“Excuse me miss; may I make a suggestion?” I look up from rolling posters to find a kindly gentleman on the other side of our booth.
“Absolutely!” I respond with enthusiasm.
“You have yourself a GREAT day!” With that, he flashes a grin and is off to spread the merriment elsewhere.
This interaction could easily summarize the entirety of the 2024 Spokane Ag Expo held at the Spokane Convention Center. Old friends and relatives gather, making it feel more like a reunion than a business conference. Each morning kicks off promptly at 9:00am with our own national anthem followed by Canada’s.
Hillco has been attending this event for more than two decades now, just a hop, skip, and a jump from the front entrance in space O42. This year’s eye-catching addition to our booth was the hands-on demonstrations of the Pivoting Spout. Fashioned to a stand with a 12v battery for power, the 37 degrees of rotation beckoned to spectators eager to try the foot rocker for themselves.
Groups gathered to enjoy the live music floating through the Watering Hole by Thirdavenue Payton Rae + Cody!
Other conferences we have attended this year are the Iowa Ag Expo, the National Farm Machinery Show, and the Pape Summit Tradeshow.
If you want better control over where grain lands in the cart, the Hillco Pivoting Spout is a practical upgrade for your Case IH combine. From the cab, a foot switch moves the spout through 37 degrees of travel, allowing you to direct the grain stream closer to or farther away from the combine without repositioning the machine.
Quick Answer: Cutting the net wrap or twine off one bale isn’t something a person thinks much about, but a few hundred bales—that’ll get your attention. At Oshkosh Heifer Development in western Nebraska, experienced hay-grinding professionals Marty Zehr and Tyler Schroeder have put the Hillco Wrap Twine Remover through an extreme-use workload, cutting and collecting net wrap and twine while handling the bale—without crawling in and out of the cab upwards of 400 times a day.
