A&C Farm and Pet has opened at 1630 E. Main St. in downtown Cortez.

The store officially opened Nov. 1, but will wait for a grand opening when back-ordered sign, shelves and additional inventory arrive.

A&C Farm and Pet offers food and supplies for pets, along with livestock feed and supplies, and will sell live animals such as rabbits and chicks. They may even eventually offer dogs and cats on a limited basis, but that decision is still in the works.

“The primary focus is pet supplies and feed; the secondary focus is on livestock feed and supplies,” owner Clayton Archer said.

Archer said most of the feed that will be found in the store will come from A&C Milling in Montezuma County.

Archer hopes the Main Street store brings additional exposure to their business and make shopping more convenience for customers in town.

“Most of the county doesn’t know we’re here,” Archer said, laughing. “The idea was to really get the word out there. A lot of people come to Cortez to do their monthly shopping, and they come from hundreds of miles away sometimes, and they don’t always drive by us on the highway here north of town.”

“We’re trying to give the option to those people to have something right on Main Street to help service people’s needs,” he said.

In addition to having two locations and offering a wide variety of products, feed and animals to the community, Archer said they put an emphasis on providing local products.

“Our feed that we make on the livestock side is almost entirely locally grown grain,” he said. “We’re really supporting the farmers here. We do everything as locally as possible in everything we do.”

A&C Farm and Pet is open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.