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Location: CTX | This is the reply I got from Purina, and it shows the mills that make cattle feed and horse feed in the same mill:
Dijanne,
Thanks for your inquiry. We understand the concern about ionophores in horse feed. Your product is being made in the Fort Worth, TX plant. We have separate manufacturing systems for the horse and cattle feed at this location. The plant in Fort Worth uses a physical segregation and advanced systems and processes are in place to guard against cross contamination.
The locations where we make cattle feed as well as the horse feed are located in:
Guilderland, NY (GNY)
Fort Worth, TX (FTW)
Statesville, NC (STA)
Gainesville, GA (GNS)
Gonzales, TX (GOZ)
For all other plants, no ionophores are being used.
The date code stamp along the bottom will when and where it was made. You should have a sequence of Year/Month/Day/Plant/Shift.
We have high quality standards at all of our manufacturing mills. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if you have any additional questions or concerns you wish to have addressed.
Have a great day!
Beverly
Beverly Fischer | Purina Animal Nutrition, LLC.
Manager, Customer Operations – Consumer|www.purinamills.com
Toll Free: 1-800-227-8941 | Fax: 636-742-6170
So, I will be checking the labels before buying! |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | cranky B4 10am - 2015-04-02 10:27 PM This is the reply I got from Purina, and it shows the mills that make cattle feed and horse feed in the same mill:
Dijanne,
Thanks for your inquiry. We understand the concern about ionophores in horse feed. Your product is being made in the Fort Worth, TX plant. We have separate manufacturing systems for the horse and cattle feed at this location. The plant in Fort Worth uses a physical segregation and advanced systems and processes are in place to guard against cross contamination.
The locations where we make cattle feed as well as the horse feed are located in:
Guilderland, NY (GNY )
Fort Worth, TX (FTW )
Statesville, NC (STA )
Gainesville, GA (GNS )
Gonzales, TX (GOZ )
For all other plants, no ionophores are being used.
The date code stamp along the bottom will when and where it was made. You should have a sequence of Year/Month/Day/Plant/Shift.
We have high quality standards at all of our manufacturing mills. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if you have any additional questions or concerns you wish to have addressed.
Have a great day!
Beverly
Beverly Fischer | Purina Animal Nutrition, LLC.
Manager, Customer Operations – Consumer| www.purinamills.com
Toll Free: 1-800-227-8941 | Fax: 636-742-6170
So, I will be checking the labels before buying!
Thank you for posting that. I was nervous as I spent a lot of time on the phone with local Purina reps and the main company. I was told the Purina I buy here in South Dakota was from an Ionophore free facility. Glad to see they were telling me the truth. I would imagine it won't be long and the facilities listed will also be ionophore free. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | mattslilwonder - 2015-04-03 8:43 AM what is TSC?
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run n rate - 2015-04-02 5:28 PM rachellyn80 - 2015-04-03 12:54 PM Dinero10 - 2015-04-02 2:44 PM I have been told that the Purina horses feed that comes from St. Joe, MO is Ionophore free and has been for 20 yrs. If the tag says stj and then numbers it is safe. The manager at our local coop just told me. The purina from kansas City is not.
In researching last night - Blue Bonnet feeds from Ardmore is clean. Does everyone agree on this? As I can go buy Purina, or Blue Bonnet which I would have access too.
For what you are experiencing with your boy I would go with Blue Bonnet Omega Force. My horses are responding well to it and it's very cost effective. It's more per bag, but you feed much less than you do any of the other feeds mentioned. It's designed to help with digestive issues. I'm only feeding 8# a day to the one that's getting the most. Wait, I thought Purina was listed on the safe horse feeds on the facebook page "is my horse feed safe..." Have a friend in Florida that is feeding Ultium....
Yes, when that list was made, we were going off of what the feed companies were saying. Many obviously decided Lasacoid didn't count. It's pretty tough to nail these companies down and get truthful answers. They are right up there with lawyers and politicians when it comes to avoiding telling the truth. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | daisycake123 - 2015-04-02 8:12 PM I was informed that blue seal plant i think in pa the add the cattle additives out side the horse plant, it is not mixed where it could come in contact at any time with horse feed. My feed rep told me this and i dont know about any of the rest. Also triple crown and nutrena come from some of the same plants in the south. Dont know,about southern states feed. I dont know one line ends and other begins.
Southern States is Triple Crown. They co-op their feed so it's made all over the place...no consistency. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | cranky B4 10am - 2015-04-02 10:27 PM This is the reply I got from Purina, and it shows the mills that make cattle feed and horse feed in the same mill:
Dijanne,
Thanks for your inquiry. We understand the concern about ionophores in horse feed. Your product is being made in the Fort Worth, TX plant. We have separate manufacturing systems for the horse and cattle feed at this location. The plant in Fort Worth uses a physical segregation and advanced systems and processes are in place to guard against cross contamination.
The locations where we make cattle feed as well as the horse feed are located in:
Guilderland, NY (GNY )
Fort Worth, TX (FTW )
Statesville, NC (STA )
Gainesville, GA (GNS )
Gonzales, TX (GOZ )
For all other plants, no ionophores are being used.
The date code stamp along the bottom will when and where it was made. You should have a sequence of Year/Month/Day/Plant/Shift.
We have high quality standards at all of our manufacturing mills. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if you have any additional questions or concerns you wish to have addressed.
