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Cal Poly Feedmill

Entrance to the Feedmill

The feedmill is yet another facility on campus that provides hands on experience to students in this particular field. At the same time, it provides low cost feed products to the animals on campus.

The construction of the new housing along Brizzolara Creek will mean a new feed mill will have to be built. However, it will still be located on campus off of Stenner Creek Road near the Cal Poly Poultry Unit. This will be a beneficial relocation because the existing feed mill is over 50 years old and new facilities will allow for more efficient production.

Casey Callaghan, the Feed Mill Manager at Cal Poly, agrees that the new facilities are going to be beneficial and says that the housing complex is overall a “good thing for Cal Poly”. New equipment will be donated by numerous industry sponsors, which will include new silos, feed bunkers, weigh stations, feed pelleting devices, etc.

The feedmill delivery truck and loading port

The feedmill and nutrition center are student run, and provide an excellent resource for students wanting to become involved in animal nutrition. It currently has eight student jobs available and requires that student employees mix and deliver all feed to the animals at the Bull Test Unit, Dairy, and various other animal units.

One of the negative impacts of the construction is that since the bull test unit will be moving about 9 miles away, the feed mill will have to transport all the feed for that unit out to Escuela Ranch instead of just moving it across the road, as they currently do.

The feedmill was built in 1950 and has supplied feed to the various animal units since then. The mill includes a small mixing facility which allows it to mix rations for various animal types such as beef, swine, equine, and sheep.

Some Feed Products the Cal Poly Feedmill supplies:

Alfalfa Hay