Founded in 2017, Patriot Ready Mix is located in Farmington, Missouri, and provides surrounding businesses and residents with high-quality concrete and reliable service right in their hometown. After 19 years in construction-related businesses, Ben Dinkins noticed an increasing need in the Farmington, Missouri, area for a quality, locally owned concrete mix company. “Our area is growing, growing, growing,” Dinkins says. “I thought, you know what, there’s a window of opportunity here to do this.” Dinkins wanted to create an honest, fair-minded and preferable alternative in his community to the larger concrete companies that had formed within the state. After some careful planning and preparation, Patriot Ready Mix launched in August 2017 with one simple motto: “Quality you can build on.” We are the only locally owned ready-mix supplier in the area,” Dinkins says. “That’s important to myself and a lot of others — that you’re spending your money with local people. When you buy from the other guys, the big corporations, that money isn’t going to stay local. It isn’t going to go back into our small town.” Dinkins knows the strength of a tight-knit community and what it means to look out for the little guy. “The goal is to provide better material and much better customer service. I want to earn the customers myself, with my personality and our work as a whole, as a business.