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Commodity Feed Source Directory

 

Commodity Feed Sources for Mississippi Producers

Available commodity feed sources are listed below. This list is provided to assist Mississippi livestock producers in locating feed supplies. It is comprised of information compiled by Mississippi State University Extension Service personnel.

 

Additional current feed source information is welcomed. To submit a new feed source listing or update to a current listing:

1) Complete a Mississippi Feed Source Listing Submission Form,

2) E-mail listing information to brandi.karisch@msstate.eduor

3) Fax listing information to 662-325-8873

 
Manufacturers
Contact Information Available Feeds
Archer Daniels Midland

4666 Faries Parkway
Decatur, Illinois 62525

Office Phone: 800-637-5855

Fax: 217-424-5681

Soybean meal, soybean hull pellets
Ag Fibers, LLC

Contact: Kendall Merritt
1301 Ennis Rd.

Dothan, AL 36302

Office Phone: 334-699-2848

Cell Phone: 334-806-1672

E-mail: kendall@agfibers.com

Ground peanut hulls, peanut hull meal, peanut hull pellet (guarantee min 8% protein, 3% fat, average 9.5%protein and 4.5% fat)

Agridyne - MIX 30 Liquid Feed

Springfield, Illinois 62704
Office Phone: 800-575-7585 ext. 258

Fax: 217-787-4303

Contact: Andrew Jones

Cellular Phone: 815-228-7820

E-mail: ajones@mix30.com

www.mix30.com

Corn-based, high-energy liquid feed. Can be fed free-choice, in a lick wheel feeder, or blended into a ration

Arkansas SoyEnergy Group, L.L.C.

2780 Hwy. 165 South
P. O. Box 700

DeWitt, Arkansas 72042

Office Phone: 870-946-1551

Fax: 870-946-3608

Contact: Terry L. McCullars

Cellular Phone: 870-946-9016

E-mail:tmccullars@arkansassoyenergy.com

Soybean meal, soybean hulls, glycerol

Bunge-Ergon Vicksburg, LLC

1833 Haining Road

Vicksburg, MS 39183

Office Phone: 601-636-1976

Fax: 601-638-0016

Contact: Debra 'Debbie' Buckelew

Cellular Phone: 601-636-0517

E-mail: debra.buckelew@bunge.com

www.bunge-ergon-vicksburg.com/grains

Dried distillers grains, dried distillers grains with solubles, wet distillers grains, wet distillers grains with solubles, modified distillers grains with solubles, condensed distillers solubles (syrup)

Bunge Greenville

992 River Grain Road
Greenville, Mississippi 38701
Phone: 662-378-8135/8136
Fax: 662-332-9317

www.bungegreenville.com

Grain and oilseed processing by-products

Cargill

1762 West St., Suite 102

Blain, NE 68008

Phone: 888-296-8652

Corn gluten feed available out of Memphis, TN

Con Agra

11 ConAgra Drive, Suite 11-160

Omaha, NE 68102

Phone: 402-595-4384

Fax: 402-516-3263

Contacts: Justin Dabadie or Charlie Mourning

E-mail: justin.dabadie@conagrafoods.com

Dried distillers grains, wet distillers grains, wheat midds

DeBruce Feed Ingredients

4100 N Mulberry Drive

Kansas City, MO 64116

Office Phone: 800-821-5210

Contact: John Augspurger

Soybean meal, soybean hull pellets, loose soybean hulls, dried distillers grains (DDG), canola meal, whole cottonseed, cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed pellets

DeBruce Grain

445 Port Terminal Road

Rosedale, MS 38769

Office Toll Free: 877-324-7488

Office Phone: 662-759-0000

Contact: Brad Auger

Soybeans, corn, wheat, milo, soybean meal, soybean hull pellets, loose soybean hulls, dried distillers grains (DDG), canola meal, whole cottonseed, cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed pellets

Furst McNess Co.

