ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas ter County) An open house, mill tour, and pork barbecue meal attracted more than 800 dairy, swine, and poultry producers and their families to White Oak Mills recently. White Oak Mills, a poultry and livestock feed manufacturer serv ing Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, held an open house at its Elizabethtown headquarters to celebrate the completion of its recently remodeled and expanded computerized mill. White tents, weighted by attrac tive displays of White Oak Mills feed bags, straw bales and fall decor, provided a friendly, pleas ant atmosphere as agricultural industry people and While Oak Mills employees shared fellow ship. Flowers and ivy arranged in carved pumpkins decorated rows of tables in one tent, where cus tomers enjoyed a pork barbecue and dairy product meal served by White Oak Mills employees. In another tent, customers con gregated in front of appealing booths to leant of White Oak’s extensive services and products, while White Oak’s nutritionist and geneticist answered producers’ questions. Meanwhile, the com pany’s Pro Genetics division exhi bited its newest line of Pietrain and Danish Durocs and FI gilts as additional groups gathered for mill tours. A representative from Carl S. Akey, a leading animal nutrition consulting company headquar tered in Lewisburg, Ohio, also participated in the open house and discussed a new licensing agree ment, which the Akey company recently signed with White Oak Mills. Granted to only select feed manufacturing companies, the licensing agreement allows the Pennsylvania-based company to produce and market Akey premix es. White Oak Mills then passes the savings on to its customers. Open house attendees also had an opportunity to tour the mill facility from start to finish. Fol lowing White Oak’s railroad tracks, on which quality ingre dients are delivered daily, tour groups were first given a brief his tory of the 19-year-old family owned company started in Man heim, by brothers Mark and John Wagner. White Oak Mills, after 10 years of remodeling and expanding its current Elizabethtown operation, now has constructed a new feed mill to more efficiently meet its customers’ needs. Producing 180,000 tons of feed per year, White Oak Mills prides itself on Groups gathered on White Oak Mills railroad tracks to begin a tour of White Oak’s feed manufacturing facilities. BUY. SEU.TftAOE Oft RENT THROUGH THE PHONE: 717*424*1144 or 717*344*9047 White Oak Mills Holds Open House many newly developed White Oak products. Personalized Fortifica tion Blends, manufactured utiliz ing White Oak’s new premixes, is a unique vitamin and mineral pro duct balanced to match protein and grain sources on the farm. Other new products include Turbo Protein AV, which provides dairy cows with a high-quality, amino acid-balanced protein source, and Nutri-Catalyst, a rumen modulator designed to improve fermentation and digestion. Additionally, White Oak’s calf starters, formu lated to contain palatable, nutrient-rich ingredients for better intake and growth of calves, are being improved as a result of recent research by Dr. P.V. Red dy, White Oak Mills’ dairy techni cal services director. In addition to manufacturing nearly 650 feeds, concentrates, mineral premixes and specialty items created for virtually all ani mal types, White Oak Mills hand les private label manufacturing and packaging for numerous companies. Tour guides also emphasized White Oak’s dedication to quality control standards, which are prac ticed throughout the manufactur ing plant Mill management pur chasing and laboratory personnel closely coordinate quality control, with communications, education, documentation and a set of care fully written procedures proving vital to the program’s success. First White Oak' Mills’ purchas ing department implements qual ity control standards so to guaran tee that only the finest ingredients are used to manufacture White Oak products. Then, before feed ingredients are unloaded from incoming railcars or trucks, well trained mill receivers enforce the ingredient standard program through proper inspection, sam pling and testing of each ingredient. Amidst rows of White Oak Mills’ bagged products, tour groups observed how premixes such as White Oak Mills’ Person alized Fortification Blends are fine-tuned and customized, com plete with the producers’ own tags, to complement each produc er’s constantly changing needs. Akey premixes also maximize the premix manufacturing plant White Oak Mills’ expansion provides the company with addi tional manufacturing capabilities. Pelleted pig starters, prestarters and other specialty products are created with its new pellet mill, while high molasses horse and textured calf feeds are now manu factured with its new Tender Blender, specially designed to gently coat and process feeds for baby calves. More efficient than the older manufacturing facility. White Oak’s new mill utilizes a compu- Having been renovated and expanded for 10 years, White Oak’s feed facility Includes a new truck load-out facility, left, pellet mill, and a mineral premixer to better meet Its customer’s individual needs. 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