By Jerry Curry, Staff Writer

An Indiana-based agricultural cooperative, Premier Ag provides local communities with energy products and crop management services and is building a new facility to do it in. Energy products they provide include propane, diesel and gas. Essentially, they are an energy and agronomy company. Agronomy is a branch of agriculture that deals with field crop production and soil management.

I recently spoke to Scott Sharp, vice president of crop nutrient & operations for Premier about the new facility being built in Campbellsburg, Indiana. Sharp said the site will consolidate the Salem and Mitchell faculties. No one will lose their jobs. The new location is 3801 North Saltillo Rd., Campbellsburg and should be ready in early spring.

There will be three separate buildings on the 15-acre plot building site. The south building will have seed and chemicals; its dimensions are 80 ft x 340 ft. The west building will have dry fertilizer and chemicals and will be 100 ft x 140 ft and house up to 4500 tons of fertilizer. The last building will house the offices and shops and will be 80 ft x 165 ft.

Approximately 15 full time employees will work out of this location and more part-time people in the peak seasons. As a safety barrier there will be three levels of confinements in case of spills. Premier Ag services Washington, Lawrence and Monroe counties. Annual sales are $700 million. The main office is located in Seymour, with locations in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. For more information, visit https://premierag.com/.