Ontario-based Sylvite Agri-Services Ltd. announced that it has acquired Long Fertilizer Ltd., a family-owned retail business based in Clair, New Brunswick.
The transaction, according to Sylvite, will “maintain the supply of quality fertilizer products to Long’s customers as well as expand the service offerings to include other specialty products, custom blended fertilizers, and a number of value-added services such as crop protection products and seed products.”
Long Fertilizer has served growers in northern Maine, Quebec and New Brunswick for more than 45 years. For much of that time, the company was a CIL Agromart franchise before transitioning to its own label and identity.
Andre Long, president of Long Fertilizer, will join Sylvite as manager at the Clair location. Four other staff members, out of a total of six permanent employees at the Clair location, will also make the transition to Sylvite. “Andre has many years experience serving the marketplace and has a solid reputation in understanding customer needs,” Sylvite said in a news release.
As a result of the transaction with Sylvite, the Clair location will add crop protection products, seed, and grain handling and marketing, in addition to its fertilizer offerings. Sylvite has been a wholesale supplier in that geography for more than 30 years. A company source told Green Markets that the Long acquisition “will help Sylvite better serve not only the grower but also dealers and our specialty customers.”
Headquartered in southwestern Ontario, Sylvite Agri-Services serves a variety of agricultural customers in southwestern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes, as well as providing value-added services to customers in a number of international markets. The company sells fertilizer to both wholesale and retail customers, and markets crop protection products, feed, seed, feed additives, and farm supplies. Its range of integrated services includes crop inputs, custom agronomy services, and the storage, packing, and transport of bulk and bagged finished products.
Sylvite Agri-Services also operates grain elevation and drying, as well as agronomic consulting to the grower and warehousing and handling for fertilizer manufacturers.