MCFLEEG FEEDS

The new 350-tpd feed mill not far from Interstate 29 on the outskirts of Watertown, SD is the property of a feed company that has undergone several transformations. When it started up in 1976, McFleeg Feeds of South Dakota was strictly an animal nutrition company. The company formulated swine and poultry feeds, had them toll-milled wherever it could, and distributed the feed to customers. ("McFleeg" is a combination taken from the last names of the company's two founders - Dr. Richard McCullough and Boyd Fleeger - says Feed Mill Manager Harlan Eickholt.) To gain better control of its products, McFleeg purchased and upgraded a feed mill in Bowdle, SD, a Missouri River town in the north-central part of the state. That mill was destroyed in a fire in 1997. The company went back to toll milling after that, but it wasn't a satisfactory solution. "We looked at our available options," Eickholt says. "Only a limited number of facilities could handle toll milling for us, and there weren't a lot..

Also known as: McFleeg Feeds Inc.

Primary location: Watertown United States