Delta Group - Belzoni

The Ayres Company began in January 1938 when William Emmitt Ayres and his son, Victor Leo Ayres of Leland, Mississippi accepted a farm equipment dealership from J.I. Case Company of Racine, Wisconsin. William Emmitt Ayres had recently retired from his 17 years (1920-1937) serving as the superintendent of Mississippi State University’s research center at Stoneville, MS to become the President of the National Soybean Growers Association. William used this experience and his reputation as the leading soybean authority and outstanding cotton breeder to form the farm equipment dealership and seed company, Ayres Company. The company’s goal was to serve the farmers of the Mississippi Delta with quality goods and honest service. In September 1938, William Emmitt Ayres passed away leaving his son Victor to continue operating the dealership under the same principles in which they had founded it. For many years the company was revered by local farmers as a company
with integrity and outstanding service. Making it one of the most prosperous in the
Mississippi and Arkansas Delta.

In March 1987, the Ayres Company and Delta Implement Company, a long time International Harvester dealer merged operations and established the current farm equipment corporation, Ayres-Delta Implement, Inc. Which has four locations in Leland, Greenwood, Belzoni and Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Ayres-Delta Implement, Inc. is owned and managed by four third-generation family members of the original founders: Stanley Ayres, Richard Cousino, Joe Nash, and Terry Gibbs.