About Lime Ridge Ag Supply

Lime Ridge Ag Supply LLC was established in October, 1986 by current owner Tim Willis. Tim had worked for previous facility owner, Bryce Ewing, of the Gotham area and quickly learned the importance of quality and timely customer service. That inspiration to customer focus is still considered a large contributor to the continual growth of our customer base. Operations started in the old feed mill with Tim and 1 full time employee.

The first phase of grain handling and storage was erected in 1992. Additions to storage and drying capacity have been implemented several times since then, and now Lime Ridge Ag has over three hundred thousand bushel grain storage capacity. Lime Ridge Ag has been a State Approved Grain Warehouse and Grain Dealer since the mid 90’s. Grain drying and storage was added primarily to accommodate the need for incorporating customer grown grains into diets for their livestock. Our customers can use their corn for calf or heifer feeds; as an extender to their home stored corn; a way to reduce mold and yeast from some high moisture situations, or for custom beef or swine diets. In the Spring of 2017, we added a three-pair high roller mill for super-fine and more consistent grain processing. We currently produce traditional rolled corn, a 750 micron corn, and a 400 micron corn.

A commodity shed was constructed (in 1994) with a capacity of about 300 ton of feed ingredients. It proved to be a good investment and a few improvements later the commodity shed increased to almost 600 ton of feed ingredients with a much wider selection. This facility, very economically constructed, had allowed for one man to blend bulk feeds much faster than we had in the past.

In the fall of 2013, a comprehensive 3 year business plan had been introduced and implemented. The plan would focus on growth through relationships with co-workers and our customers. A major component of the 3 year plan was to add on to the office and show room areas and improve areas for employees. We entered that first area of improvement, September 2014. A second commitment Tim made was to improve the working conditions of the employees by constructing a new mill.

In the Spring of 2017, we entered the newly constructed mill. A few featured improvements included a reduction of dust in the worker areas by more than 75%; a much safer and more efficient environment; and the bringing of all employees to one building to better serve the needs of our customers.

Beyond the improvements listed above, we would reduce several bottlenecks in production; reduce our time to mix feed by more than ½; improve the quality of products by adding cleaning equipment; largely reduce oversight of grain processing; have six load out bins totaling about 100 ton of finished feed; help us to conform to FSMA quality assurance programs, and increase our storage capacity by about 725 ton of bulk ingredients. An automated software program draws ingredients from bins to scales, scales to mixers, and finally mixers to load out. Meanwhile small inclusion and liquid products are added to the mixer at the proper time in the sequence.

Big Gain Feeds from Mankato, Minnesota is the primary commercial feed supplier having been in house since 1996. Along with McNess Feeds of Lodi, Wisconsin, Big Gain is an appreciated source of nutritional services and representatives for nutrition; high quality pelleted or commercial livestock feeds; and a large network of livestock producers to share in production and marketing opportunities. There are several other vendors to Lime Ridge Ag that provide everything from soymeal to palm oil fats to herbicides to cattle implants.

Over the years we have had some additions to our agronomy programs and some changes. Our most recent change is the addition of Rob See Co. They are a fast growing regional seed supplier out of Nebraska. Rob Robinson, CEO of Rob See Co, brings a fresh approach to Commercial Seed sales by keeping the focus on the customer’s needs above the bottom line profit. It is refreshing to work with his group of representatives, and I look forward to growing that business in years to come.

115 Minor Street
PO Box 115
Lime Ridge, WI. 53942
608-986-2626
info@limeridgeagsupply.com
Tim Willis: 608-963-2696
Lucas Oliver: 608-574-2851 Taylor Fearing: 608-415-9552