1981-2021 Forty Years of Feed CompouThen and Now

摘要

This January/February 2021 issue marks the fortieth anniversary of Feed Compounder.The magazine was launched by my parents, Howard and Jane Mounsey, in January 1981 although the company they set up to publish it, HGM Publications, was established a few months earlier.HGM Publications took its title from my father's initials (his middle name being Grahame). The launch represented a huge leap of faith by them, asHoward was giving up a secure job as Deputy Director General of the newly formed trade association representing the interests of the UK's agricultural supply trade sector. UKASTA, as the association was then known (today it is the AIC or Agricultural Industries Confederation) had been formed from the mergerof CAFMNA (representing compound feed manufacturers) and BASAM (representing seed and agricultural merchants).