Have a great day!
Beverly
Beverly Fischer | Purina Animal Nutrition, LLC.
Manager, Customer Operations – Consumer| www.purinamills.com
Toll Free: 1-800-227-8941 | Fax: 636-742-6170
So, I will be checking the labels before buying!
I would love it if we could get some people that live in these areas to go and take a tour of these facilities. We need to educate ourselves on the processes and know what to look for before we go though. I'm sure there's plenty of smoke and mirrors in some of these "separate" facilities. My greatest concern is the reliability of the workers involved. The fact that a catastrophic mistake is possible at any time is very real. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | So what do I feed? In my area, it's Nutrena or Purina. I tried moving them all to oats last year and they looked terrible.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | CanCan - 2015-04-03 10:10 AM So what do I feed? In my area, it's Nutrena or Purina. I tried moving them all to oats last year and they looked terrible.
I put 2 of mine on alfalfa and rice bran and they look so great, I'm switching everyone to it. Pellets, cubes, bales, chaffhay...there are several options for the alfalfa part, and as long as the rice bran is stabilized you're good because of the calcium in the alfalfa, so you don't have to buy the expensive stuff that's calcium balanced for horses. I can soak for the old horses--the pellets soak really fast. |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | CanCan - 2015-04-03 10:10 AM So what do I feed? In my area, it's Nutrena or Purina. I tried moving them all to oats last year and they looked terrible.
Not all Purina and not all Nutrena is bad. You need to check your numbers to see which plant yours comes from. |
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| CYA Ranch - 2015-04-03 5:21 AM
cranky B4 10am - 2015-04-02 10:27 PM This is the reply I got from Purina, and it shows the mills that make cattle feed and horse feed in the same mill:
Dijanne,
Thanks for your inquiry. We understand the concern about ionophores in horse feed. Your product is being made in the Fort Worth, TX plant. We have separate manufacturing systems for the horse and cattle feed at this location. The plant in Fort Worth uses a physical segregation and advanced systems and processes are in place to guard against cross contamination.
The locations where we make cattle feed as well as the horse feed are located in:
Guilderland, NY (GNY )
Fort Worth, TX (FTW )
Statesville, NC (STA )
Gainesville, GA (GNS )
Gonzales, TX (GOZ )
For all other plants, no ionophores are being used.
The date code stamp along the bottom will when and where it was made. You should have a sequence of Year/Month/Day/Plant/Shift.
We have high quality standards at all of our manufacturing mills. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if you have any additional questions or concerns you wish to have addressed.
Have a great day!
Beverly
Beverly Fischer | Purina Animal Nutrition, LLC.
Manager, Customer Operations – Consumer| www.purinamills.com
Toll Free: 1-800-227-8941 | Fax: 636-742-6170
So, I will be checking the labels before buying!
Just looked on my ultium bag and my feed is made in TRL wherever that is. Lol but it's not on the list of cattle feed mills. Lol |
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| Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one??? |
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| rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 8:59 AM
Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one???
I would just call. Probably best way. |
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| FLITASTIC - 2015-04-03 11:03 AM
rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 8:59 AM
Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one???
I would just call. Probably best way.
I was looking for the number just now and all I can find is Purina mills in that city. I think the TSC guy was mixed up. |
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| Yea. It's probably the same place. Thy call it the purina mill. Call and ask them if they ship to our TSC. |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 11:08 AM FLITASTIC - 2015-04-03 11:03 AM rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 8:59 AM Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one??? I would just call. Probably best way. I was looking for the number just now and all I can find is Purina mills in that city. I think the TSC guy was mixed up.
Not saying this is the case but you would be surprised at the mills that make feed for other mills or companies. Or private label feeds that have their own bag and formula that are made at different places pending orders for the area. |
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| Yes, it didn't even cross my mind that the 2 would be made at the same place! I will give them a call
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | TurnLane - 2015-04-03 10:36 AM CanCan - 2015-04-03 10:10 AM So what do I feed? In my area, it's Nutrena or Purina. I tried moving them all to oats last year and they looked terrible.
Not all Purina and not all Nutrena is bad. You need to check your numbers to see which plant yours comes from.
This. With phone calls and internet search and questions I found out that the Nutrena I had been feeding came from a medicated mill. The Purina I can get comes from a medicated FREE mill. Woody's is available to me with some travel time and I feed that to one of my horses. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 10:59 AM Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one???
I'm in NE South Dakota and I emailed Nutrena with the lot numbers off my bags. The stuff I can get here is from New Richland, MN where they run medicated feed through the same lines.
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Location: Here | TurnLane - 2015-04-03 11:20 AM rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 11:08 AM FLITASTIC - 2015-04-03 11:03 AM rodeocr8zy - 2015-04-03 8:59 AM Just called Tractor Supply where I get my SafeChoice from, asked him what mill their Nutrena comes from and he immediately said "Inner Grove" and didn't think twice about it. So, where or how do I find out if the mill in Inner Grove Heights, MN is a safe one??? I would just call. Probably best way. I was looking for the number just now and all I can find is Purina mills in that city. I think the TSC guy was mixed up.
This is what I learned yesterday as well, that ADM has been outsourcing a lot of their feed... So who knows anymore where feed comes from. IT sure does explain to me why plain grains got so nasty several years ago... |
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