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heir business is growing. Sure, it may be a play on G-mac’s Ag Team’s company
tagline, but it rings true. Since the fi rst location opened in Kindersley
in November of 2000 it has rapidly expanded to a number of communities throughout southwest and west central Saskatchewan. T e newest upgrade is the construction of an 8,000-tonne liquid fertilizer storage
facility in Leader and the addition of a rail unload station at the site. T e Great Sandhills Railroad services the spur. At the time of writing this article,
they were also in the
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process of building a rail unload for dry fertilizer. “Hopefully sooner than later we have
this rodeo cleaned up. I am hoping by July that everything is organized,” chuckled Leon Strutt, G-mac’s AgTeam Leader retail
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location operations manager. Between offi ce renovations and the expansion the staff are ready to settle back into a non-construction environment. T e development of the liquid storage facility began in August of 2011 and just fi nished in early May. “T e main reason we built (the container)
is because the logistics of getting product this far out from the plant in season is very diffi cult and G-mac’s needs the supply in order to be able to consistently service our customers,” he said. G-mac’s AgTeam boasts it is a one- stop in agriculture inputs, from fertilizer and seed to herbicides and fungicides. T e company also rents out sprayers and fertilizer applicators. “We pride ourselves on being a high-end
service business,” said Strutt. Once they are ready to unload dry and liquid fertilizer off
rail, the additional
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transportation method will help to relieve some of the pressure off the local highways. Highway 21 south of Leader is still in disrepair, however Highway 21 north through the river hills and Highway 32, which the Great Sandhills Railways follows between Leader and Swiſt Current, have both been upgraded in recent years. Within the past four years, the young
company, only now entering its teenage years, also updated the Eatonia facility and in November 2010 established a location in Elrose. T e 2012 year kicked off as Landis became the ninth community to have a local building sporting the G-mac’s signage. G-mac’s AgTeam fi rst expanded into
Leader in May of 2003. It now employees 11 individuals from within the community, many of which are originally from Leader and the surrounding area. For example, the current agronomist Sarah Anderson graduated from Leader Composite School and took advantage of the job opportunity within her home community. One of the few “imports” at the company
Strutt didn’t have to contemplate for long when making
the decision to call the
community home. “For me it was easy because I have worked
with Garth and Gayle MacDonald — the owners — before and when I fi nished school I was off ered the position as manager in 2003 and I was happy to move to a smaller community like Leader,” he said. “Company-wide, G-mac’s prides ourselves
in being involved in the community and supporting the organizations throughout the community.”
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