Dasco keeps focused on diverse needs
of each and every customer
Staying focused on the diverse needs of each and every customer is key for Dasco, Inc.
“Customer service is everything to our business,” said David Adams, who co-owns the business with his wife, Anita. “Customers hire us to provide a service they either can’t do themselves or feel we can do better. If we don’t have the best customer service in the industry, we wouldn’t have customers.”
Located at 1455 Central Drive in Presque Isle, Dasco, Inc. provides custom application of farm, forest, industrial and food processing amendments and protectants.
“Farmers, forest landowners, industrial landowners and municipalities generally hire a company to come and apply things like lime, fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides for them if they are not equipped to do it or just don’t have the time,” said Adams.
“Eighty percent of our sales are ag related,” he said, noting that Dasco is open seasonally seven days a week as needed.
A certified crop adviser, Adams brings 20 years of experience to the table.
“I have a lot of experience in understanding soil science and soil testing and making recommendations,” he said. “I’m not going to sell people something the ground doesn’t need.”
Adams was living in Massachusetts when he was asked to come to northern Maine “to help figure out how to prepare Russet potatoes for harvest.”
“Our business started back in 1989 in Aroostook County just applying vine desiccation for potatoes,” he said. “Survival of a business in Aroostook County takes an awful lot of diversity and willingness to go in new directions whenever things change.
“We went from vine desiccation and added fertilizer spreading on peas in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. Then we added lime spreading, calcium chloride applications for dust control on forestry and municipal roads, and then we added forestry herbicide applications where we were spraying plantations to prepare them for new trees to be planted,” said Adams. “You have to diversify to stay in business and that’s what we’ve done.”
For information, call 764-7717 or e-mail dave@dascoinc.net.
