Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa

Company History: The Farmers' Grain Dealers Association was organized in 1904 as a regional grain marketing cooperative based in Des Moines, Iowa. Its function was to market grain for local country co-op elevators. By the mid-1940s it had acquired a soybean processing plant in Mason City, barge terminals and elevators in Muscatine and McGregor, elevators in Des Moines, and more than 1000 railroad hopper cars. In 1979, FGDA changed its name to American Grain & Related Industries (AGRA). Source: University of Iowa Library Collection

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