Southern FS remains open despite tornado, limited services offered
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Customers should keep their expectations low. About all the business is able to sell is bags of feed and seed and is directing customers needing other farm supplies to stores in Eldorado, Marion or Big Bay.
"We are going to rebuild, we just don't know what it's going to look like," Manager Danny Evans said.
Staff is also taking payments at the trailer.
Evans expects it may be five to six weeks and cost $150,000 to be able to offer gasoline again.
"We hope to be looking at fertilizer in a couple of weeks," Evans said.
He also anticipates having anhydrous ammonia available to farmers for this spring.
On Feb. 28 -- the day before the tornado -- Evans was showing the Daily Register/Daily Journal some of the unique and one-of-a-kind items being stored at Southern FS for the auction of the Saline County Stockmen's Association Banquet that was scheduled for March 3.
The tornado destroyed many of those items, including a child's buckboard wagon made by Jerry Murphy. Other items were stored in the Saline County Farm Bureau Office that had its roof torn off in the storm.
Evans said the banquet will be held this spring, perhaps in April.
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