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P&H adding new location locally

Parrish & Heimbecker, Ltd.’ is expanding its operations in Yorkton. “We’re basically opening up a new location,” explained Justin Watson, vice-president of Crop Inputs Canada, a division of P&H.
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Parrish & Heimbecker, Ltd.’ is expanding its operations in Yorkton.

 

“We’re basically opening up a new location,” explained Justin Watson, vice-president of Crop Inputs Canada, a division of P&H.

 

The new location is north of the city on Highway #9, and will be home to a fertilizer distribution warehouse, as well as ultimately seed and farm chemical sales.

 

Typically when P&H has added just facilities to a location which has a grain elevator already on-site it is an add-on to the existing location. However, in Yorkton there was no room to expand at the P&H elevator site so they went elsewhere, explained Watson.

 

Still, the new services being provided at the new location “will have a very strong tie-in with the grain business at the Yorkton location,” said Watson.

 

Watson said P&H has a strong customer base in Yorkton, many of whom have been asking for a bulk fertilizer facility.

 

Watson said work is under way at the location, and depending on weather, or more particularly freeze-up, should be open in early spring 2018.

 

The bulk fertilizer facility will essentially be a Phase I of an overall site development, said Watson, with further work to include a rail spur to tie the fertilizer facility into the rail line. At present there is no spur, but Watson said that should be added within 24-months.

 

Beyond the fertilizer distribution centre will be chemical and seed sales facilities, which Watson says is presently going through the budgetary process of the company.

 

Watson said the bulk seed facility is tentatively planned to open before the spring seeding season of 2019.

 

Asked what the overall investment will be at Yorkton, Watson said that is not something the company generally releases.

 

“As an organization they rarely let that out,” he told Yorkton This Week.

 

Watson did note as the development grows over the next few years additional staff will be required.

“We’re adding a whole new level of business.” He said, adding that will mean “more people.”