818—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 9,1984
Scott High, son of the firm’s founder, manages the
fabricating department. About 95 percent of the parts
needed for the manufacture of Feedmobile’s mobile
processing units are made at the firm's headquarters north of
Lititz on Route 501.
‘*6 - ie and stationary
mills, Sam High provides on-farm milling service with this unit
operating as Modern Milling Company.
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According to High, the Tex
tureator is the only feed processing
mill capable of producing even
textured ear com in one step.
Although Feedmobile is best
known as a manufacturer of
mobile processing units, the firm’s
“Batch-Maker” offers the same
capability in a stationary model.
No stranger to the business of
mobile feed processing, High
began his career in 1948 as a test
operator for businessman Irl
Daffin, originator of the Feed
mobile concept.
In 1961 High formed Modern
Milling Company and began
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BY JACK HUBLEY
LITITZ Most of the tune,
defining a goal is much easier than
figuring out how to get there. So it
was with the Lititz-based firm of
Feedmobile Inc., when they set out
to find a more efficient way of
processing corn for livestock feed.
The goal was easy to visualize: a
feed processed from ear com
composed of kernel, cob and husk
pieces of uniform size. Sounds
simple enough, but the problem
lies with trying to process
materials of vastly different
densities.
“Five years ago, you used a
hammer mill,” says sales
representative Larry Weaver,
“but when you used the proper
screen for cob texture, you turned
the kernels to dust.
“During the past few years,
using two corrugated rollers has
been popular for shelled com and
small grains, but running the cobs
through these rollers results in
large pieces of flattened cob, and
this causes feed separation,”
observes Weaver.
Now, after two years of
development and a substantial
capital investment, Feedmobile’s
president Sam High feels he has
the answer to the dilemma.
The answer is the company’s
new “Textureater”, a mill that
separates the corn kernels from
the cobs and husks, and grinds
these components separately,
processing kernels in a roller
mill,and cobs and husks in a
hammer mill. The result is feed of
uniform texture.
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president of Feedmobile Inc., shbws how his
firm’s “Textureator” processing system yields ear corn feed
of uniform size.
processing feed for Lancaster
County fanners, adding a Feed
mobile service center in 1964.
Five years later, High began
manufacturing the mobile units,
purchasing the Feedmobile
trademark from a Minnesota
based firm that had acquired
Feedmobile from Baffin during the
interim years when Sam was
grinding feed. Under the name of
Feedmobile Inc., Sam High finally
found himself at the helm of the
company he had worked for
during its fledgling years.
At its Lititz manufacturing
facility, the firm is capable of
building two new units a month,
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along with the rebuilding and
updating of two units already in
service. In addition to the this
segment of the business, High still
maintains his Modem Milling
Company, and stocks a complete
line of Feedmobile parts for his
customers-of which there hardly
seems to be a shortage.
High estimates that the 5,000
mobile and stationary units
operating in the U.S. and Canada
process about 500,000 tons of feed
each week. Lancaster County
currently has 42 units, and Sam
doesn’t hesitate to credit the
Amish community for Feed-
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