Over 50 jobs opening at fertilizer company

Wednesday marked the groundbreaking for Valley Agronomics at the FMC site. It’s the company’s way to revive the site again and put it to use. Valley Agronomics is in the process of developing three phases of obtaining and distributing fertilizer to customer farmers. According to the company, those phases will be needing to fill close to 60-70 job positions.

“We’re going to have a dry fertilizer building and a liquid fertilizer storage facility (phase one and two). Those will be done in November of this year and fully operation next Spring for our grower customers. Phase three is across the highway on the northern property, that’ll be offices, chemical warehousing and seed warehousing,” said Richard Lloyd, General Manager of Valley Agronomics.

Lloyd says jobs will be available for grower specialists, plant operations and drivers, just to name a few.

The location was perfect, he says, because it’s located near the Simplot plant, where highway entrances and railroad accesses are. Which will facilitate the distribution of fertilizer or incoming materials and chemicals.

Governor Butch Otter was in attendance for a short time at the groundbreaking event as well. He talked about the history of phosphate, referring to the FMC site. He recalls the depressing day when FMC was shut down and decommissioned. But Wednesday afternoon, he expressed his happiness among many others who came out to celebrate the groundbreaking for Valley Agronomics.

To learn more about Valley Agronomics and job opportunities, visit: Valleywidecoop.com