Farm Supply history

Farm Stores was founded in 1935 as Land O’ Sun Dairies, Inc.

TSC was founded in 1938 by Charles E. Schmidt as a mail order tractor parts business, and today we've grown into the largest operator of retail farm stores in America.

He began his business career in the radio industry, in 1947 going to work for an Augusta, Georgia, radio station owned by J.B. Fuqua.

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San Luis Obispo County Farm Supply Company, Inc. (FSC) was established in 1950 as an agricultural supply cooperative to serve the members of the Farm Bureau.

After operating over 70 Farm Stores locations for years, America’s largest and oldest drive-thru convenient store offers franchise and development opportunities for the first time since 1957.

In 1958 he took the business public, and TSC shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

After he stepped away from the company, Schmidt moved to south Florida in 1964, then at the age of 63 started another career as banker, gaining control of a 27-bank chain, Gulfstream Banks, which became his second company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

After a stint in the service during the Korean War, he returned to Fuqua, where he served in a number of executive capacities until 1968 when he left to run his own business, the Daisy Corporation.

When he rejoined Fuqua in 1974 it was a much more diversified company.

In July 1977, Farm Supply purchased Cal Tech Chemical in Paso Robles.

1978: Fuqua Industries acquires the business.

After working 15 years for a New Jersey retail chain, Two Guys Discount Stores, Scarlett came to TSC in 1979, a period of transition in the business.

When management bought the company in 1982 it was generating annual revenues in the $125 million range, drawn from 135 stores.

In 1989, Farm Supply purchased Hanson Hardware on the corner of Main Street and Blosser in Santa Maria.

In February 1992, Hennesy stepped down, replaced as chairman and CEO by Scarlett.

Following its initial public offering, TSC made a push into North Carolina in 1994, and for the year added 13 stores to the chain with plans to add more at a clip of 20 stores per year.

TSC also looked to the Internet starting in 1997, purely as a way to provide information to its customers.

In 1999 it had merged with Central Tractor Farm & Country of Iowa, making it the largest farm store retailer in the United States, but the debt incurred, as well as a clash in corporate cultures, led to severe repercussions.

In November 2001 the company was forced into bankruptcy.

2002: Sales top $1 billion.

In 2004, Farm Supply built a brand new facility at its current location at 224 Tank Farm Road.

On October 10, 2013, the company celebrated its 75th anniversary by ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York.”

He's the kind of shopper around whose precise needs and habits Tractor Supply has built a $6.2 billion (2015 revenues) business . The typical Tractor Supply customer owns land, keeps pets, raises chickens and drives a pickup.