Happy Holidays Everyone!

Have a safe and happy holiday season and we'll see you in 2010!!

Help Us Welcome "The New Guy!"

Please join us all in welcoming our newest addition to the Haybuster Sales Team! Dirk Gaebe will be taking over as the Territory Manager for the region of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Dirk is actually not a "new guy" to us at all. He has been a member of our Service team for over five years. He has been involved in customer training, delivery and demonstrating Haybuster equipment along with our industrial DuraTech equipment.

Dirk grew up on a dairy farm in western North Dakota and has a B.S. in Agricultural Systems Management. He knows his way around the equipment and we're very excited to have him as part of our Sales team. He is currently traveling around his territory with our V.P. of Sales, Bob Strahm, getting to know some of the dealers in his area. Please help us welcome Dirk Gaebe, we know he will do well for us! Please call the office if you would like his contact information: 800-243-4601.

On to October...

We made it through another busy September! All the farm shows have turned out great so far. We have a few more coming up. World Dairy Expo is going on right now in Madison, WI and Sunbelt Ag Expo is coming up in a few weeks. That show runs October 20-22 in Moultrie, GA.

During the week of the Big Iron Show in Fargo, ND, we had some visitors to the plant in Jamestown. There were about 50 people that came to take a tour of our factory. They came from Kazakhstan and South Africa. We got to show them around and also give them a demo of a tub grinder, a bale processor and a vertical mixer. The people from these countries are getting into cattle farming more and came to learn more about how we operate here. They also visited farms, ranches, feedlots, and other facilities across the state of ND. It was fun to have them here. They were eager to learn and full of questions. Thanks to the ND Trade Office for organizing the visit.

Another Busy Show Week!

Well the Farm Progress Show in Decature, IL went well. The booth was busy for all three days. Today is the start of a packed show week again. Husker Harvest starts today in Grand Island, NE. We are debuting another new machine there. It is the H-1130 Tub Grinder. It's the new version of the H-1100. We've made many improvements and are very excited about this new machine. Check out http://www.huskerharvestdays.com/ for directions to the show. We are in booth 453.

Today is also the first day of Big Iron in West Fargo, ND. We will have the new 2655 Balebuster there along with six other machines. Go to http://www.bigironfarmshow.com/ for directions. We are in booths 0312-0316. It is also the first day of Canada's Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, ON. Go to http://www.outdoorfarmshow/ for more information.

It's exciting that we have new machines to show off at the farm shows. It's always fun to get to show people the new features. I've posted a picture of the new H-1130!

We got a good report back from DakotaFest. It sounds like the people were out even though the weather wasn't exactly cooperating. We're excited to have our new equipment out there, so it's great the people came out to see it.

Al Goehring and Steve Strafford are in Decatur, IL this week working at the Farm Progress Show. If you're in the area stop in at booth 911. Check out their website at www.farmprogressshow.com for more information. I'll give you an update as soon as the guys get back. We've got three shows coming up the week of September 15-17. I'll get you some details soon.

DakotaFest

We have some exciting news about DakotaFest. We will be showing our newly released bale processor! It's called the 2655 Shortcut Balebuster. DakotaFest runs August 18-20 in Mitchell, SD. We will have at least seven machines there, so stop in if you're in the area.

We are very excited about the new 2655 Shortcut Balebuster. We've built on our existing best-selling 2650 Balebuster frame and juiced it up so it will produce a shorter cut end product. We've added more flails, more rotor speed, more slug bars, and more stripper channels. This will be the first trade show we will be showing it, so don't miss out on the debut! We'll see you there!

Show Season

Greetings. We're getting ready here for our upcoming busy farm show season. Our next show is Empire Farm Days coming up next week. It runs August 11-13 in Seneca Falls, NY. If you're in the New York area stop in and visit Steve Strafford at booth 435 and check out some of our equipment. Visit the show website at http://www.empirefarmdays.com/ for more information and directions to the show.



We're excited for this show season to get out there and visit with some of you and display our equipment. We've got a couple of new pieces that we'll be bringing out soon!! I'll keep you updated on the upcoming shows, dates, and locations!

Welcome!

Hello, everyone! I’m Heather Strahm, the Sales and Marketing Coordinator at Haybuster. We have a lot of exciting things going on around the world with our Haybuster agricultural equipment, and plan on using this blog as a way to make it easier for everyone to keep up with all the action. We will keep you updated on trade shows, demonstrations, sales promotions and much more!

Please email me at heather.strahm@dura-ind.com with any questions you would like me to address. I will be working in cooperation with the rest of the sales department, and our service, engineering and parts departments to post useful information for our customers and dealers.

So…Welcome, from the Haybuster family! We are looking forward to the opportunity to share more information with you.