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The founders, Mike and Cynthia Ellingson were both raised on farms, Mike in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada and Cynthia in northwest Kansas, USA. Being raised on and having worked on farms from the early 1950's to the early 1990's gave us much experience with the problems and developments associated with the agricultural community. I became especially interested in the work done by Ray Stueckle of Caldwell, Idaho. He had developed methods of modifying a combine to improve both sample quality and capacity. We were struggling with the capacity and the sample quality of a WFE 8800 combine in the early 1970's, so decided to try his methods on this machine. At that time there were no companies supplying all the parts required for these changes so we re-manufactured the parts to achieve the desired results. This also opened our minds to the fact that any machine can probably be fine tuned to perform better for a particular condition, hence we did a few modifications of our own. The net increase in capacity was a conservative 35% combining wheat on a hot dry day. Needless to say it got our attention. One thing really stuck in my mind, every modification did not make a huge difference, but added all together, the change in capacity was beyond our wildest imagination. Since that time, many companies are manufacturing modified and standard replacement parts for most makes of combines on the market today. In the late 70's and early 80's the rotary combines made their appearance, and another trend hit the ag industry. We purchased one in the early 80's and again there was room for a lot of improvement. We were considering a concave modification when to our surprise there was a company already making what we wanted. A purchase was made and it solved our problem. I then reasoned that there were probably others who could use help with their combines and thought if I had some on hand the neighbors would buy 10 or 12 a year. So in August of 1985 arrangements were made to sell a few concaves. Within 4 years we were selling over 100 concaves a year, and in 1992 we decided to leave the farming operation and devote full time to the after market ag parts business. North Dakota, USA just two miles south of the Canada-USA border. The location is unique in that it allows us to import/export goods to both countries with little effort. 1. Products are shipped to Canadians from Carnduff, Saskatchewan, Canada or direct from our Canadian vendors. 2. Products are shipped to Americans from Sherwood, North Dakota, USA or direct from our USA vendors.

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