Location: Licking, Mo.
Owners: Roger and Betty Kinder, and Ethan and Haley Kinder
History: Kinder Feed & Farm Supply opened many years ago as Kinder Plant Food, offering fertilizer and lime to landowners in the area.
In 2019, the Kinder family launched Kinder Feed and Farm Supply.
“My husband (Ethan) and his dad (Roger) always wanted to have a feed store,” co-owner Haley Kinder explained. “When MFA shut down, they thought it would be a good time to do it.”
Products and Services: Kinder Feed and Farm Supply still offer customers fertilizer and lime, including buggies and custom spreading.
Inside the store, farmers and ranchers can find everything from feed to ropes.
“We have a full line of ADM products on the floor, Dryshod boots, Cactus ropes, and we also do our own custom mixes and deliver bulk feed,” Haley said, adding the Kinder 1/3 Beef mix and their custom poultry mixes are among their top sellers.
Kinder Feed & Farm Supply also has a wide selection of herbicides and pesticides; livestock pharmaceuticals (such as vaccinations and dewormers); pet food from Victory, Joy and Value Pack; salt and mineral blocks; lick tubs; water tanks, equine supplies; gates; fencing supplies; and many other farm- and livestock-related products.
Being a farming family themselves, the Kinders stock what they feel farmers and ranchers might need daily.
Customers can find garden seed, seed potatoes, and other gardening supplies in the spring, but they do not carry live plants. Kinder Feed & Farm Supply holds a fish day in the fall and spring. Other seasonal items include hay wrap in the summer and, in the winter, fuel additives.
For the farm kid, or the farm kid at heart, Kinder Feed & Farm Supply has farm toys, with a more extensive selection on display during the Christmas season.
“We have a good selection and are happy with what we can offer,” Haley said.
Future plans: “Right now, it’s kind of like see what comes our way and go from there,” Haley said.
