Agway Feed Mill - 3
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area. Fortunately, numerous feed mills still exist, and one such
mill that still sees frequent service is the former Agway Mill in
Bernardston, MA, along the ex- Boston & Maine Conn River Line.
The Bernardston mill [1-4] was originally built in 1980 by
Agway, a name synonymous with agricultural products. Like
many of the once-common agricultural names in this region,
the mill has changed hands and now goes by the name Feed
Commodities, but one look at the mill’s faded white paint
and rusted feed bin, and the Agway ancestry is clearly evi-
dent. Today as it did back in 1980, the facility receives inbound
loads of feed and fertilizer by rail that are unloaded in the
car unloading shed and
stored in the silos before
being blended and dis-
tributed by trucks to
local farms in northern
Massachusetts and south-
ern Vermont.
Main structure
Modeling this mill was
more challenging than
I initially anticipated,
but ultimately the effort
resulted in a unique
model that certainly
captures the look of the
4. South Side of
Bernardston Mill Photo
circa 1991, courtesy of
Bill Feindel.
MRH-Sep 2014
