Here’s What Our Customers Say
Season after season. Year after year. Decade after decade. We rely on you to tell us what we’re doing right and how we can improve. Read what real Kinze customers have to say about Kinze Manufacturing throughout the years.
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Kinze Salutes U.S. Servicemen and Women
Veterans Day, observed on November 11 of each year, is the day that we as Americans ensure veterans know how deeply we appreciate the sacrifices they have made in order to keep our country free. Through the years, Kinze has been honored to work with so many veterans as customers and co-workers. Today, 16 veterans are part of the Kinze team, and we’d like to express how grateful we are for all that they have done for our company – but more importantly, what they have done for our country. Kinze salutes all of our U.S. Servicemen and Women for their dedicated and loyal service. God bless each and every one of you.
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Kinze Founder Jon Kinzenbaw Inducted Into AEM Hall of Fame
WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa – (November 5, 2015) – Fifty years after opening his small welding shop, Jon Kinzenbaw, Kinze® Manufacturing, Inc.’s founder, president and CEO, has been inducted into the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Hall of Fame. Kinzenbaw’s induction is a result of the impact that he and Kinze have had on the industry. The AEM Hall of Fame honors individuals in the off-road equipment industry, pioneers who have advanced the industry through their inventions, management and leadership. Kinze’s early innovations were largely influenced by Kinzenbaw and his innovative spirit. Since its founding in 1965, Kinze’s innovations have blazed the trail in ag equipment manufacturing. From their first 435-bushel two-wheel grain auger cart, to the very first rear-fold planter, to the first commercially available electric drive multi-hybrid planter, Kinze innovations continue to break the mold. Kinzenbaw’s legacy has been established through his business model, devoted to developing new ways to make life...
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Ohio Farmer Knows He Can Count on Kinze
Today, Sparks of Innovation takes you to De Graff, Ohio, where Steve Schlumbohm has been planting corn and soybeans with Kinze planters since 1978. Steve said he’s always liked the design of Kinze equipment and how it’s built. But that’s not the only thing that keeps him coming back to Kinze. “It comes back to the support system of the company, how good Kinze supports you and how good they make their products in the first place. You don’t have to have a lot of backup, but when you do, Kinze and our dealership have always taken care of us,” said Steve, who currently owns Kinze 4900, 3660 and 3600 planters. Watch the latest installment of Kinze in the Field to see why Steve believes Kinze cares for its farmer customers better than anyone else in the field. And click here to view his full testimonial.
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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 the field. Last fall, Jerod drove his combine to the edge of the field and invited his daughter’s preschool class to sit in the cab. He demonstrated unloading corn into...
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 were holding Harry back and wouldn’t let him move forward with his product idea. So he came to me and said he had an idea to build a soybean meter...
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 accuracy, provided better weight distribution across the planter frame, and improved row unit access for ease of maintenance. It’s easy to see then why so many blue planters started...
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 lower to upper vertical auger. These grain transition areas are high wear areas and when worn cause slow unload times and extra strain on other driveline components. CHECK THE PTO/DRIVE...
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 our success. We decided that a book was a way of telling our story that would stand the test of time. (Purchase the book here.) Fifty more years from now, regardless of...
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Kinze Celebrating 50 Years This Summer
After fifty years in operation, Kinze reflects on their first half-century of innovation in the agriculture industry. Read the history from: CropLife Journal Tribune AgriMarketing Corn & Soybean Digest Agriculture.com Ag Professional Farm Equipment