Posted by PJH on November 02, 2014 at 19:32:41 from (50.40.234.123):
In Reply to: Lose of Feed Mills posted by Banditfarmer on November 02, 2014 at 07:18:07:
Our local mill closed a couple of years ago, but it didn't have anything to do with the government. The heydays for feed grinding was back when there were hogs on every farm. You'd hear that grinder whining nearly all day long. There hasn't been a hog around here since the mid eighties. Now all of the real livestock men have their own storage bins and grinder/mixers, and the mill was left with a bunch of us little guys. My feed buggy holds a ton and a half of ground feed, but there were lots of 500 pound grinds for them, and then most customers wanted it bagged (open top) by hand. They loved it when I pulled in once a week wanting 3000 pounds of loose feed augered right in my buggy. Now I need maybe three loads a year. They also saved samples of each grind, but said it was for their own protection and not a mandate from anyone. The kid that weighed, ground, mixed, sacked the feed was minimum wage, and it still wasn't a money maker. The next mill in operation is another ten miles farther from here, and when (not if) it closes it will be another 15 miles to the last one in operation, providing it outlasts number two. I'm 65 years old and not going to rush out and buy storage and grinding equipment for my small cattle herd. When corn got outrageously high, I quit feeding corn. I'll do it again when the time comes.
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