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Carve Kinze Halloween Pumpkins
As a special thank you to our fans, we created Kinze pumpkin stencils to use this Halloween season! Download the stencils below and get to work creating your Kinze masterpiece. The steps are easy! Download the Pumpkin Stencil of your choice and print to fit your pumpkin.Mark the pattern from the stencil using push pins. Cut out your pumpkin along the solid lines of the stencil.Place a few blue glow sticks or candles in your pumpkin and it's complete! Kinze Pumpkin Stencils Logo StencilDownload Grain Cart StencilDownload Planter StencilDownload
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Kinze is a Johnson Family Farming Tradition
For Jerod Johnson, Kinze planters and grain carts have become part of his family’s farming tradition. His father purchased his first Kinze planter 25 years ago and the Johnson family has been using Kinze equipment on their farms near Avoca, Iowa ever since. Originally, Kinze’s push row units caught the eye of Jerod’s dad. As he learned more about Kinze planters, he decided to switch brands and he purchased his first Kinze planter. Then when the family switched from 6 row to 12 row planting, they stuck with Kinze because of the unique center pivot toolbar, which made transportation between fields easy. Soon after, they purchased a Kinze grain cart with a new upright auger and scale so they could fill semis in...
Great Kinze Innovations: the Brush Type Seed Meter
It was the late 1980s when engineer Harry Deckler came up with a big idea for a new seed meter that would allow farmers to plant soybeans with unmatched accuracy. Deckler was wholly confident in his idea, but his current employer didn’t share his enthusiasm and vision. So Deckler reached out to Jon Kinzenbaw of Kinze Manufacturing. What followed would change the row crop planter industry forever. Until that time, soybeans were planted with a grain drill and were not accurately singulated. Deckler’s idea was to design a disc with seed pockets located around the periphery, which would agitate and singulate the seeds as the disc rotated within the seed reservoir. Kinzenbaw recognized its potential right away. “The companies...
The Yield Advantages of Kinze Split Row Planters
When Kinze introduced the Planter Split Row System with “push-type” row units back in 1983, the basic premise was a row crop planter that was convertible between narrow and wide row spacing. The Split Row Planter, or “Interplant System” as it was also referred to, helped farmers truly “split the rows.” They now had the capability to plant corn (30, 36 or 38 inch rows), then quickly convert to soybeans (15, 18 or 19 inch rows) by engaging the push-type units. Two Crops, One Planter. The Split Row System offered several other advantages compared to the narrow row planters of the day. Staggering the push-type row units and mounting them on twin frames helped improve trash flow and seed placement...
Maintenance Tips to Get Your Grain Cart Ready for Harvest
Harvest season is still a little ways away, but it’s never too early to get your equipment in gear for this year’s haul. Addressing the maintenance needs of your combine is typically the first line of business for most farmers, but don't forget about your grain carts. The grain cart is a hard-working piece of equipment, so you’ll want to be sure it’s in good shape before heading to the field this fall. Here are some preseason preventative maintenance tips for your grain carts. INSPECT AUGERS FOR NOTICEABLE WEAR This is key because over time augers will become smaller in diameter, diminishing their overall performance. Inspect for wear especially where grain transitions from the horizontal to vertical auger or from the...
The Kinze History Book: 50 Years of Disruptive Innovation
"When I started this business 50 years ago, I never once thought of what it might become. I just knew that I didn’t want to work for someone. I had to have room to chase after my own ideas and create things — innovative and new things." – Jon Kinzenbaw We were approaching our 50th year in business and it occurred to some of us —mainly my wife, Marcia, daughter, Susie, son, Jonathan, and a few members of the Kinze Senior Leadership Team — we should do something special to commemorate that half-century. More than just tell the story of how Kinze Manufacturing began and how far we’ve come, we wanted to celebrate its culture, which is the basis of...
Great Kinze Innovations: the Rear-fold Planter
By the mid-1970s, Kinze was growing steadily through sales of its grain carts and anhydrous ammonia applicators, as well as the adjustable width plow licensed to DMI, Inc. Still, Jon Kinzenbaw sensed there was something missing from the Kinze product offering. That big idea that could propel his still-young company to the next level. Lo and behold, the big idea walked right into his shop. In 1975, a farmer from southern Iowa stopped by the shop and commented that somebody should figure out how to fold a big planter horizontally to make it easier to move from field to field. New to the market were 12-row planters that folded upward, which resulted in seed and insecticide being spilled from the hoppers. Folding vertically...
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Introducing the Kinze 50 Year Anniversary History Video
2015 marks a milestone year for Kinze Manufacturing as we celebrate our 50 year anniversary. By now, most of you are likely familiar with the story of how Kinze got started. In 1965, my father Jon Kinzenbaw started a small welding and repair shop in Ladora, Iowa. Dad was only 21 years old at the time, but he had the confidence, creativity and skill set to make something of himself and his small business. In the early years, dad took any job that came through the door – even those that promised little to no profit. He never backed away from a challenge, but instead found ways to overcome it. And, through determination, innovation and unwavering faith, he built that...
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A Tractor & His Boy: a Book About Following Your Dreams
Part of what makes Kinze Manufacturing such a special company are the many rich stories of our founder and president Jon Kinzenbaw. In 2013, we released a children’s book “Big Blue and Polly,” which shared a story of friendship and determination with the next generation of farmers. The book was so well received among kids, teachers and Kinze fans that we got to work on a second book soon thereafter. In December 2014, we released “A Tractor & His Boy,” which is based on the true story of how Jon Kinzenbaw rediscovered his father’s old tractor – The Old H – decades after it was thought to be long gone. This is a story about never giving up on your dreams, a...
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New Kinze Technology Makes Farming Easier
We continue celebrating 50 years of loyalty, innovation and improvements with the next post in our year-long series on Sparks of Innovation, which takes you out in the field to meet our customers and hear why they stay true to blue. This month, we’re visiting Dan Brettnacher of Brookston, Indiana. In the early 1990s, Dan bought a Kinze 2600 planter to plant 15" rows of soybeans. Until then he’d been pretty loyal to another color of planter, but was so impressed with the accuracy and depth control of his first Kinze that he later bought another Kinze planter for his cornfields. Today, Dan uses a Kinze 4900 24-row planter for both corn and soybeans, and he says it makes him feel proud to see...