Munros History
1977
Munro
Farm Supply
-
rented buildings
- Shur-Gain
sub-dealership
- sales agency
Ralphdale Fertilizer
- Asgrow seed
corn dealership
- purchased a used single axle feed truck
- 2 - 4 m.t. fertilizer spreaders
1978
- first building
on site
- garage/storage
- warehousing for Green Cross
- hired 1st employee
- purchased 2nd truck - Chevy 1/2 ton
1979
- main buildings and infrastructure
- grain dryer, elevator w/3000 m.t. storage
- 70' platform truck scale
1980
- Munro Feed and Farm Supply Ltd.
- single axle tender unit, new single axle feed
- new single axle feed truck
- Purina dealership
1981
- 2nd corn
dryer
- additional grain storage (3000 - 5600 m.t.)
- Munro Fertilizers Ltd. (joint venture / C.I.L.)
- built fertilizer plant (Sacket Tower Blender)
- 6 Wilmar spreaders
1982
- 1st computer (Apple
II)
- program selling start up
- Loral Air-Flo
...(precision application)
- added tandem auger truck
1983
- increased drying
capacity
- installed aspiration system
- 1st field sprayer (110 gallon Calsa)
1984
- NH3 pumping station
- purchased 12 NH3 nurse tanks
1985
- built shop/chemical
storage building
- purchased used Hahn Hi-Boy Sprayer
1986 - 1989
- Libra accounting
system
- additional spreaders
1991
- 8' Ag Bagger
- John Deere 6000 Field Sprayer
- tandem feed truck
1991
- amalgamation of
Feed and Fertilizer Companies
- Munro Agromart Ltd. - outcome
- Liberty accounting system
1993
- purchased 9' Ag
Bagger - 2nd Unit
1995
- operational pad
- upgrades to Chemical building to meet Phase III requirements
- exit NH3 business
1996
- major upgrades
to fertilizer plant
....elevator at tower rebuilt in stainless
....rebuilt bulk toter in stainless
....replace consignor with penthouse
- purchase Patriot Sprayer
- covered operational pad
- conversion of Loral Air-Flo to spinner unit
- first lime applied in fall '96
- G.P.S. start up year
- sold first yield monitor
- grid sampled first acreage
- first involvement with field calibration
1997
- reconstruction of tower blender
- 8 m.t. kraus Blender
- new Loral Air-Max
- 3rd ag bagger purchased (2nd 9' unit)
- Liberty to Progressive software accounting system
.... (P.O.S. start up - March 97)
- natural gas installation in time for '97 crop drying
1998
-
Ice Storm '98
- renovation of office space to better utilize people
- purchase of 3440 Spra-Coupe
- fall - add. grain storage (5600 - 7500 m.t.)
- a formalized business plan
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