Agway

[MeanGene1]

Anyone deal with Agway in the old days? They had a farm store in Bath NY, and competed with gramps in lime spreading. They also rented an area at gramps' main lime stockpile at the old Wallace train depot for their fuel tank complex, and a gent that lived in Wallace drove the local fuel delivery truck. Pretty busy place back then

 

[scootergmc]

No experience with Agway, but I once ran into a guy selling Henways...

 

[MeanGene1]

No experience with Agway, but I once ran into a guy selling Henways...

Nice try- told that one too many times myself

 

[NY 986]

I did. Towards the end of its existence. My previous fertilizer supplier ended in house credit so I went with Agway which had deferred financing. They bugged me about selling grain to them but they had a poor reputation in that area so I never sold them anything.

 

[300jk]

Anyone deal with Agway in the old days? They had a farm store in Bath NY, and competed with gramps in lime spreading. They also rented an area at gramps' main lime stockpile at the old Wallace train depot for their fuel tank complex, and a gent that lived in Wallace drove the local fuel delivery truck. Pretty busy place back then

There was an Agway not far from here back when I was young in the 80’s. Yes I know I’m young. Anyway we used to get supplies from them. Dairy farm next door got there diesel from them . I remember something like Agway green diesel fuel . It was definitely green.

 

[NY 986]

There was an Agway not far from here back when I was young in the 80’s. Yes I know I’m young. Anyway we used to get supplies from them. Dairy farm next door got there diesel from them . I remember something like Agway green diesel fuel . It was definitely green.

The farmer to the north of us used the Agway green diesel fuel and liked it.

 

[MeanGene1]

Yep, bright green diesel. They actually had a pair of square tanks made for gramps, one for gas, one for diesel, for his pickup. Vacuum powered pumps that ran off engine vacuum. But the diesel tank at home was out back with a hand pump, so guess who got to pump it

 

[JD Dave]

Yeah, we had an Agway store in Englishtown. I bought fuel and fertilizer from them back in the 1980's.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

There were a lot of them around here 50 or 60 years ago. None now.

 

[sms]

We used Agay a lot. Bought all the fuel for dads sawmill, heating oil for home, motor oil and home garden supplies. Used them until they closed.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

There were a lot of them around here 50 or 60 years ago. None now.

They also had a fertilizer plant about 40 miles from here in Detroit Maine.

 

[showcrop]

My uncle just up the road from us was an Agway agent working out of a wood floor shed on his 50 milker farm in the fifties and sixties. Other farmers would stop in and pick up 100 lb. sacks of grain and other supplies. His product came into town by rail. The cars had to be unloaded by hand but he had two big strapping sons who supplied most of the muscle. In the mid seventies a son took the business over. He had a nice commercial building put up in town, and did a very good business. I remember though that in the mid eighties he was still unloading 100 lb. bags off from rail cars. The business gradually transitioned from farm to home supply. The grain deliveries went from carrying bags to blown in. They had a blower mounted on the back of the truck that would blow it up into a silo. The truck driver still had to dump bags into the blower. Then of course the deliveries went to being augered in. The store gave my cousin a good base for promoting his local political agendas. He was also locally famous for killing a wild boar which was not native to the area.

 

[JOCCO]

I knew what it was and there was some around in one area. They even had farm buildings. Not sure what happened to it but it went out.

 

[Tim in New York]

We had one in Owego, NY that I went to a lot with dad in the 60's. The mill was really neat - you could smell the feed as soon as you got out of the truck, He was a "member", I guess because his parent had a farm back in the 40's and 50's. Its still there as a locally owned retail store. The mill building has been converted to office space.

 

[Bob NY]

I did a lot of business with Evans Mills Agway when I was on the farm from 1974 to 1984.

 

[Keith True]

We still have a half dozen or so around N.H. My wife had a gardening business,and bought a lot from a couple of them.I thought one of them had closed,but recently found out he had just moved to a bigger and better location.I still have a 300 gallon Agway fuel tank.It used to be if you wanted to buy fuel from them they would drop a tank for you.At some point they sent me a letter saying they would either pick the tank up when it was empty,or I could buy it from them.I called the number in the letter and found that they just didn't want to be responsible for tanks anymore.They sold the tank to me for $1. and I signed the bill of sale.After that I could have any oil company fill it,the tank was mine.

 

[Tim in New York]

That sounds familiar. I think our tank came from them also. There was an Agway Petroleum station just up the road from us. When they started charging more to deliver gas than the pump price, I loaded the empty tank on the snowmobile trailer and towed it to the station with the Allis B and filled it up at the cheaper price. That did not go over too well and they soon had a handwritten sign on the door that they could limit purchase amounts. I was lucky I pulled that one off without some kind of disaster!

 

[INCase]

uncle in NW Pa used alot of Agway stuff. Fuel, propane and supplies for the dairy like bulk tank sanitizer. I'm sure other stuff. lots of Agway hats around there.

 

[WNYBill]

Agway took over the GLF here in Cuba, NY. Nearly every small town had an Agway. Back in the day there were many 20-30 cow dairy farms here in WNY and they kept the farm supply stores in business. My Dad bought some Agway bonds, they were a good investment. I can remember farmers driving their horses and wagon to the GLF and Phelps and Sibley (PASCO on the tag means quality in the bag). Now the closest store to buy seed and fertilizer is 40 miles away, a pretty good hike for a team.

 

[MeanGene1]

Ah, Cuba- my dad and I picked up my first minibike, a Lil' Indian, in Cuba in 1967 on our way to the races at Watkins Glen. Agway was selling the "Sensation Mike-Bike" back then. Drove thru there a couple years ago on my way to Franklinville