Tractor Supply Co and Who is Behind The Company

I live out in rural Texas. Formally, rural Colorado. Out in these rural parts, you will always find a Tractor Trailor store.

Tractor Supply’s CEO is Hal Lawton, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Tractor Supply is a publicly-listed company with $13 billion in annual revenue, 46,000 employees, and 2,003 locations in 49 U.S. states. Tractor Supply is specifically marketed to more rural Americans, where their company tagline is “for life out here.”

Most rural communities tend to be conservative and I don't think I need to go into the whys on that...as it is probably an entirely different topic in and of itself.

This is about Tractor Supply Co. Recently, they sponsored a "Family friendly" perv, er, drag queen show here in TX, about an hour and half south of Dallas. The same town where Baylor U is and the famous Chip and JoAnne Gaines of HGTV fame have their Silo compound and work/live.

The event was not located at a Tractor Supply (TS) store, but TS helped to organize the Pride event which was held at Brazos Park East.

This SHOCKED Texans who are being terrorized with drag queen shows in rural communities. They are literally trying to do to Texas what they did to Colorado (watch here) which used to be a very red state.

So, why is Tractor Supply doing this? A company that most rural conservatives assumed must be THE place to go to (over say Lowes, HD, Walmart) and ASSumed was probably in the least, more right leaning of center.

Tractor Supply has ties to the WEF-World Economic Forum. Yup. But in this day and age, are you surprised? I admit, I was.

Tractor Supply has a board of directors composed of 10 individuals. One of them, Joy Brown, is a former executive for Vanguard, an index fund with $5 trillion under management. The three big index funds, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street, substantially financially support the World Economic Forum for the western world, and sources say also for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for the eastern world.

These various funds are also behind the “social credit” and “ESG” left-wing movements among corporate America to force businesses into left-wing economic and cultural compliance. Another current Tractor Supply board member, Thomas Kingsbury, bragged about implementing ESG initiatives while an executive at Kohl’s.

Another Tractor Supply board member Andre Hawaux is a former executive with ConAgra, which has been criticized for using genetically modified organisms to change the genetic composition of its foods which dissident voices say causes sterility.

Oh. It does not just stop at the WEF. They have ties to Epstein too. At this point, who doesn't?

Most shocking is that another board member, Mark Weikel, was the President of Victoria’s Secret from 2003-2007. Victoria’s Secret is owned by Leslie Wexner. During this period of time from 2003-2007, as reported by the New York Times, Jeffrey Epstein had a power-of-attorney document that allowed him to hire, manage, and fire all of Wexner’s employees and manage all of his finances and entities.

I do not own any farm animals and usually have little use for things at Tractor Supply other than maybe pet food or things for my garden. But, I will no longer patronize them. In Colorado, there was Murdock's. Maybe it is time to start digging in to EVERYONE. Even the little mom and pop's.

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I recently sold the family farm in the panhandle of Texas. Been in my family for almost 100yrs.

I would prefer to shop locally at our village Mercantile but Tractor Supply had everything we needed to put an acre into cultivation for our producing community garden/vineyard. I don't care what their politics are when I need quality reliable tools and equipment for our agricultural project. If Tractor Supply was owned by cross dressing, drag queens, Id shop there as long as they stocked the stuff we needed for the garden.

We are blessed to have financial support from the village, county, Catholic Diocese and a few nonprofit food pantries where we donate most of the produce.

Don't let your ideologies get in the way of your common sense.

WEF is burning down a ton of chicken factories as well.

originally posted by: olaru12

I recently sold the family farm in the panhandle of Texas. Been in my foamily for almost 100yrs.

I would prefer to shop locally at our village Mercantile but Tractor Supply had everything we needed to put an acre into cultivation for our producing community garden. I don't care what their politics are when I need quality reliable tools and equipment for our community agricultural project. If Tractor Supply was owned by cross dressing, drag queens, Id shop there as long as they stocked the stuff we needed for the garden.

We are blessed to have financial support from the village, county and a few nonprofit food pantries where we donate most of the produce.

Don't let your ideologies get in the way of your common sense.

Well, I will let my ideologies get in the way when it involves destroying my country.

Id drive out of the way first. Americans not doing this, is part of the problem.

a reply to: olaru12

The problem being discussed all over the internet is feed quality and safety.

I am not saying Tractor Supply is doing anything wrong, because they do not make their own feed. They buy in bulk and it is stuck in a bag with their label, and they sell it as their own. So they are providing their customers with an inferior product and for some, they may actually be providing their customers with a deadly product.

