Kinze manufacturing: innovation spells success.

The company is now in the process of introducing the next generation of technology to hit the market: precision planters.

"The all-new KINZE Vision system utilizes a full-color, touch screen display to manage KINZE's electronic seed monitoring," Veatch explains. "It also includes our all-new variable-rate hydraulic drive system and air-actuated, single row clutches for manual or GPS auto swath control."

The control system was developed in partnership with Ag Leader Technology.

It's innovations like these that will solidify KINZE as a leader in the farm equipment industry for years to come.

WHAT'S IN A NAME AND A LOGO?

In high school, Jon Kinzenbaw began using the name Kinze because it was shorter and simpler than Kinzenbaw. He reports, "In 1967, a friend created the KINZE Man logo, using the "K" to form the figure and the index finger to dot the 'I' on KINZE."

by Lynn Henderson, Editorial Director

SUPPORTING THE FUTURE

Last year Jon and Marcia Kinzenbaw established the KINZE Manufacturing Professorship in agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University.

"Providing a professorship to the faculty at Iowa State in ag machinery will further enhance the machinery industry," Kinzenbaw says. "The faculty also will have an impact on the students they teach, helping them deepen their passion for agriculture."

KINZE's founder and owner also established the Jon and Marcia Kinzenbaw Scholarship in agriculture which is an endowment benefiting one ag student each year.

SELECTING A COLOR

In 1982 KINZE started to paint all of its equipment blue. Prior to that, only its grain wagons were.

Why blue? "It was my mother's favorite color," Kinzenbaw says.

ABOUT KINZE MANUFACTURING

1965 KINZE Welding founded. Develops the first auger unloading wagon.

1968 Custom fabricates three wheel, high-floatation fertilizer and crop protection applicators.

1971 Develops two-wheel auger wagon. Develops high clearance, hydraulically adjustable moldboard plow which is subsequently licensed to DMI.

1975 Develops Rear Fold planter.

1976 Company moved to its current location near Williamsburg, IA.

1978 Constructs KINZE signa featuring blue grain cart.

1982 All KINZE equipment is painted blue.

1988 Forms KINZE Power Products to re-power John Deere tractor engines.

1990 Introduces Brush-Type Seed Meter as an alternative to air/vacuum metering systems for soybeans.

Throughout the '90s and 2000s: introduced continual improvements and broadened its planter product line.

2002 Display of vertical planter pulled by green and red tractor constructed.

2007 Company is awarded its 31st patent. Jon Kinzenbaw, alone, receives half of them. Opens new training facility.