1010 E. Rachael Drive

Republic, MO 65738

Office Phone: 815-238-0467

Cellular Phone: 815-238-0467

E-mail: mike.smith@mcness.com

Contact: Mike Smith

Distillers grains modified or dried, corn gluten feed, soybean hulls, hominy, cotton products, rice products, minerals

Gatlin Feed

147 Bogue Chitto Road SW

Bogue Chitto, MS 39629

Office Phone: 601-734-6102

Cellular Phone: 601-754-6810

Fax: 601-833-5507

E-mail: sam@gatlincorp.com

Contact: Shane Moak

Cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, soybean hull pellets, dried distillers grain, whole grain corn, cracked corn

Hansen Mueller Grain Co.

P. O. Box 1014

Alabaster, AL 35144

Office Phone: 800-388-7894

Cellular Phone: 205-475-5783

Fax: 205-663-5107

E-mail: bran@hmgrain.com

Contact: Bran Dill

Dried ethanol distillers (gold and dark pelleted), soybean hull pellets, corn gluten feed pellets, corn screenings, corn, Scandinavian oats, Bright white Canadian oats, Canadian Re-Cleaned oats, 10% peanut pellet, 63% corn gluten meal, hi-pro distillers, and candy feed (chocolate bars). Other ingredients available upon request.

Quito Gin, Inc.

24388 Hwy. 7 South

Itta Bena, MS 38941

Office Phone: 662-254-7676

Cellular Phone: 662-299-3373

Fax: 662-254-6315

E-mail: dggqgi0@yahoo.com

Contacts: Whitney Rawlings or Sally Presnell

Whole cottonseed always in stock, ready to pick up or be delivered by our trucks to your location, January through August cottonseed is ready for pick up in SW Tennessee or Itta Bena, Mississippi

Riceland Foods

P. O. Box 927

Stuttgart, AR 72160

Phone: 870-673-5314

Rice by-products (defatted), soy mill run

Runyon Industries, Inc.

4300 Millington Rd.

Memphis, TN 38127

Office Phone: 901-353-4484

Cellular Phone: 901-301-0743

Fax: 901-357-4174

E-mail: Stan@runyonindustries.com

Contact: Stan Runyon

Feeding fats, liquid feed, vegetable oil/protein topdress, custom formulation as well as proprietary blends of liquid fat and protein sources

SEMO Milling LLC

261 River Road

Scott City, MO 63780

Office Phone: 573-264-2677

Fax: 573-264-1305

E-mail: dbailiff@semomilling.com

Contact: Doug Bailiff

Hominy feed made from dry corn milling process

Swartz Ag, LLC

261 Hamilton Road

Montezuma, GA 31063

Office Phone: 478-472-0005

Cellular Phone: 318-366-0603

Fax: 478-472-0006

E-mail: rebecca@swartzag.com

Contact: Rebecca Elliott

Cottonseed meal, soybean meal, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, fine ground yellow corn

 

Brokers
Contact Information Available Feeds

Alpine Ingredients LLC

24 S Olive Street
Waconia, MN 55387

Office Phone: 952-556-5553

Fax: 866-450-0761

E-mail: jentemplin@alpinewyoming.com

Contact: Jennifer Templin

Acid whey powder, sweet whey powder, lactose, deproteinized whey, delactose whey, whey protein concentrate, whey protein isolate, colostrum, buttermilk powder, nonfat dry milk, whole milk powder, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, potassium caseinate, acid casein, rennet casein, milk protein concentrate, milk protein Isolate, nuts, nut meals, pumpkin seed, sunflower products, sesame seeds, canola products, flax products, millet, milo, safflower, wheat, wheat mids, oat products, dried distilled grains, dried fruits, brewers yeast, buckwheat products,
alfalfa products, beet pulp products, feather meal, fish meal, poultry meal, poultry fat
grease, rice products, soybean products, egg products

Cereal Byproducts Company

Mid-Continent Building 
310 Mid-Continent Plaza, Suite 350
West Memphis, AR 72301

