Feed Department

Value Added; Quality Driven

The names and numbers you need to know

Farmers Cooperative Co. (FC) Feed has 6 manufacturing locations across central, north central and northwest Iowa. These locations include Bondurant, Buckeye, Earlham, Greene, Newell and Sac City. From these feed mills, FC manufactures 500,000+ tons of complete feed annually.

From Sac City, Ned Lenhart serves the western half of our FC trade territory. Keith Freie, located in Hampton, provides his expertise to customers in the eastern area. Together, these hog experts have over 45 years of swine industry experience. Ned and Keith work to help you find nutritional sources for your pigs. They are ready to help you fine-tune your production system and answer nutritional questions. Naturally, they're also available to discuss new products and any pricing questions. If you need a service call, contact Ned or Keith.

Beef customers, whether you have a problem in need of a solution or a question that needs an answer, Al Clough and Melissa Robinson are our FC beef experts. They are available to walk through your feedlots, offer production recommendations, price feed and formulate rations. Look to them for useful advice that will benefit your entire beef production system, whether you own a feedlot or manage a cow/calf operation. It is easy to arrange a conversation with Al or Melissa.

Our 6 FC Feed Mills Are Well Positioned For Your Success. We can easily supply feed for beef and hogs destined for any of these packing plants. Available grain bushels are essential to our strength. Our FC grain receiving stations number 40, the most elevators under a single grain dealers license in the U.S. Of the 118,000,000 bushels received each year, 12,500,000 bushels fuel our 6 feed mills.

Making sure that customers get the right feed at the right time in the right place is very important to FC. That is why all 6 feed mills have an extensive quality program in place. FC believes in a one-to-one relationship with customers. Whenever you have new challenges, new objectives or new questions contact one of these specialists for fast and useful answers.

Resource	Description
Beeflinks.com	Beeflinks is your home for beef cattle nutrition & management information.
Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers	The Coalition provides individual farm families with specific help in understanding, implementing and following rules and regulations covering animal agriculture. Created by: Iowa Cattlemen’s Association; Iowa Corn Growers Association; Iowa Farm Bureau; Iowa Poultry Association; Iowa Pork Producers Association; and Iowa Soybean Association.
FC Feed Allocation System	This link will take you to FC's online feed budget tracking program.
Iowa Beef Industry Council	The Iowa Beef Industry Council is an organization working for the cattle producers of Iowa in areas of education, promotion and research.
Mycotoxins	The term Mycotoxin literally means poison from a fungi. Mycotoxins are substances produced from fungal secondary metabolic processes, which impair animal health thereby causing great economic losses of livestock through disease.
National Daily Cattle and Beef Summary	This daily report is put out by USDA Livestock & Grain Market News. Very easy to read useful information.
National Daily Hog and Pork Summary	This daily report is put out by USDA Livestock & Grain Market News. Very easy to read useful information.