Progressive Farm Products was purchased by Kongskilde Industries Inc. in June of 2010.

Kongskilde Industries Inc is a part of the Global Kongskilde group-based in Denmark, and has been responsible for sales of Kongskilde Products for Industrial recycling and pneumatic conveying equipment for the print, plastics and packaging industries. Kongskilde also specializes in grain conveying and cleaning equipment, and livestock products for disease control, throughout North America. Presently Kongskilde's Soil Preparation equipment is marketed in North America via Kongskilde Limited located in Strathroy, Ontario. With this acquisition, Kongskilde is now able to provide a complete range of fertilizer application and soil preparation equipment from one source, consolidating its North American activities into one location at the current Progressive Farm Products site north of Normal, Illinois.

This facility has given Kongskilde a much-need production facility for our current soil preparation equipment as well as continued production of the Progressive fertilizer application equipment and strip tillage product program. The Progressive Farm Products will continue to be marketed under this brand name and offered via Kongskilde's extensive dealer network throughout North America also via our sister Companies in Europe and South Africa.

Progressive Farm Products has built a solid reputation within the fertilizer application and strip tillage equipment area throughout the United States and parts of Eastern Europe. This has been largely due to Progressive Farm Product's founder, Richard Follmer and his innovative and leading equipment designs. These designs have resulted in several patents and patent applications being granted. Richard remains an integral part of Kongskilde's R & D staff.

Progressive Farm Products remains dedicated to conservation tillage with strip till equipment

Progressive Farm Products is the first and only manufacturer offering conservation tillage equipment designed specifically for strip till applications. From its beginning in 1981, when owner Richard Follmer started building conservation tillage systems in his machine shed, through his invention of the patented mid-mount dual placement strip till tool bar in 1996, to today's position as America's only one-stop shop for strip till equipment, Progressive has led the industry with a multitude of revolutionary toolbar designs dedicated to conservation tillage.

"We're the only company in the U.S. that offers a farmer virtually any size tool bar he wants up to 24 rows, with any type fertilizer applicator he wants," Richard Follmer says proudly. "It's taken 18 years to get to this point, struggling while everybody thought we were nuts. But it feels mighty good to be where we are right now."

Follmer still spends every dry day in the field during growing season, and the rest of his time working with his wife, Billie, and their staff at Progressive to develop more conservation tillage solutions for the problems farmers face.

"I love to design, I love to manufacture and I love conservation tillage farming." That's why he does what he does, and why Progressive Farm Products is the leader in strip till equipment manufacturing.

View more about our history with conservation tillage and strip till farming