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FeedManagement ❙ 13 combination pit and one pit exclusively for trucks. It receives most of its corn and soy by rail and can unload a 90-car train in 12 hours. It will receive 27 million bushels of corn annually, with 20 percent received by truck from farmers in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. "Truck drivers want dump and go - speed is one of our advantages," said John Brabham, Southern Alabama assistant feed mill manager, noting unload times clocking less than 7 minutes. "We also designed the pit so farmers have space to line up off the road." To accommodate commodity shipments, the site has storage capacities of 1 million bushels for corn, 4,200 tons of soy, and 2,500 pounds of DDGS. to be paramount to our success down the road and that's one of the reasons why we made the investments we did." In addition to Wayne Farms' siz- Role of nutrition moving forward With the demands of consumerdriven production, Williams feels technology will play a significant role in remaining competitive in the future. "Our ability to formulate ever-more complex feeds with less drugs and more natural products will require the kind of controls we have invested in," Williams said. "I think it's going to be IT'S ABOUT WHAT OUR customers want. November/December 2017 ❙ www.WATTAgNet.com able domestic business, 6 percent of the company's poultry products are exported to Mexico, Asia and the Middle East. ■ We know our pellet mills and hammermills aren't the best looking, but they're rock solid, and they keep running-year after year. When combined with our automation systems, they're unbeatable. Which is why there's a saying that gets tossed around a lot here: "It just runs." Give us a call to find out how we can run for you. CALIFORNIA PELLET MILL ROSKAMP CHAMPION BETA RAVEN Your Partners in Productivity www.CPM.net * 800*428*0846