Company Offers Complete Farm Equipment Setup

2012 - Volume #36, Issue #5, Page #09

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After more than 25 years of setting up, operating, and maintaining large equipment on his own farm, Dave Houtwed saw a need for a company that could offer a setup service and keep up on the latest technology for farmers.
  So, 5 years ago he and his friend, Alan Crotts, started up Precision Ag Solutions, a Cunningham, Kan., company that designs and installs fertilizer systems and rebuilds air seeders. They offer complete farm equipment setup and reconditioning and will come out to your farm, provided it’s less than 200 miles away from their home base.
  “Farm equipment keeps getting bigger and more technical, so it’s getting harder for the average farmer to figure out how to make all this precision technology work,” says Houtwed. “Our goal is to help farmers make decisions and set things up. We work in cooperation with both dealers and farmers to set up any model of new equipment.”
  The company offers complete planter setup, from assembling the planter to all the latest in precision planting: liquid fertilizer, herbicides, row shutoff, mounting saddle tanks, and plumbing saddle tanks. They also do complete strip-tiller setup and will assemble machines from factory crates, mount liquid tanks, install Raven controllers, plumb liquid and NH3 with sectional controllers.
  The company also reconditions planters, drills, disks, row crop heads, etc. at your location.
  Four different work crews are employed. Two crews set up fertilizer systems, one rebuilds air seeders, and one handles equipment.
  “Most of the work we do is on new machines,” says Houtwed. “For example, the dealer sells the farmer a new planter and then we ask the farmer what kind of fertilizer equipment he wants. We’re willing to customize according to the customer’s needs and rig up plumbing to tie all this stuff together.
  “A lot of our work is on new Deere equipment because Deere offers a lot of advanced GPS and electronic equipment so we plug into that stuff. If necessary we’ll design and build our own mounting brackets,” says Houtwed.
  Reconditioning planters and drills to like-new condition can really pay off, says Houtwed. “We can replace all the worn parts, including disks, scrapers, bearings, and chains, for about 20 percent of the cost of trading for a new planter.”
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Precision Ag Solutions, 30411 N. Hwy. 281, Pratt, Kan. 67124 (ph 620 933-2026; precisionagsolutions@gmail.com; www.precisionagsetup.com).

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Company Offers Complete Farm Equipment Setup SPECIALTY/SERVICES After more than 25 years of setting up operating and maintaining large equipment on his own farm Dave Houtwed saw a need for a company that could offer a setup service and keep up on the latest technology for farmers So 5 years ago he and his friend Alan Crotts started up Precision Ag Solutions a Cunningham Kan company that designs and installs fertilizer systems and rebuilds air seeders They offer complete farm equipment setup and reconditioning and will come out to your farm provided it’s less than 200 miles away from their home base “Farm equipment keeps getting bigger and more technical so it’s getting harder for the average farmer to figure out how to make all this precision technology work ” says Houtwed “Our goal is to help farmers make decisions and set things up We work in cooperation with both dealers and farmers to set up any model of new equipment ” The company offers complete planter setup from assembling the planter to all the latest in precision planting: liquid fertilizer herbicides row shutoff mounting saddle tanks and plumbing saddle tanks They also do complete strip-tiller setup and will assemble machines from factory crates mount liquid tanks install Raven controllers plumb liquid and NH3 with sectional controllers The company also reconditions planters drills disks row crop heads etc at your location Four different work crews are employed Two crews set up fertilizer systems one rebuilds air seeders and one handles equipment “Most of the work we do is on new machines ” says Houtwed “For example the dealer sells the farmer a new planter and then we ask the farmer what kind of fertilizer equipment he wants We’re willing to customize according to the customer’s needs and rig up plumbing to tie all this stuff together “A lot of our work is on new Deere equipment because Deere offers a lot of advanced GPS and electronic equipment so we plug into that stuff If necessary we’ll design and build our own mounting brackets ” says Houtwed Reconditioning planters and drills to like-new condition can really pay off says Houtwed “We can replace all the worn parts including disks scrapers bearings and chains for about 20 percent of the cost of trading for a new planter ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Precision Ag Solutions 30411 N Hwy 281 Pratt Kan 67124 ph 620 933-2026; precisionagsolutions@gmail com; www precisionagsetup com

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