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But we’re not going to recommend our customers feed corn, either.”
Some local feed companies are still assessing the problem.
“I haven’t heard any hard facts to substantiate the scare,” said Mel Whiteley, manager of McKimmey’s Feed in Leesburg. “We are still compiling information about it. We haven’t made a decision as far as changing our feeds. But we are alerting our customers to the problem and offering them alternatives to com.”
Tri-County Feed in Marshall, which buys all of its com from Lancaster County, Pa., has also made no changes because of the disease.
“I feel that the sources where we get our grain from are safe," says Bill Jackson, owner of Tri-County Feed. “We are keeping abreast of the problem, but are not changing anything we are doing with our feeds at present. If there is a problem with com I think the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services should be the ones informing us of what to do.”
Last week the Southern States Co. of Richmond announced it would stop using com in its commercial horse feeds in response to the problem of moldy com poisoning reported in North Carolina and southern Virginia. The company said it would substitute oats and barley for the com in its feeds.
Also last week Ralston-Purina Feed Co. of St. Louis, Mo., announced it would use new com supplies from areas known to be safe from the threat of the disease.
“Any large commercial feed producer should definitely be concerned about moldy com poisoning since there is no means of predicting what samples of com might have the disease,” said Dr. Bill Ley, assistant professor of
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