An independent Alberta farm supply company is building three $750,000 fertilizer-blending facilities.
“There’s a lot of competition out there and we have to show our commitment to farmers,” said Brent McIndoe, of Camrose Crop Management Services in Camrose, part of the Andrukow Farm Group that is building the three fertilizer blending facilities in Camrose, Ryley and Viking.
“This is a way of showing commitment to farmers,” said Rick McNalley of Andrukow Farm Group in Ryley.
Each 32-metre-high blending facility will have 250 tonnes of overhead storage with two 13 tonne blenders to load farmers’ fertilizer in minutes. Long gone are the days when farmers ordered a generic fertilizer from the dealer. Now each load of fertilizer is blended specifically for each field and crop, said McNalley.
Spending money for better equipment speeds up the time it takes to load fertilizer and it shows farmers that the Andrukow Farm Group is in business for the long term, said McNalley.
“We thought it would be encouraging to farmers to know people haven’t given up on them.”
