History

A Family Business

Anderson Hay and Grain Co., Inc. earned its reputation for uncompromising quality and dedicated customer service from its very beginnings in the Anderson family farm in Washington State’s Kittitas Valley. In the 1940’s, Clarence Anderson, his son Ron, and other local farmers began supplying Timothy and Alfalfa Hay to horse and cattle buyers. Very quickly, Anderson ascended to the position of being the leading supplier of hay products to the Pacific Northwest and Canadian dairy, beef and horse industries.

In 1985, Ron’s son Mark joined the family business and put a 3rd generation of Andersons on the path set forth by his father and grandfather, that of providing the finest quality hay products to an ever-broadening marketplace.

Going Global

The first link to the International marketplace was made at a Kentucky Derby horse sale where Japanese horse breeders discovered the high quality Timothy Hay being produced in Kittitas Valley and supplied by Anderson Hay and Grain. In 1971 Anderson shipped to Japan the first bale of hay ever commercially exported from the United States to Asia. Anderson’s reputation for consistency, reliability and unparalleled customer service soon forged a solid network of overseas connections in the Pacific Rim and in Europe. Today it remains the top hay exporter in the United States.

Anderson continues to develop and maintain relationships with agricultural officials of many nations. Cooperative efforts have resulted in defining import/export standards that mutually benefit both domestic and international agricultural industries.