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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-03-11, Page 24cad 4 Paye 6A Times -Advocate, March 1 1 , 1987 gin US (The Emphasis is on Service and Fair Prices) - Crop production specialist - 3 dry blender locations - Hensall, Seaforth, Zurich - 5 terragators for custom application of 28% and fluid blenders and acid fertilizer - 2 Loral Air Flow dry fertilizer spreader units - 4, 5 and 8 ton spreaders - Fluid blends fertilizer - 5 Delivery trucks - Bagged fertilizer - 12 tool bar applicators - NH' - 47 nurse wagons HENSALL DISTRICT COOPERATIVE Hensall 62-3002 New Watts Number 1-800-265-5190 Zurich Seaforth Brucefield 236.4393 527-0770 482-982 Hesston 66 Series Tractors - 45-70 PTO HP O Hesston Utility Tractors tackle more jobs more economically! New Fiat diesel engines provide higher torque reserve and lower fuel consumption to tackle more jobs more economically! 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Exeter 235-2121 Sales and Service Since 1932 • Dashwood 237-3242 • Hensall Co -Op to celebrate 50 years Ilensall District Co -Operative celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Fifty years of farmer co- operation, trust and dedication has built the co-op• into one of the most successful farmer -owned Co- operatives in the province of Ontario. Hensall Co -Op has built its business - support on a number of basic prin- ciples including good services, good facilities, quality products, honest weights and fair prices and grades -for all customers. In addition, profits are _returned to -member farmers- As a result the farmer -owned ('o -Op now has over 2.5 million dollars equity in the company. Farmers Working Together con- tinues to be the slogan as high volumes of business are necessary to generate operating efficiencies and to help create • marketing and buying opportunities. A number of events are being planned throughout 1987 to commem- morale Ilensall Co-Op•s 50 years of serving farmers of a wide area sur- rounding Hensall • Farm co-operatives started in a very small way and the operation at Hensall was no exception. In Ontario, co-operatives were almost non- existent until the 1920's and were then known as Farm Buying Clubs. They were organized to supply their members with coal. twine, fertilizer etc. on an "off -car" basis. In 19:3f,'a group of farmers in this area decided to establish a fertilizer grain pit and large grain shed were in stalled at the north end of the mill in 1972. The next year power for the miller grinder and mixers was in- creased and grain storage capacity at the north feed bulk storage improv- ed at the west end. As part of the overall improvement of bean facilities at Hensall new bulk handling bins were installed and a new store, office and warehouse building erected in 1974. A major addition to the Hensall elevators was made in October; 1974 with the erection of seven silos and a 5.000 bushel per hour receiving unit with hydraulic truck hoist. The major achievement of 1975 was the opening of the substantial in- crease to grain operations. Total storage for grain and beans in the Ilensall elevator had reached 700,000 bushels which included star bins for storing wet grain for drying. Unloading capacity totalled -7,000 bushels per hour and drying -capabili- ty was 2,000 bushels per hour. October 1977 brought approval of the board to proceed with a liquid fer- tilizer plant in Hensall. Recent achievements were opening the lumber business in Zurich in 1980. new pellet mill in Zurich in 1983, star- ting into the propane business in Hen- sall the same year and purchase of the Seaforth Co -Op in 1984. Sales for the year 1986 reached a record high of $10 million with total assets in excess of $11 million. mixings a ton r tensalt; beside the—`lenibers_equity now stands at $2,670,010. The Co -Op now employs 70 full-time workers. After an unsuccessful $1,000,000 bid to purchase the 425.000 -bushel Seaforth location of the former On- tario Bean Growers' Co-op, the Hen- sall Co-op built a 5,000 -bushel per hour receiving facility northeast of Seaforth at a cost of $115,000. Over 400,000 bushels of corn and beans from the 1986 harvest were received at this -site. Equipment for liquid fertilizer, propane and petrol was also purchased. Additional propane and petrol tanks and equipment and new elevator equipment were acquired at Hensall. The W.G. Hayter elevator at Var- na was leased in September for one year. Producer support will be the determining factor in future decisions on this facility. Members approved a resolution to declare a 1.5 percent patronage divi- dend to dispense $360,000 of the year's profit on member purchases and grain and bean sales to the elevators. The balance will be retained to im- prove members' equity. General manager Earl Wagner says the aim of the Co -Op is to con- tinue to improve services for the next 50 years. Mac Stewart of Seaforth is presi- dent of the board of directors, vice- president is Barry Taylor. Varna and railroad track. After operating this mixing station for two. years. a Co-Opertive Com-, pany was formed in 1939 with a charter under the- name of South Huron Farmers Co -Operative with Albert llendrick as the first president. The -profit and loss statement of 1939 shows total sales of $17,2551.77 and a net saving of $1,471.12. In 1946 the company was reorganiz- ed and the Ilensall District Co - Operative came into being. John Armstrong headed the first board of directors and total sales for the year were $69,7:38.45 with net savings totall- ing $5,598.:33. The year 1948 was another impor- tant one with the purchase of the Zurich. Flour Mill and entry into the petroleum products business. In 1956. the Brucefield mill was pur- chased and .a new bulk fertilizer building was erected in Hensall in 1959. The present feed mill at Zurich was officially opened in February of 1962 and the E.L. Mickle and Son grain elevator was purchased in 1968. This move into grain handling was a major step for the Hensall Co -Op and created many problems and many satisfactions. The capacity at purchase time was 160.000 bushels and since has been increased -to about 400,000 bushels. Because of the design of the Zurich mitl, grain handling -became. inc_reas- _- ingly more complex as feed demand the secretary is -John_Campbell. increased to improve this situation a Bayfield. 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