General Info

Warner Fertilizer Company was founded in 1965 and opened for business in November of that year. The original founders and owners were C. M. Warner and his three sons, C. V., J. C., and Richard Warner.The original site and headquarters in Somerset, Kentucky has seen two earlier plants destroyed by fire (1969 and 1986) and then rebuilt. The management was able to minimize loss and show a profit in each of those years of the fires.In 1972 the company opened two branch locations at Russell Springs and Columbia, Kentucky. Continued expansion over the years has now resulted in eight more branches and a separate corporation at Edmonton, Kentucky called Valley Fertilizer Service. This brings the total of Warner locations to eleven (including Valley) serving south central Kentucky. The other branches are located at Albany, Nancy, Tompkinsville, Campbellsville, Liberty, Monticello, and Stanford, Kentucky.Warner is the manufacturer of the WARNCO brand fertilizer and is a service oriented company serving farmers and agriculture across southern Kentucky. Products sold are bagged and bulk fertilizer, crop protection products, field seeds, seed corn, feed, and farm supplies. Among the services offered are custom application, spreader rentals, custom spraying, no-till drill rental, pasture sprayers, soil testing and agronomic consultation. The business is very seasonal with eighty percent of their annual sales occurring March through July each year. During the off-season Warner employs 60 team members who are employed full time. That number grows to around 90 in season.