My brother's chickens greatly decreased their egg production recently, when on the TS feed. He had not had trouble with it before. I believe he only got some eggs because they also free range. He stopped feeding them TS feed and his chickens started laying a greater number of eggs. He decided not to take the chance with pre-formulated feed any more, and started making his own feed, now they are laying more eggs than before.

Some folk are saying the the problems with the distribution chain is what is the problem behind a lot of products that have changed in quality. If they don't get what they usually put in their products, they are either just leaving it out or substituting.

I have even noticed this change in my face cream and other products. They are watery, when they have never been that way before.

a reply to: shaemac

The WEF connections would also lead some credence into the issues with chickens not producing eggs for the last few months nationwide. However, per your information, that is only two out of ten members of the board. So they would easily be overruled on anything major.

Secondly, when we were chinchilla breeders years ago we bought almost everything for day-to-day operations from TSC. Each store had its own staff and leadership, this goes for any corporation. They may have some of the same overarching corporate values, however there is some flexibility within the store. For example, we would frequently drive past one TSC to go to one a bit farther away. The staff was friendlier, more helpful, and overall more knowledgeable. The difference was only a few miles, maybe fifteen minutes further, but the staff mindset went from an uppity-suburban type to a rural values type. It was worth the drive.

I'd be willing to bet this is a similar situation. The more liberal leaning staff of one location/district staff was more willing to sponsor this event compared to what a more rural location/district staff would be.

EDIT TO ADD:

As an aside to the feed quality issues: All bags have a guaranteed analysis on them. If you have concerns about the feed quality you can have it tested, typically at a major college with a veterinary science program or through your state's department of agriculture. This is not free, is not cheap, but can provide some possible answers.

a reply to: shaemac

Tractor Supply is a publicly-listed company with $13 billion in annual revenue

Everything you need to know is in that statement. Of course they were invited to the WEF conference.

For some reason, many people with ridiculous sums of money, have incredibly fu##ed up sexual desires.

a reply to: shaemac

Rural King is better. I rarely use TS as it is. Now I will make sure I don't use them at all.

a reply to: olaru12

I recently sold the family farm in the panhandle of Texas. Been in my family for almost 100yrs.

That must've been a hard thing to do.

Sorry to hear it.

originally posted by: olaru12


Don't let your ideologies get in the way of your common sense.

I laugh and laugh ant this part, and I am still laughing, Please tell us where you are from and where do you get your ideologies from? I'd make a guess, but i'd bet everyone else knows this as well. LOL you kill me

originally posted by: olaru12
I recently sold the family farm in the panhandle of Texas. Been in my family for almost 100yrs.

I would prefer to shop locally at our village Mercantile but Tractor Supply had everything we needed to put an acre into cultivation for our producing community garden/vineyard. I don't care what their politics are when I need quality reliable tools and equipment for our agricultural project. If Tractor Supply was owned by cross dressing, drag queens, Id shop there as long as they stocked the stuff we needed for the garden.

We are blessed to have financial support from the village, county, Catholic Diocese and a few nonprofit food pantries where we donate most of the produce.

Don't let your ideologies get in the way of your common sense.

There is a quote often attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin which he probaby didn't actually say, but which is apropos in this context nonetheless:

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

You will water the seeds of your own destruction.

I know most of the people working at our Tractor Supply here and the only kind of a drag show they would have here is a sales pitch for their plows they sell. They do sell some Mini-bikes in the spring, but I doubt if any of those could be used in a drag race.

People go out to drag shows when they happen around here at bars to get laughs, most of the shows are kind of comedy shows and people are drunk that watch them, the vast majority of people who go to them would never go drag. Something to do when you are drunk...a social event to check out the other side of the coin to make sure you can identify if the girl you are hitting on in the bar is really a girl

a reply to: shaemac

I thought sure as cluck this was about the chicken feed.

We don't use anything non-local for our girls, looks like that's a good choice.

Sometimes you gotta drive a little further out to get the good stuff, as an added bonus, you can support local.

Screw TSC.

a reply to: MykeNukem

Yes I wanted to add about tractor supplys chicken feed. It’s making the chickens barren. They are doing it to improve their ESG score....I think China is using them.

a reply to: shaemac
I go to rural king.

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: shaemac

I thought sure as cluck this was about the chicken feed.

We don't use anything non-local for our girls, looks like that's a good choice.

Sometimes you gotta drive a little further out to get the good stuff, as an added bonus, you can support local.

Screw TSC.

I have a thread on that HERE