For sixty years Hawkins Farmers Co-op has served the needs of farmers and the people of Hawkins County. Our cooperative was chartered back in 1959 as an agriculture cooperative. It was started by farmers of our very rural county at that time to secure dependable and quality feed, seed, and fertilizer products at a fair and reasonable price. Back then there were twenty dairies and a half acre to three-acre tobacco allotments on every farm; How times have changed.
Our first humble business location in 1959 was a small store building on Depot Street in Rogersville. In 1961 we bought the property and built our first building at our present location on 240 Burem Road. A giant leap of faith by our incorporating directors: John Cornwell, Carl D. Frazier, Ron Odom, Fred P. Rogers, John Dalton, Grant Greene, David C. Parker, J.C. Roller, Jack K. Davis, Roy Morgan, E.E. Randles, and J.B. Winkle Jr. Financing was secured by selling interest-bearing preferred stock to farmers, and borrowing funds from the Louisville Bank Of Cooperatives. All of which have been paid off many years ago.
The individual farmer members are the actual owners of our Co-op.
