GFG Ag Services has announced several changes in its company structure, including sale of its feed division.
In a letter to its patrons, GFG said that Consumers Oil and Supply of Braymer will be the new owner of the company’s feed division, effective March 1. The sale involves the office at 614 Harris Ave. as well as the feed mill and old milk plant, also on Harris Avenue. The business will be closed on Friday and Saturday of this week to allow for product inventory and bookkeeping changes.
No changes in products are anticipated with the sale, with Purina feeds and minerals remaining the primary product line. Commodity and grain mixes will be available as always along with small seed, cover crops, fencing and equipment such as stock tanks, hay rings, etc.
Troy Smith will be the local feed division general manager in charge of sales. Current feed division employees and feed delivery truck drivers will remain as well as the current office manager.
Based in Braymer, Consumer’s Oil and Supply is an independent, farmer-owned agriculture and petroleum supply cooperative that has been in business since 1929. Justin Swindler is the manager.
Teri Batson will be grain manager of the grain department, which will now be known as GFG Inland Grain, LLC. According to the letter, grain will be taken to the south end of Trenton, where the bulk of the grain storage is now, and a new office is to be constructed there along with installation of a new truck scale, which will be ready for the fall harvest season. The grain office is currently located at 915 Shanklin Ave.
The GFG crop insurance business was purchased on Jan. 31 by Martha Roberts and Tia Griffin, who have re-located their office to 351 North Highway 65.
The GFG agronomy department will be operating as Novus Ag, LLC and will be located at 915 Shanklin Ave. Mike Batson is the manager. Novus Ag will have chemicals, crop scouting, custom application, fertilizer, Pioneer seed, seed treating and soil testing. Construction of a new chemical warehouse agronomy office north of the shop and near the scale house is also planned.
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