870-732-6041, 877-211-3671

www.cerealbyproducts.com

Wide variety of commodity feed products

Cottonseed Brokers

Phone: 800-876-1241

Cottonseed products

Craig Canull

Columbus, MS

Phone: 662-386-6329, 662-240-0500

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

Fairview Mills, LP

604 Nemaha Street

Seneca, KS 66538

Office Phone: 417-682-3434

Cellular Phone: 417-214-0974

Fax: 417-682-3011

E-mail: ron@fairviewmills.com

Contact: Ron Ellis

Soybean hulls, dried distillers grains, corn gluten feed, wheat midds, hominy, soybean meal, oat products

Feedpail.com

Mankato, MN 56001

Office Phone: 507-625-4557

Cellular Phone: 507-340-3950

E-mail:feedpail@feedpail.com

Contact: Ryan Cooney

www.feedpail.com

Online market for bulk feed ingredients; supplier listings with current availability; reverse auction sourcing tool

Furst McNess Co.

1010 E. Rachael Drive

Republic, MO 65738

Office Phone: 815-238-0467

Cellular Phone: 815-238-0467

E-mail: mike.smith@mcness.com

Contact: Mike Smith

Distillers grains modified or dried, corn gluten feed, soybean hulls, hominy, cotton products, rice products, minerals

Mid-South Grain and Feed Ingredients

4856 Main Street

Flora, MS 39071

Office Phone: 601-879-8311

Fax: 601-879-8751

E-mail: cliffordkinsey@att.net

Contacts: Cliff Kinsey, Bo Magoun, Larry McNair

Corn, corn screenings, corn gluten feed pellets, corn gluten meal, soybean hull pellets, soybean meal, distillers dried grains, cottonseed, cottonseed hull pellets, rice mill feed, rice bran, rice hulls, wheat midds, wheat, milo, citrus pulp pellets, peanut hull pellets, salt, phosphate, limestone

Pacific Ag Commodities Corporation

P. O. Box 348376

Sacramento, CA 95834

Office Phone: 916-419-8590

Cellular Phone: 530-681-5635

Fax: 916-419-8592

E-mail: info@pacificagcommodities.com

Contacts: Christopher Cota

www.pacificagcommodities.com

Ground rice hulls, rice mill feed, rice bran, other feeds upon request

PMG

Phone: 800-424-4439

Can make complete feeds as needed from commodities

Quito Gin, Inc.

24388 Hwy. 7 South

Itta Bena, MS 38941

Office Phone: 662-254-7676

Cellular Phone: 662-299-3373

Fax: 662-254-6315

E-mail: dggqgi0@yahoo.com

Contacts: Whitney Rawlings or Sally Presnell

Whole cottonseed always in stock, ready to pick up or be delivered by our trucks to your location, January through August cottonseed is ready for pick up in SW Tennessee or Itta Bena, Mississippi

Rawlings Brokerage Company

P.O. Box 126

McComb, MS 39649

Office Phone: 601-684-1241, 800-876-1241

Cellular Phone: 601-594-3078

Fax: 601-684-1337

E-mail: kennonsingley@gmail.com

Contacts: Whitney Rawlings, Sally Presnell, or Kennon Singley

www.rawlingsbrokeragecompany.com

#2 extra heavy white oats, #2 yellow shelled corn, corn screenings, grain screening pellets, black strap molasses, corn gluten feed pellets, elevator grain dust, dried distiller's grains, WDGS, 17% protein dehyrated alfalfa pellets, alfalfa hay, whole cottonseed, 41% protein cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed hull pellets, 48% protein soybean meal, soybean hulls, soybean hull pellets, dried citrus pulp / pellets "80/20", gin motes, ground peanut hulls, ground rice hulls, hominy feed, milo, peanut Hulls, rill hulls, rice bran, rice mill feed, salt, urea, wheat midds, bakery waste. All subject to availability.

