Investing in the future
of Poultry Science
Our goal is to have this new facility become a flagship land-grant university mill, serving students, faculty, staff of Mississippi State, as well as the state of Mississippi and the poultry industry through high quality outputs in:
Currently, any pelleted research feed is being outsourced to Auburn University. They manufacture the feed and it is shipped to MSU for research trials. This is due to the USDA feed mill shutting down in March 2022 to do necessary repairs to their dated feed mill.
Historically, feed has been batched, bagged and hauled to USDA for pelleting and then returned to MSU. However, the government shutdown in 2019 and COVID regulations in 2020-2022, made the USDA facility inaccessible consequently hindering research, as well as the training of students.
Even when the USDA feed mill opens back at the end of 2022, MSU will remain to be limited on research, teaching, and service/outreach goals.
With Advisory Board buy-in, progress to date:
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Mississippi State University Feed Mill Advisory Board
Richard Obermeyer, Aviagen, Inc.
Dr. Bob Loar II, Cal-Maine Foods
Dr. Leonel Mejia, Cobb Vantress, Inc.
Scott Anderson, CPM
Matthew McLean, Essmueller Co.
Ben Sellers, Hayes & Stolz
Stuart Martin, Hayes & Stolz
Bryan Martin, Jesco, Inc.
Steve McLaurin, Peco Foods
Billy Perkins, Peco Foods
Brad Tipton, Pilgrims
Dr. Mark Lemons, Sanderson Farms
Darrin Poole, Sanderson Farms
Dr. Curran Gehring, Tucker Milling
John Wilson, Tyson Foods
Brad Stokke, WEM
Alan Berndtson, WEM
Tim Lease, WL Port-land
Jonathan Cowles, WL Port-land
John Franko, WL Port-land
Pete Ensch, WEM
Mississippi State Department of Poultry Science Representatives
We are grateful to the companies and individuals who have brought us one step closer to building a new feed mill.
Steve and Linda McLaurin
*All donations will be recognized on the "Honor Wall" within the new feed mill.
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