About the company

Family-owned since 1998, built on the grain we buy and the feed we sell

Northline Grain & Feed Co. started with one 60,000-bushel timber elevator on Quarry Line Road and a single truck scale. Today the yard at 1420 Quarry Line Road stocks seed, mineral feed, bagged fertilizer and agronomy tools for roughly 430 working farms across the valley.

From a single elevator bay in 1998 to ten shipping bays, three yard scales and 340,000 bushels of licensed storage.

Made of post holes in a wet April

Marion and Elsie Cade bought the elevator and a half-acre of ground from the Kent Valley Co-op in March 1998. There were 31 customer accounts on a paper ledger, three employees, and one bar to sort feed across eight counties.

The second generation bought into the business in 1999 and spent six