Short & Miller Marketing, LLC

301 South 4th Ave., Suite 979

Minneapolis, MN 55415

Office Phones: 612-465-0417, 662-465-0416

E-mail:jessekrebs@shortandmillermarketingllc.com

nathanthimmesch@shortandmillermarketingllc.com

Contacts: Jesse Krebs, Nathan Thimmesch

Loose wheat midds, wheat midd pellets, dried distillers grain, hominy, loose soybean hulls, soybean hull pellets, loose corn gluten feed, corn gluten feed pellets, canola meal, soybean meal, citrus pulp, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed meal, whole cottonseed, oat hulls, beet pulp, alfalfa products, whey, linseed meal, sunflower meal; can supply other feedstuffs on request

Smart Brothers Trucking

Booneville, MS

Phone: 662-720-2194

Contact: Bobby Smart

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

Kenny Summerford

Smithville, MS

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

The Commodity Merchant

5384 Poplar, Suite 327

Memphis, TN

Phone: 901-682-6698, 800-442-2177

Off specification food grade products (such as soy fiber and soy white flakes)

W. S. Scott Company

P. O. Box 165
Clinton, MS 39056

Phone: 601-924-1590

Feed ingredient broker
 
Dealers
Contact Information Available Feeds

4W Farm LLC

7450 Gloster Road

Meadville, MS 39653

Phone: 601-384-2551, 601-384-0549

Contact: Ike Williamson

Corn, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed meal, soybean meal, soybean hull pellets, corn gluten feed pellets, oats, rice bran, rice mill feed, whole cottonseed, alfalfa pellets, custom mixed feed available in truckload quantities

AgriCommodities, Inc.

3532 Pebble Beach Drive

Augusta, GA 30907
Office Phone: 706-869-1075

Fax: 706-869-0146

Contacts: Vicki Ragnow, Paul Rosenzweig

Cellular Phone: 706-495-2171

E-mail: vicki@agricommodities.net

Whole corn, dried distillers grains, corn gluten feed pellets, soybean hull pellets, soybean meal, citrus pulp pellets, wheat midds, rice hulls, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed meal, corn screenings, whole cottonseed, hominy, oats; bulk (23-ton truck load) only

Agridyne - MIX 30 Liquid Feed

Springfield, Illinois 62704
Office Phone: 800-575-7585 ext. 258

Fax: 217-787-4303

Contact: Andrew Jones

Cellular Phone: 815-228-7820

E-mail: ajones@mix30.com

www.mix30.com

Corn-based, high-energy liquid feed. Can be fed free-choice, in a lick wheel feeder, or blended into a ration

Boyle Farms Fat Cow Brand Feed

27 Riley Road

Duck Hill, MS 38925

Phone: 662-417-0778, 662-230-2702

Contact: Steve or Lee Boyle

Manufacture and sale of custom ordered cattle feed, corn-based or commodity by-product feeds

Brookhaven Milling Company

219 East Congress Street

Brookhaven, MS 39601

Phone: 601-833-5121

Fax: 601-833-5144

 

Contact: Chad Vaughn or Brett Douchard

E-mail: brookhavenmill@bellsouth.net

Complete feeds mixed from commodities, medicated feeds and consumption limiters available, available bulk or bagged

Commodity Specialists Company

55 Corporate Woods, Suite 115

9300 W 110th Street

Overland Park, KS 66212

Office Phone: 800-767-4577

Fax: 913-345-0704

E-mail: prunkel@csc-world.com

Contacts: Peter Runkel, Joe Bourne, Spencer Campion, Ryan McClanahan, James Munger, J. B. Voss, Luke Brainard

www.csc-world.com

Fiber Based Feeds: Soybean hulls/soybean hull pellets, citrus pulp, beet pulp, cottonseed hulls/pellets

Mid-Protein Feeds: Corn gluten feed, corn hominy feed, cottonseed, DDG, wheat middlings

High-Protein Feeds: Corn gluten meal, soybean meal, poultry meal

CyberAg Feed Co., Inc.

