A golden anniversary for Art's Way: Art Luscombe designed the grinder mixer that started it all.When Art Luscombe designed his first PTO-powered grinder-mixer for use on his farm near Dolliver, Iowa Dolliver is a city in Emmet County, Iowa, United States. The population was 77 at the 2000 census. Dolliver was named for United States Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver who was a prominent politician when the town was established in 1900 as a stop on a new railroad line. , he laid the foundation for Art's Way slogan-"A Tradition of Quality". Successors to Art Luscombe's original grinder-mixer have remained the company's most popular product. In addition to being a farmer and inventor, Luscombe was also an entrepreneur. He founded the Art's Way company in 1956 and began building his grinder-mixer line in Armstrong, Iowa Armstrong is a city in Emmet County, Iowa, United States. The population was 979 at the 2000 census. It was originally known as Armstrong Grove. Geography Armstrong is located at (43.395722, -94. . It wasn't long before the company was also doing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and work for other farm equipment manufacturers, including Case, Massey Ferguson Massey Ferguson Limited is a major agricultural equipment manufacturer. Originally started in Canada it became one of the country's largest industrial concerns in the 1960s. , International Harvester and Owatonna. Throughout its 50-year history, Art's Way has grown by developing new products and acquiring complementary product lines in the areas of feed processing, forage blending, land management and sugar-beet harvesting. The Silamix line, a chain mix feed wagon was added in 1966. Weigh Tronix began as an Art's Way line of scale products, providing a way for producers to accurately measure feed ingredients. The scale systems also had a variety of platform and industrial applications. In the early 1980s, Art's Way's acquisition of the Sunmaster product line brought mowers, cutters and shredders to the corporate line, and the acquisition of Heath Farm Equipment added sugar beet harvesters and defoliators. The purchase of patent rights to the John Deere design for a wheel harvester harvester, farm machine that mechanically harvests a crop. Small-grain harvesting has been mechanized to a certain extent since early times. In the modern period the first harvester to gain general acceptance was made by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 (see reaper). led to the industry leader for this niche market. A potato harvester introduced by Art's Way in the late 1980s was another niche market product. Acquisitions completed in the 1990s included the Peerless product line, which enabled Art's Way to offer a rollermill option in its feed processing line; the Eversman line of land preparation equipment and the PreSeeder minimum tillage tool; the Logan product line of potato equipment; the DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). design grain wagon; and several product lines from United Farm Tool, including no-till grain drill, "Speedy" bean cutter, multi-crop shredder and high dump wagon. Art's Way added the SupRaMix, a TMR TMR total mixed ration. TMR 1 Trainable mentally retarded 2 Transmyocardial revascularization, see there vertical mixer, in 1994 and the SSP (1) (Service Switching Point) The local exchange node in an SS7 telephone network. The SSP can be part of the voice switch or in a separate computer connected to it. 150 portable roller mixer in 1996. In 2000, the company started producing the Landstar/KanAm pull type grader to fill in its Eversman land preparation lie. Despite periods of economic downturns in the farm industry that negatively affected equipment sales, Art's Way has survived and prospered. Today, Art's Way is a publicly-traded company led by an experienced board of directors. It still provides OEM work for the industry's leading manufacturers, in addition to producing product lines for its own brands: Art's Way, Peerless Rollermills, SupRaMix and Eversman. * Photo courtesy of Art's Way ** Photo courtesy of Armstrong Journal |
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