Newsom Opens Storage Facility In Greenville
Jim Newsom Ag Service Inc., dealing in salvaged grain, fertilizer and other agricultural products, has recently added a storage warehouse located in the Greenville, Miss., port complex at Lower Mississippi River Mile 537. The enclosed warehouse can handle 5,000-plus tons of six different commodities, along with open-air storage for more than 10,000 tons.
Newsom uses the warehouse space for not only storing reconditioned off-spec fertilizers and all types of feed ingredient commodities, but also for leasing to other customers. Located on the premises are certified truck scales, end loaders, conveyors, delumpers, screens, and warehouse aeration used in conjunction with its sister company, Jim Newsom Trucking Inc. (JNT), both headquartered in Glen Allan, Miss.
Jim Newsom Ag Service handles all types of commodities including all fertilizers, grains, salt, feed ingredients, cottonseed, lumber, steel, coal, coke and liquid products. Services available at this location include loading and unloading railcars on the C&G Railroad, along with trans-loading containers and loading super sacks.
Jim Newsom has been involved in the inland waterways and the Mississippi River, buying and selling distressed and off-grade products from barges, oceangoing vessels and grain elevators, and for warehouse storage for 41 years. He has become well known throughout the river and fertilizer industries, say those who know him, for being able to get jobs done when no one else can, specializing in “making problems go away.” Having owned trucks has enabled him to grow the salvage business and remove salvage products in a timely manner.
Paul McRaney serves as Jim Newsom Ag Service’s director of sales. He has been in the fertilizer business his entire career, working for Mississippi Chemical, Mississippi Phosphates, and Oxbow Fertilizer, and brings many years of both knowledge and relationships to the business, the company said.
Beginning the trucking operations in 1979, Jim Newsom Trucking and Newsom Express specialize in loading and unloading barges daily at local port terminals, primarily Greenville and Vicksburg, but also throughout the region. Its fleet of hazmat trucks consists of 40-foot high-cubed dump trailers, liquid tankers, belts, walking floors, pneumatics, hoppers, and open tops. Presently, JNT hauls dry and liquid fertilizers, cottonseed, feed ingredients, and industrial products. “We take pride in being the same family-oriented trucking company we have always been,” said his wife, Penny.
The Newsoms’ daughter, Michelle Manor, joined the company in 1997 when JNT was awarded the bulk ammonium nitrate (hazmat) contract from Mississippi Chemical, Yazoo City, Miss. At that time, JNT opened a second terminal in Yazoo City. “We have been hauling daily out of this same nitrate plant for over 22 years,” Penny said.
“Jim and I are very proud of Michelle’s ability to oversee the daily operations for the trucking company. As members of the Mississippi Trucking Association, Michelle also serves on the MTA Safety Council, as well as being our company safety director,” she said.
