Feedstuffs: History, Farm Progress Profile, Feed Industry Coverage and Editors
Profile updated November 2026
Feedstuffs has been the business newspaper of the animal feed and agribusiness world since 1929. Born at the Minneapolis company that published the famous Northwestern Miller, it called itself The Weekly Newspaper for Agribusiness and became required reading for feed manufacturers, nutritionists and grain traders. Here is its history, its present form, what it covers and its editors.
| Founded | 1929; the FEEDSTUFFS trademark was filed Oct. 18, 1929 |
|---|---|
| Original publisher | The Miller Publishing Company, Minneapolis |
| Slogan | The Weekly Newspaper for Agribusiness |
| Current publisher | Farm Progress livestock group |
| Format | Digital news, newsletters and monthly ingredient price listings |
| Editor | Sarah Muirhead |
| Official website | Feedstuffs.com |
History of Feedstuffs
The Miller Publishing Company of Minneapolis, already known for The Northwestern Miller, the leading trade journal of the flour milling industry, registered the Feedstuffs name as a weekly newspaper in October 1929. As commercial livestock feed became an industry of its own, Feedstuffs covered feed mills, ingredient markets, nutrition research and regulation.
Miller Publishing built a family of agribusiness titles around it, including Feedlot Management, Farm Store Merchandising and Equipment World supplements. The company's Washington bureau, whose chief also wrote for Feedstuffs, gave the paper strong policy coverage. Miller Publishing later became part of the American Broadcasting Company's publishing division and, in 1983, joined Farm Progress in ABC's agricultural group.
Through later corporate owners, including Penton Agriculture in St. Charles, Illinois, Feedstuffs stayed with Farm Progress. In 2021 it moved into the digital space along with sister livestock titles BEEF and National Hog Farmer.
Feedstuffs Today
Feedstuffs now publishes online and through newsletters as part of the Farm Progress livestock team, which shares editors with BEEF and National Hog Farmer. Its exclusive monthly Feedstuffs Ingredient Prices listings remain a signature product, with editions such as July 2026.
Farm Progress operates within Informa, whose agricultural portfolio also includes the Farm Progress Show.
What Feedstuffs Is Publishing Now
Ingredient markets
Exclusive monthly ingredient price listings and market analysis for grains, proteins and byproducts.
Animal nutrition and science
Research on nutrition, feed additives, animal health and sustainability across poultry, swine, dairy and beef.
Agribusiness and policy
Feed industry company news, mergers, trade and regulatory coverage, plus obituaries and tributes to industry veterans.
Feedstuffs Editors and Staff
The Farm Progress livestock team behind Feedstuffs includes:
- Sarah Muirhead - Editor, Feedstuffs; Brand Management Director - Livestock
- Ann Hess - Content Producer, Livestock Team
- Kristin Bakker - Digital Content Specialist
- Joshua Baethge - Policy Editor
Who Reads Feedstuffs
Readers are feed manufacturers, nutritionists, integrators, ingredient suppliers and livestock producers. Feed is the largest cost in most livestock operations, and the $195.8 billion in 2021 U.S. animal receipts tracked by USDA's Economic Research Service all depends on it.
The feed business runs on decimals, and a misplaced one can be expensive. For relief from protein premiums and rail rates, farm.FM publishes farm satire and farm humor about agribusiness, plus ranch humor for the feedlot side of the industry. Its farm jokes are calculated on a dry-matter basis, roughly.
Part newsroom, part radio dial, farm.FM bills itself as America's first satirical farm site and plays Tractor Tunes, its country music for farmers. Browse a farm.FM writer's back catalog to see the style.
Feedstuffs Sources and Agriculture Authority Links
- Justia: Miller Publishing Company trademarks - the 1929 FEEDSTUFFS registration and sister titles.
- Feedstuffs: Kopperud remembered - history of the paper's Washington bureau.
- Farm Progress: Livestock editorial team - the editors shared by Feedstuffs, BEEF and National Hog Farmer.
- USDA ERS: Animal cash receipts - the livestock economy feed supports.
- USDA ERS Farm Income and Wealth Statistics - production expenses, including feed.
Feedstuffs FAQ
When was Feedstuffs founded?
Feedstuffs dates to 1929, when The Miller Publishing Company of Minneapolis registered it as a weekly newspaper.
Who publishes Feedstuffs?
Farm Progress publishes Feedstuffs as part of its livestock group.
Who is the editor of Feedstuffs?
Sarah Muirhead edits Feedstuffs and directs Farm Progress's livestock brands.
What are Feedstuffs Ingredient Prices?
Exclusive monthly listings of feed ingredient prices published by Feedstuffs.
Nearly a century after its first issue, Feedstuffs still tells the feed and agribusiness world what ingredients cost and what is changing in animal nutrition.