Agway

[Timmycornpicker]

I remember Agways in Clinton, Flemington, Washington, Phillipsburg and Belle Mead. There had been one along the railroad in West Portal but that closed before my time. The Bloomsbury location was a fertilizer plant only which is still operated by Growmark FS.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

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.

A farm I rent has an Agway steel shed from the 70s. It's not a pole barn. I think they called it cantilevered steel beam construction.

 

[MeanGene1]

We also used Farm Bureau with success, they were selling their own-branded tires which were actually Generals at a discounted price- bought lots of 10.00-20's from them

 

[peteL]

I remember the one in Sidney, NY. It was originally a GLF. I too liked the grain feed smell once you walked into the store as a kid. My dad bought car tires there and my grandfather bought his Wolverine work shoes there.

 

[JOCCO]

We also used Farm Bureau with success, they were selling their own-branded tires which were actually Generals at a discounted price- bought lots of 10.00-20's from them

Yes we still have FB but they don't sell farm supplies anymore.

 

[MeanGene1]

Yes we still have FB but they don't sell farm supplies anymore.

I have the metal Farm Bureau Member sign off the door of gramps' shop- also a "license plate" that is from the Cohocton Sesqui-Centenial

 

[deere4040]

I remember riding with dad to grind ear corn at Agway the falconer ny location. Local farmer worked there. When it closed he bought the machinery and opened his own mill. D&L Enos mill. Sugar grove pa. 2nd generation now running it.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

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

Yes, they were all over. Feeds mills, and they brokered a lot of surplus grain out of Cayuga county to other mills and farms. Their former Auburn fertilizer location is now Caro-Vail. They were at one time the biggest fuel/energy supplier in the northeast. Approx. 1999-2000 I helped a neighbor, who was a contract hauler for Agway, deliver fuel.

 

[MeanGene1]

I think Agway faded out lime spreading around us when gramps got all the M35 deuce and a halfs and could get on the fields when there were still snowdrifts- they had R190's. We had one too, but it's nickname was "Stuck". The last two 6x6's had custom-built spreaders from Russ Pillsbury in Jamestown

 

[Jcrowl]

We had one in Meadville PA that did fuel and home heating. In the late 90's they put our heating boiler in our house, they did a nice job.

 

[larryshaw]

I live in Antwerp N.Y. We had a 60 cow dairy . Back in the 60"s and 70"s we bought 90% of our supplys from agway . Fuel, Grain, Fertilizer,milking equipment ,Barn cleaner, silo unloader , Kaston forage wagons. You name it they had it.

 

[Richard Nixon]

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

Yes. There were 3 of their stores in northern New Jersey. One, north of Newton, was a fuel location. I bought 2 550 underground tanks from them and fueled my diesel powered cars that way during the 1970s fuel crises and for many years after that. They each had a hand cranked pump which I still use on my farm tanks in Wisconsin. Made by Williams in Pa, they have the Agway logo on them. GPI bought Williams out and no longer have parts for the pumps but they still work fine after 50+ years. Agway went into bankruptcy and closed the locations in NJ but they still may have some locations in NY. ?? Answer: I just checked. Tru Value apparently bought the name. Agway itself is out of business.

 

[timcasbolt]

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

You can't pass through Cuba without stopping in the Cuba Cheese Shoppe for some extra sharp cheddar. I remember when the Dansville Agway was a GLF.

 

[valleview]

Agway in Middlebury, VT. they sold calf feed, chicken feed, salt blocks, etc. Daughter has purchased chicks there recently, but they may be operating under a different name. It was similar to the Midwest's Tractor Supply.

 

[Tramway Guy]

There is still an ‘Agway’ store in LaFargeville NY, but the brand was bought by True Value a long time ago.
Before their bankruptcy in 2002, they were all over the place in NY.

 

[Brian G. NY]

I remember the one in Sidney, NY. It was originally a GLF. I too liked the grain feed smell once you walked into the store as a kid. My dad bought car tires there and my grandfather bought his Wolverine work shoes there.

Wow, you brought back some good memories; I remember the Agways in both Cobleskill and Middleburgh.
I too, remember the pleasant smell of the feed bags stacked to the ceilings.
My Dad bought tractor tires there......I think the brand was UNICO which apparently was still in business into the 70s at least in the South.