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Headquartered in Gainesville, Georgia, Mar-Jac Poultry is an integrated poultry production company that operates processing plants, feed mills and hatcheries in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. [1] Established in 1954, the company as of 2023 produces two million birds and 8,500 tons of feed per week. [1]
Alltech is an American company, headquartered in Nicholasville, Kentucky, with operations in animal feed, meat, brewing, and distilling. [2] Alltech develops agricultural products for use in both livestock and crop farming, as well as products for the food industry.
The company opened a $45 million, 500-job processing facility in South Kelso, Washington in 1998. [4] It also acquired the Butterball Turkey Company's turkey processing plant and feed mill in Turlock, California, along with a hatchery in Fresno, California, and purchased Griffith Foods, an Alabama producer of corn dogs.
The history of the company goes back to 1895 and was known for feed milling. [4] In 1916, D.W. McMillen started manufacturing a feed by the name of 'Wayne' which was later chosen as a name for the company. [4] In 1965, Allied Mills spun-out its poultry business in order to focus on manufacturing and named the new company, Wayne Farms. [4]
Later, in 1902, he merged with university professor Webster Edgerly, founder of Ralstonism, who was at the time producing breakfast cereals, to form the "Ralston Purina Company". [1] Ralston Purina sold Purina Mills, the U.S. animal feed business, to British Petroleum in 1986, while retaining the pet food and international animal feed ...
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Manufactured animal feed. Feed manufacturing refers to the process of producing animal feed from raw agricultural products. Fodder produced by manufacturing is formulated to meet specific animal nutrition requirements for different species of animals at different life stages.
Kent Feeds was founded by Gage A. Kent in Indianola, Iowa in 1927, where he used a mill to manufacture cattle feed. The company's first product, "Kent Baby Beef," was marketed as a cattle feed with high protein and no filler. A fire destroyed the original mill in Indianola and eventually Kent moved the company to a new plant in Muscatine, Iowa.