Grant Snyder

Operational for more than 40 years, Ranco Fertiservice is a manufacturer of fertilizer blending and handling equipment. The company provides tank systems, bucket elevators, belt conveyors, and sand and volumetric blenders. It also manufactures U-trough augers, rotary screeners, overhead weigh hoppers, car unloaders, and drag chain and paddle conveyors. Ranco Fertiservice maintains a full-service department that provides equipment installation and millwright solutions. The company s in-house engineering department has capabilities to design small-sized retail plants and large-sized bagging and warehouse facilities.

New Way offers a line of refuse equipment that includes front loaders, rear loaders, satellite bodies, recycling bodies, side loaders and automated side loaders in sizes ranging from six to 43 yards. John H. McLaughlin established the company. It product brands include Cobra, Diamondback, King Cobra, Viper, Mammoth, Western Series and HB. Cobra s standard equipment includes semi-automatic cycling, auto backpack, accelerator kit, auto-lock tailgate, back up alarm in two tones, light bars, LED lights, sight gauge on oil tank, oil pressure gauge, chrome cylinders, side access door, driver alert buzzer, tailgate ajar indicator, bolt on steps on rear, prime paint, pump and rear vision camera. The company offers financing through Wells Fargo Equipment Finance. New Way is headquartered in Scranton, Iowa.

Founded in 1928, the Kay Dee Feed Company is a manufacturer of livestock supplements. The company produces more than 70 different livestock supplements, including. Super Ranger Kaydets, a specially formulated mix of ingredients that are formed into beaded granules that flow freely from each bag eliminating caking in bags or feeders. Kay Dee Super Ranger Kaydets are available with phosphorus mixtures that range from 8.2 percent to 15 percent. The company also markets Super Ranger CLR Kaydets that are specially formulated for calving, lactating and rebreeding cows. In addition, Kay Dee markets a complete line of protein blocks that help improve livestock productivity, as well as an economy line of mineral supplements for cattle, hogs, sheep and horses. The company s mineral supplements, protein blocks and energy tubs are marketed through feed dealers in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. Kay Dee Feed Company is in Sioux City, Iowa.