with how it’s coming along.”
The Northwest Iowa mill will require 70,000 bushels of corn per day, and all of that will be locally sourced, Petersen says. The mill will produce 780,000 tons of feed annually.
Storage capacity on the site is 1,790 tons, which also includes bean meal and other ingredients.
CFE currently owns eight feed mills and leases two more in Northwest Iowa, Southwest Minnesota and Southeast South Dakota, Petersen says.
“We haven’t built a feed mill under CFE, which is the result of three local cooperative coming together two and a half years ago,” says Mike Lund, CFE’s feed operations manager. “The hog industry is growing in northwest Iowa, and the size of the industry is pushing the older mills harder.”
“With the increased production with the newer packing plants, we saw an opportunity to add to the mill capacity,” Petersen adds.
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