P. O. Box 12707

North Kansas City, MO 64116

Office Phone: 800-892-5859

Fax: 816-421-3885

E-mail: cyberag@linkcity.org

Contact: Lee Shippee, Adam Shippee

Alfalfa pellets, alfalfa meal (bulk and sacked), corn gluten feed pellets, cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls (bulk and sacked), cottonseed hull pellets (bulk), DDG, granite grit (bulk and sacked), wheat mill feed (loose and pellets), oat feed (pellets), oyster shell (bulk and sacked), rice bran, rice mill feed, rice hulls, soybean meal, soybean hull pellets

DeBruce Feed Ingredients

4100 N Mulberry Drive

Kansas City, MO 64116

Office Phone: 800-821-5210

Contact: John Augspurger

Soybean meal, soybean hull pellets, loose soybean hulls, dried distillers grains (DDG), canola meal, whole cottonseed, cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed pellets

DeBruce Grain

445 Port Terminal Road

Rosedale, MS 38769

Office Toll Free: 877-324-7488

Office Phone: 662-759-0000

Contact: Brad Auger

Soybeans, corn, wheat, milo, soybean meal, soybean hull pellets, loose soybean hulls, dried distillers grains (DDG), canola meal, whole cottonseed, cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed pellets

FCStone Merchant Services

1001 Underwood Drive

Flowood, MS 39232

Office Phone: 402-373-4484

Cellular Phone: 402-618-4405

Fax: 402-861-2520

E-mail: travis.mlady@intlfcstone.com

Contact: Travis Mlady

Soybean hull pellets, loose soybean hulls, dried distillers grains, dried distiller grain pellets, soybean meal, soybeans, corn, corn gluten feed pellets, wheat midds, citrus pulp pellets

Gatlin Feed

147 Bogue Chitto Road SW

Bogue Chitto, MS 39629

Office Phone: 601-734-6102

Cellular Phone: 601-754-6810

Fax: 601-833-5507

E-mail: sam@gatlincorp.com

Contact: Shane Moak

Cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls, soybean hull pellets, dried distillers grain, whole grain corn, cracked corn

Hansen Mueller Grain Co.

P. O. Box 1014

Alabaster, AL 35144

Office Phone: 800-388-7894

Cellular Phone: 205-475-5783

Fax: 205-663-5107

E-mail: bran@hmgrain.com

Contact: Bran Dill

Dried ethanol distillers (gold and dark pelleted), soybean hull pellets, corn gluten feed pellets, corn screenings, corn, Scandinavian oats, Bright white Canadian oats, Canadian Re-Cleaned oats, 10% peanut pellet, 63% corn gluten meal, hi-pro distillers, and candy feed (chocolate bars). Other ingredients available upon request.

Mattox Feed Mill

Aberdeen, MS

Phone: 662-369-4546

Contact: Ed or Ben Mattox

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

Mid-South Grain and Feed Ingredients

4856 Main Street

Flora, MS 39071

Office Phone: 601-879-8311

Fax: 601-879-8751

E-mail: cliffordkinsey@att.net

Contacts: Cliff Kinsey, Bo Magoun, Larry McNair

Corn, corn screenings, corn gluten feed pellets, corn gluten meal, soybean hull pellets, soybean meal, distillers dried grains, cottonseed, cottonseed hull pellets, rice mill feed, rice bran, rice hulls, wheat midds, wheat, milo, citrus pulp pellets, peanut hull pellets, salt, phosphate, limestone

Moores Feed Mill

Pontotoc, MS

Phone: 662-488-0024

Contact: Johnny Moore

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

Neshoba County Gin

P.O. Box 326

Philadelphia, MS 39350

Phone: 601-656-3463

Contact: Willie Jackson

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn (shelled and ground), soybean meal, cottonseed meal, oats, custom mix feeds

Phillips Farms Elevator

4042 Highway 16 W

Yazoo City, MS 39194

Office Phone: 601-828-3223

Cellular Phone: 662-828-3223

Fax: 662-828-3236

E-mail: info@phillipsfarms.us

Contacts: John Phillips, Jordan Miller

Corn, wheat, soybeans

Prairie Mills Feed & Farm Supply

10111 Prairie Mills Road

Prairie, MS 39756

Phone: 662-369-6062

Contact: Steve Schrock

Commodity feeds and custom mixed feeds

Quito Gin, Inc.

