Sustaining Sponsor Spotlight: Big K Mills, Inc.

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association is pleased to feature our Sustaining Sponsors in the 2021 Spotlight Series. This week, the focus is on Bronze Sponsor: Big K Mills, Inc.

Location (Main Headquarters): Fort Recovery, OH

Year started: 1969

Number of employees: 12

Number of facilities: 1

Type of services offered: Complete line of livestock feed, for commercial and backyard producers.

Company history: Tom Zitter purchased the facility in 1969 to have a local family run feed mill. Tom Staugler then added the steam flaker to product quality local steam flaked grains. Tom Staugler Jr. is now the 3rd generation and is looking forward to the future and ensuring that Big K Mills, Inc. continues to be a family run feed mill.

How has your company changed over the years? We have morphed as the livestock industry has changed in the last 52 years.

How do you see your company growing in the future? Finding a niche market is part of the key.  Also working with producers to help them increase their profitability in todays market is very important.   

How has OABA helped your business or the agribusiness industry? OABA has been a stanch defender of the ag industry against unnecessary and intrusive legislation from the government and anti-agriculture groups.  It has also been one of the agricultures best advocates!   

Anything else you would like to share: If you can raise it we can feed it. 

Interested in becoming a Sustaining Sponsor in 2022? 

Click here to learn more about the program or contact Nicole Volk at nvolk@oaba.net. Sustaining sponsors will automatically be promoted as such at all 2022 OABA events and will not be approached for sponsorship opportunities throughout the year. 

Note that because the OABA Educational Trust is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, sponsorships related to this trust are separate from OABA.