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American Agriculture History Minute: Chemical Manufacturing Company Opens Doors

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Mark Oppold with an American agriculture history minute explains how a small chemical manufacturing company opened its doors in 1957 in West Helena, Arkansas, near the Mississippi River south of Memphis.

American Agriculture History Minute: Chemical Manufacturing Company Opens Doors

Today, the company is headquartered just outside Memphis and known as Helena Agri-Enterprises and is one of the largest contract chemical manufacturers in the country, providing formulations and packaging services for other well-known brands in and out of agriculture. They now operate in 42 states and more than 6,000 employees. Helena Agri-Enterprises.

That’s today’s American Agriculture History Minute. I’m Mark Oppold. Thanks for reading. I’ll see you next time.