Feedmix Expand Yorkshire On-Farm Mixing Operation
03/03/05

Specialist home mixers, Feedmix Ltd, a company within the Harbro Group, are expanding their operation in Yorkshire and the East of England following the purchase of the long-established North Yorkshire Mill and Mix business from Joe McKitten.

The acquisition increases the Feedmix fleet of Feedmobiles to six covering an area from Durham in the north through Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire to East Anglia in the south, in addition to ten operating in Scotland. Feedmix is delighted that Ray Hughes is staying on as operator to provide continuity of service.

Feedmix designs and manufactures the Feedmobiles at their own engineering works in Aberdeenshire as well as providing a mobile feed mixing service right down the east of the country.

"We are committed to providing livestock farmers with a superior on-farm mixing service, enabling them to utilise home-grown grain, with technical support being provided by Harbro," said Feedmix managing director, George McCombie.

"With the ever-increasing cost of moving grain off the farm and hauling in compound feeds, it makes economic sense to have home-grown grain processed on the farm using our Feedmobile service."

Feedmix are the acknowledged leaders in the field and have been providing mobile grain treatment services in Scotland for many years and in Yorkshire since 1999.

The service has been further enhanced with the appointment of Dr Kevin Stickney, who has wide experience of home mixing and ration formulation over many years, as pig product manager with Harbro, to augment the sales and advisory service provided by regional sales manager, Lance Gladstone, and his team based at Howden.

"Kevin is highly respected by pig farmers for his expertise in pig nutrition and is a real asset to our technical team," says Lance. "His experience in home-mixing will be particularly valuable."

Feedmix works closely with Harbro who provide protein supplements and minerals for home-mixed rations to enable farmers to maximise production from their stock.