Current Events Accelerating Ag Retail Consolidation

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The merger between White River Cooperative and Premier Ag Co-Op Inc. is official, with the company now known as Premier Companies.

Will form a new Retail Grain Unit called Apex Grain Marketing, which will purchase the facility from Consolidated Grain and Barge Co.

The CropLife 100 retailer in Michigan will bring new sustainability and profitability opportunities to local growers.

Significant year-over-year earnings growth in all business segments including Energy, Ag, and Nitrogen Production.

$25,000 top prize to be given for the most innovative idea.

Overall, the nation’s top ag retailers believe that 2021 will be a “great year” for agriculture when it’s all said and done, according to our recent survey.

Jim Spradlin, GROWMARK’s CEO since September 2014, has announced to the GROWMARK Board of Directors his intent to retire effective February 28, 2022.

At the midpoint of 2021, CropLife 100 ag retailers are relatively optimistic that this growing season will have a “more normal” path forward.

Nutrien Ag Solutions delivered a record $109 million in adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2021.

An assessment of the circumstances leading to a dust explosion is underway at the Jefferson, IA, facility.

The CropLife 100 cooperative and Castlen Enterprises have announced significant progress on a new large-scale warehouse distribution center in Owensboro, KY.

In the latest CropLife 100 ranking, eight companies are headquartered in Illinois — the third most of any state.

Steve Becraft, the cooperative’s COO, will assume the President and CEO role on July 1, 2021, following the retirement of Jeff Stroburg.

This expansion includes a new 7,500-ton dry fertilizer building equipped with a 24-ton blender and a NTEP certified Auto-Batch blending system.

Strategy is to implement an alternative to traditional mergers and acquisitions for local cooperatives and independent businesses.

Here are a dozen deals that have most impacted the ag retail landscape since 2016.

Although it may seem odd from a mathematics standpoint, more ag retailers are finding the consolidation math does add up — for them.