Our Future: Strengthening the Global Food Supply Chain
AGI is a thriving agricultural products and services company comprised of globally recognized, industry-leading brands.
Our future is full of activity as we maintain our focus both on the products and producers that laid our foundation, while also embarking on a journey of organic growth and operational excellence. We are harnessing our strengths and capabilities, focusing on our core competencies and broadening our market presence. A key part of our strategy involves leveraging the local knowledge we’ve acquired and transferring it to AGI business units worldwide, fostering a global network of expertise. Alongside this, AGI’s purpose has crystallized, underscoring our commitment to advancing storage, handling and processing solutions that strengthen and secure the global food supply chain.
Today we operate across five business platforms:
We partner with customers in five regions:
Established in 1996: Ag Growth International
1996 to 2004: Expansion and Growth
1996 to 2004: Expansion and Growth
Over the next eight years, our founders grew the business by acquiring complementary companies to expand our manufacturing capabilities and gain access to an extensive dealer network. Acquisitions included widely recognized and respected brand names like Manitoba-based Wheatheart Manufacturing, with its specialty agricultural products, as well as Westfield Industries, an established leader in grain auger manufacturing.
2004-2014: Initial Public Offering and Continued Growth
2015: A Year of Growth and Change
2015: A Year of Growth and Change
2015 was a big year for AGI with many more acquisitions. The largest in our company history was Westeel, which solidified our market-leading ability to provide unparalleled service and the broadest product catalogue in markets close to home. The Westeel acquisition also included PTM Technology and FRAME, which continued our expansion into international markets.
2016: Entering Brasil with Greenfield Plus Approach
2016: Entering Brasil with Greenfield Plus Approach
AGI’s acquisition of Entringer initiated our Greenfield Plus strategy, expanding our product line and presence in Brasil. This strategic move, coupled with investment in a new facility, uniquely positioned AGI in the Brasilian market and set the stage for contributions starting 2017.
2016 to 2018: Expansion and International Markets
2016 to 2018: Expansion and International Markets
With continued organic growth, geographic expansion, and product and market diversification, our notable acquisitions during this period included companies in the fertilizer, seed, feed, and food sectors. We added VIS, Mitchell Mill Systems (MMS) and Yargus Manufacturing to our roster, as well as our second largest acquisition in the company’s history: Global Industries. With its strong platform in the grain handling, conditioning, and storage equipment markets, Global Industries’ portfolio of brands included MFS, York, Stormor, Brownie, GTS, Hutchinson, Mayrath, NECO, and Sentinel.
2019: Strategic Expansion into Rice Equipment and the Indian Market
2019: Strategic Expansion into Rice Equipment and the Indian Market
AGI’s strategic acquisition of Milltec marked our expansion into rice equipment and the rapidly growing Indian market, one of the world’s largest agricultural producers and consumers. AGI Milltec’s transition from a regional company to a Pan-India business aligned with AGI’s goal to supply the world’s food infrastructure.
2018 to 2021: AGI Invests in IoT to Protect and Promote Quality
2018 to 2021: AGI Invests in IoT to Protect and Promote Quality
Focused on the transformational power of digital technology to the grain, feed and food supply chain, AGI invested in the development of a robust IoT product portfolio through acquisitions of innovation companies: CMC Industrial Electronics; Junge Control, Inc.; Affinity Management Ltd; IntelliFarms LLC, and Farmobile, Inc. AGI CMC Hazard Monitoring, Grain Temperature Systems and EZ Sentinel Controllers to deliver real-time hazard monitoring and safety alerts for commercial storage, milling and processing. AGI expanded its farm catalog to include BinManager and Suretrack for monitoring, safety, automated aeriation, and quality control of stored grain; and Farmobile PUC™ for collection and standardization of field-level machine and agronomic data across the crop season.