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| Leitchfield and Grayson County boast a growing industrial and agricultural economy with a high quality workforce, central location, various incentives, and available established development property. | ||||||||
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We have several industrial sites including the Salt River Industrial Park near Leitchfield (now fully occupied), The Commerce Drive Industrial Park (off the Western Kentucky Parkway) with six acres available, and the Kenneth H. Goth Industrial Park (on Highway 259 north), now home to Trim Masters and Modern Transmission Development (MTD) with 30 acres still open. The city of Leitchfield offers a 90 acre site on Shaw Station Road for industrial development.
Additional
information about the development sites is available from David Bennett,
Leitchfield/Grayson County Industrial Development Foundation at 270-259-0802.
A wide variety of products are manufactured in the fine factories of Grayson County. We produce such diverse items as saw blades, concrete products, cheese, clothing, farm gates, metal stamping, lumber, injection molded plastics, auto seat covers, office furniture, washing machine components and so much more. In all, our manufacturing industries employ more than 3,600 people. Our largest businesses and major employers include: The Campbell group (570 employees), manufacturing power painting equipment, air compressors, winches; Vermont American Corporation (385), saw blades and hedge trimmer blades; Leitchfield Plastics (300), making injection molded plastics; MTD (253), manufacturing components for GE washing machines; Leggett & Platt, Inc. (250), sofa bed mechanisms; Trim Masters (200), auto seat covers for Toyota; Phar-Shar Manufacturing Co. Inc. (200), adult and childrens clothing; IMS Manufacturing Company (183), producing clothing; BEL/Kaukauna USA, Inc. (175), making cream and cheese; OFS Skyline Industries (100), office furniture. Numerous
other smaller industrial facilities and retail establishments of all kinds
enhance our strong economy. Farming is also an important segment of Grayson County and our economy. Nearly 209,000 acres are farmed, primarily in family operations on 1,412 farms that typically include livestock and crops. About half of the farms range from 50 to 179 acres while many others are larger 180 to 2,000-plus acre operations. Beef is our primary livestock product with 751 operations while another 46 farms are dairy operations and there are some hog/pig operations. Breeding stock sales remain strong in the county for cows, horses, and mules while BEL cheese/cream factory is a major local milk buyer. Tobacco is our largest cash crop although we have much corn acreage. Soybeans, wheat, grain, and hay can also be sighted in our fields. For more information about agriculture in Grayson County contact Grayson County Extension Agent Jack Ewing at (270) 259-3492. |
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