24388 Hwy. 7 South

Itta Bena, MS 38941

Office Phone: 662-254-7676

Cellular Phone: 662-299-3373

Fax: 662-254-6315

E-mail: dggqgi0@yahoo.com

Contacts: Whitney Rawlings or Sally Presnell

Whole cottonseed always in stock, ready to pick up or be delivered by our trucks to your location, January through August cottonseed is ready for pick up in SW Tennessee or Itta Bena, Mississippi

Short and Miller Marketing LLC

301 South 4th Avenue

Minneapolis, MN 55415

Office Phone: 612-456-0416

Fax: 612-465-0419

E-mail:nathanthimmesch@shortandmillermarketingllc.com

Contact: Nathan Thimmesch

Purple cracked corn (enhanced amino acid and antioxidant content vs. yellow corn)

Ware Milling

Houston, MS

Phone: 662-542-3371, 662-456-9032

Contact: Gale Chrestman

Soybean hull pellets, whole cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, corn gluten feed

W. S. Scott Company

P. O. Box 165

Clinton, MS 39060

Office Phone: 601-924-1590

Fax: 601-924-8591

E-mail: ckinsey_jam1@comcast.net

Contact: Cliff Kinsey

Corn gluten feed pellets, soybean hull pellets, corn, soybean meal, salt, dicalcium phosphate, whole cottonseed, oats, wheat, wheat midds, corn screenings
 
Cotton Products
Contact Information Available Feeds

Berkley Gin

Glen Allen, MS

Phone: 662-379-1789

Contact: George King

Cotton products

Crossroads Gin

Schlater, MS

Phone: 662-658-4526

Contact: Wayne Bush

Cotton products

Delta Oil Mill

Clarksdale, MS

Phone: 662-358-4481

Contact: Scott Middleton

Cotton products

Duncan Gin

Phone: 662-265-5828

Contact: Bill Kennedy

Cotton products

Farrell Gin

Clarksdale, MS

Phone: 662-902-7164

Contact: Mark Crumpton

Cotton products

Greenwood Gin

Greenwood, MS

Phone: 662-254-7676, 662-515-5711

Contact: Ray Makamson

Cotton products

Lico Gin

Greenwood, MS

Phone: 662-453-6152, 662-458-0900, 662-453-0815

Contact: David Howard

Cotton products

Mid-Delta Cotton

Belzoni, MS

Phone: 662-247-3433

Contact: Paulette Penson

Cotton products

Quito Gin

Morgan City , MS

Phone: 662-254-7676, 662-299-3373

Contact: David Grossman

Cotton products

Schlater Gin Co.

Schlater, MS

Phone: 662-658-4803, 662-658-4500

Contact: Jay Seahorn

Cotton products

Tunica Gin

Tunica, MS

Phone: 662-363-6378

Contact: Justin Cariker

Cotton products
 
Additional Hay and Feed Source Information

Mississippi Hay Directory

Mississippi Market Bulletin

Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries Hay Directory

Arkansas Hay Producers Database

Florida Hay Suppliers

Florida-IFAS Extension Hay Directory

Georgia Cattlemen's Association Hay Directory

Georgia Farm Bureau Hay Directory

Louisiana Feed Suppliers Directory

Louisiana Hay and Feed Suppliers Directory

Louisiana Market Bulletin

Kentucky Department of Agriculture Hay Sales Directory

Missouri By-Product Feed Price Listings

Missouri Hay Market Listings

National Internet Hay Exchange

Oklahoma Hay Directories In State Out of State

Tennessee Hay Directory

Texas Department of Agriculture Hay and Grazing Hotline

Upper Midwest Haylist

USDA Farm Service Agency Hay Net

USDA Memphis Weekly Feed Report

USDA Southeast Weekly Hay Report

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