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Drying up: Midwest drought, corn prices having impact on poultry industry
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David Loudermilk, right, opens the bottom of a rail car to unload corn at the Fieldale silo in Baldwin. With Loudermilk is Jonathan Grant. - photo by Tom Reed
Georgia, struggling with a drought of its own, also has to worry about earth-parched conditions in other states, particularly the Corn Belt states of the Midwest. “Ninety-eight percent of our corn comes from the Midwest,” said Emory Forrester, director of feed milling and feed delivery for Baldwin-based Fieldale Farms. “We don’t get much Georgia corn because it’s ... not grown that in-depth in Georgia.”