New Year, New CO-OP
Robertson Cheatham Farmer’s Cooperative has been a part of the community for more than 74 years. A lot of things have changed over the years and 2021 brought a few more changes. We had a couple people retire and even lost a couple of past and present employees. We welcomed some new faces and welcomed back a familiar face as well as started some new traditions that helps us to be a little more active in the community. Now is as good of a time as any to inform our customers, readers and listeners of some of the new activities we have in play.
Chewing Cud
In case you haven’t heard, CO-OP has joined in the 21st century with our social media platforms, blog and the newest a podcast. We had planned on launching a podcast in 2020 but covid-19 showed its ugly face and changed our plans like it did for so many others. Early this fall, we welcomed back Clint Grubbs who is our main host on the podcast dubbed “Grazing.” Clint worked with us a few years ago pulling soil 
samples, tendering fertilizer when needed as well as making videos for CO-OP’s social media platforms. Clint, along with our accounting manager, Caroline Huffines, and our general manager Randy Sutherland, welcome a different local guest every Monday to “chew the cud” with so to speak. To listen to “Grazing,” it’s posted on Facebook and Instagram about midday every Monday or checkout the media section on our website: www.yourfarmerscoop.com.
Trying New Things
One of the newest events was held at our Bulk Fertilizer Building in Springfield, where we had Santa Paws and Mrs. Paws come for a photo shoot with pets and their families. We partnered up with Critter Fixers to make this happen in mid-November. Critter Fixers is a local non-profit that is working diligently to get a m
uch needed low cost spay and neuter clinic here in Robertson County. We raised over $500 in just a few hours which made both of us happy because we had no idea what we were doing but everything went off without a hitch! Also in 2021, CO-OP entered into the Robertson County Christmas parade for the first time ever. We had so much fun handing out candy, license plates and a few cards that could be redeemed for caps, shirts and hoodies. So many familiar faces were in the crowd that brisk November evening and we had a blast decorating James Neblett’s truck. We’re looking forward to continuing these two events annually so hopefully we’ll see you at them in the future!
Our marketing team has been back at work planning on a few new events to begin in 2022. We’ve been around for so many years and the community has changed so much over the years that we hope to be more active in local events in the future. Feel free to share your farm related pictures with us on our Facebook page or just tag us…we enjoy seeing your farm kids, family, pets and livestock. Stay tuned to see what we have up our sleeves!
