A AUD$15 million stock feed production facility is being built in Lang Lang using state of the art technology with the aim to fast-track Victorian-based Irwin Stockfeed's national expansion.
Research and planning for the feed mill was started in 2008, with the actual construction of the 65th feed mill beginning in 2012. The feed production facility is expected to be completely operational by June this year.
Set to be the most modern facility in southern Australia, Peter Lowry, sales manager for Irwin Stock feed, said the company were preparing to enter a major growth phase.
"Currently the business is at full capacity and the only way to go is to grow," said Lowry.
"The vision was that this site was pinpointed as a major growth area for the company."
The expansion will allow the company to develop its products from ruminant feeds including grain, grain mixes, protein meals and pellets to include more specialised products to suit farm production needs.
"It will enable us to expand our customer base and we will also be able to tap into contract milling for other companies," Lowry added.
It is expected that 30-40 jobs will be created as a result of the expansion, with hopes that the increased productivity will expand on to the national milling market.
William Shakespeare wrote "to thine own self be true" - and for him that apparently included dodging taxes and hoarding grain.
Research shows that Shakespeare wasn't just a celebrated playwright and actor, he was a ruthless businessman who dabbled in money-lending and grew wealthy during a famine by price-gouging hungry neighbours.
This side of the merchant has gradually been whitewashed from history by complicit biographers who prefer to focus on his artistic achievements, say researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales.
"Shakespeare the grain-hoarder has been redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be born," says the academic paper due to be delivered at the Hay literary festival in Wales in May.
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| A AUD$15 million stock feed production facility located at Lang Lang, is being built using state of the art technology |
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