1945: Bank Stabilization
The Bank Stabilization and Navigation Program (BSNP) was specifically authorized by Congress by the Rivers and Harbors Act. The project provides a permanent, continuous, open river navigation channel, 9-foot-deep and 300-foot-wide, from Sioux City to the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near St. Louis. Figure 5 shows the navigation channel.
1975: Butch and Bill
Walker C. (Butch) Fletcher and William P. (Bill) Jackson discovered a mutual interest in developing a barge facility in central Missouri to move agricultural inputs, especially fertilizer, into this community and grain back to the New Orleans export market. Butch Fletcher owned and managed Fletcher Grain, a country elevator business. Bill Jackson was part owner and manager of Jackson Chemical in Polo, Missouri.
1976: New Land
Fletcher and Jackson located land along the Missouri River between Kansas City and Jefferson City that had rail service and access to a good highway. In the summer of 1977, The Brunswick River Terminal, Inc. Corporation was formed and purchased 20 acres of farmland. The acreage was three miles west of Brunswick on U.S. Highway 24, adjoining the Norfolk Southern Railroad and at mile marker 256,on the left bank of the Missouri River.
Over the next year, the farmland was converted into a fertilizer distribution facility with a 45,000-ton dry bulk fertilizer storage warehouse, barge and rail unloading facilities, rail and truck load out facilities, truck and rail scales, and an office/shop.
2001: Ownership Transfer
On January 1, 2001, the current stockholders and management of Ag Land, Inc. Brookfield, Missouri, Ray Bennett and Tom Bennett, announced their decision to transfer ownership of all existing stock in Ag Land, Inc. to the present stockholders of Brunswick River Terminal, Inc. Brunswick, Missouri.