Feed Department

Value Added; Quality Driven

The names and numbers you need to know

Farmers Cooperative Co. (FC) Feed has 9 manufacturing locations across central, north central and northwest Iowa. These locations include Bondurant, Buckeye, Earlham, Everly, Greene, Hampton, Newell, Sac City and Spencer. From these feed mills, FC manufactures 850,000+ tons of complete feed annually.

From Sac City, Ned Lenhart serves the western part of our trade area. Keith Freie, located in Hampton, provides his expertise to customers in the eastern part of our trade area. Lance Livingston, located in Earlham serves the southern part of our trade area. From Everly, Mark Strohman and Lonnie Hansen serve the northern part of our trade area. Together, these business development experts have over 100 years of swine industry experience. Ned, Keith, Lance Lonnie and Mark 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, Keith, Lance, Lonnie or Mark.

Beef customers, whether you have a problem in need of a solution or a question that needs an answer, Al Clough, Mark Jensen and Chuck Cosgrove are our 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, Chuck or Mark.

Our 9 FC Feed Mills Are Well Positioned For Your Success. We can easily supply feed for hogs destined for any of these packing plants. Available grain bushels are essential to our strength. Our FC grain receiving stations number 44, the most elevators under a single grain dealers license in the U.S. Of the 118,000,000 bushels received each year, 22,500,000 bushels fuel our 9 feed mills.

Making sure customers get the right feed at the right time in the right place is very important to FC. That is why all 9 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 our 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.
Corn Silage and High Moisture Grain Production	Harvesting forage or high moisture grain at the proper moisture is perhaps the single most important management practice overlooked today. Proper moisture levels in research trials have demonstrated better digestibility of protein and energy, less spoilage, improved intakes and more dry mattered recovered leading to better gains, feed conversions and lower cost of gains. This BEC update is focused on the moisture to reduce spoilage that equates to ACRES!
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.
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.