distributes a wide variety of crop protection and plant nutritional products. We sell products for agriculture, horticulture, and professional pest control and retail garden centers. S.A.I has direct marketing contracts from the nation’s premier producers: BASF, Bayer, DOW Agrosciences, Gowan, Monsanto, OHP, Everris, Syngenta, Valent and many others. S.A.l has the manufacturing capability to formu
late dusts, flowables, emulsifiable concentrates, and granular products. These production facilities are used for contract packaging and to produce garden center products under the SA-50 and SOUTHERN AG brand names. These products can be found at many garden centers throughout the southeastern United States and certain Caribbean nations. Most important to our customers, our company structure and size lends itself towards quality customer service, competitive pricing and flexible logistics. Customers that are not in our delivery area also will receive excellent services. Orders are often shipped out the same day that the order is placed by freight line, UPS or Fed EX. was started in 1930’s by Hans J. Diem, a Swiss agriculturist with experience in chemical sales. During this time, crop dusting was the common method of pesticide application. The pest management needs were first evaluated then a dust blend was custom made. The company was incorporated in 1947 when Mr. Diem’s son, John, joined the business after WW II. Some of the popular blends included such as Sulfur, Copper, Pyrethrin and Rotenone. Diem trademarked SA-50 which was the name given to the 0.5% Pyrethrin dust. The four blocks on the logo symbolize the Swiss Flag. In the later part of the 1940’s the company started to market many of the new synthetic compounds that were being developed by Bayer, Geigy, Dow, Dupont, and the other industry pioneers. John Robert Diem joined the company after finishing a PhD. His brother, William Diem, who is a CPA manages financial affairs. Today, the business has expanded into golf course, nursery, landscape, and garden center trade with over 80 employees. Southern Agriculture Insecticides is stilled owned and operated by the whole Diem family.
