Company Description

Associated Grain, Inc. is the outgrowth of an agricultural business which began in 1921 as Lewis and Middleton in Parksley, Virginia. The principal business was, until the mid 1940s, the buying and brokering of vegetables and produce and the sale of fertilizer, seed and chemicals. With the expansion of the poultry industry taking place on the Delmarva Peninsula, the partners of Lewis and Middleton formed Delmarva Feed Co. The new company would supply poultry feeds and other services to local producers of broiler chickens which, by the the mid-50s, had expanded to contract broiler production and the organization of Parksley Grain Co., a grain marketing and handling facility. In 1958, W.R. Lewis, Jr., who had been associated with the business for 9 years, purchased his father's and Mr. Middleton's interests at their retirement.