Crowfoot Ag Solutions cuts ribbon

Times Reporter    

 

As agriculture increases its growth, the demand for retail will rise and more facilities need to be opened.  

Crowfoot Ag Solutions has opened a state-of–the-art cement dome facility east of Strathmore that will operate to meet the farmer’s needs in the Wheatland County area.

Co-founders of Crowfoot Ag Solutions, Andy and Christina Stender are really honoured to open an ag retail facility like this to be able to meet the community’s needs.

“The reason we chose the concrete dome concept is it provides the ability to have the ultimate product safety for our customers,” said Stender. “We can store not only a lot of product, but it allows us good safe storage so the quality product (on the farmers end) … do not have any issues with their supply.”

With the concrete dome concept, it gives a new outlook for farmers and where they want to receive their product.

“We are not going to run out of product and rely on a truck to come two (or) three times a day to fill the plant. The speed of the plant both on receiving the product from the manufacturers to customers is as fast or twice as fast as any of (the) competitors,” he said.

Stender and his family started the company. There is a long-line of farming history in the family.

“My dad came from a farm in Saskatchewan and years ago moved out to Calgary … we always had the farming roots in us,” said Stender.

As a result of the farming roots, Stender met his wife Christina who is originally from Ontario where she went to the University of Guelph.

“She moved out to Strathmore and we ended up meeting and together we drove the passion and built the idea in an attempt to provide something to the local producers,” said Stender. 

Strathmore-Brooks MLA Jason Hale, who is a farmer in the area, could not have been more amazed by the new domed facility, as the farmers will benefit from this immensely. 

“It is great for the area, and we know that agriculture is very important … the more ag business we can develop and bring into the constituency does nothing but good for the local communities, ” said Hale. 

Hale believes that the increased supply will help in the long-term operations of farmers.

“It is good to have some competition and great to see a small family company develop in something that is great,” said Hale.

The Stender family is hopeful that this will be a successful farming operation for many years to come.