MFA AGRI SERVICES IS FARMER OWNED

Providing seed, feed, fertilizer and expertise

MARYVILLE, Mo. — Throughout Nodaway County and the northwest region of Missouri, if a farmer is buying feed, fertilizer or having their fields sprayed, there’s a good chance the services are being provided by MFA Agri Services.

MFA started in 1914 in southern Missouri when a group of farmers joined together and it has continued to grow across the state including the Maryville store, located at 221 N. Depot St. and the new agronomy services hub in Ravenwood.

“We’re farmer owned,” Jeff Meyer said. “We’re the oldest co-op west of the Mississippi.”

The business offers a variety of agriculture based services including manufacturing and selling feed both in bulk and in bags, selling fertilizer and chemicals for crops, operating and storing grain and more.

“We’re still feeding grain here but then all of our other services, fertilizer and chemicals, is over there (in Ravenwood),” Meyer said. “So that’s kind of a change coming with the new generation of MFAs.”

The new service hub in Ravenwood, Four Rivers MFA Agronomy Center, is a state-ofthe-art $8 million facility with a dry fertilizer plant, a multipurpose building to store seed, crop protection and equipment and automated systems in both buildings to help load and unload trucks, mix fertilizers and chemicals, prepare sprayers and more.

“It’s a building that does the same thing as any fertilizer plant anyway, it’s just new and faster ways of doing it,” Craig McIntyre, manager of the Ravenwood facility, said.

“You know, the ’70s was a big time in agriculture. A lot of them were built in the ’70s and there really hasn’t been a lot of them built since. Our buildings are starting to show their age and it’s time to put up some new ones.”

The new facility is in a centralized location to the other five MFA stores in MFA Northwest, which includes Maryville, Burlington Junction, Conception Junction, Guilford, Sheridan and Grant City.

For more information on feed, fertilizer, chemicals and MFA’s other services, please call the Maryville store location at 660-582-2101.