Hamilton County Corn Growers tour Case IH plant

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Friday trip an eye-opening experience

  • Tour guide Tom Ernstmeyer, right, answers a question from one of the members of his tour group as it pauses before a 700 ton press on the floor of the Case IH factory in Grand Island.
    Tour guide Tom Ernstmeyer, right, answers a question from one of the members of his tour group as it pauses before a 700 ton press on the floor of the Case IH factory in Grand Island.
  • Marquette area corn grower Cale Carlson inspects a nearly complete combine at one of the stations along the assembly line at the Case IH plant in Grand Island Friday morning.
    Marquette area corn grower Cale Carlson inspects a nearly complete combine at one of the stations along the assembly line at the Case IH plant in Grand Island Friday morning.
    People who live in south-central Nebraska get to see where some of their food comes from all the time. A short trip to the country will take them past corn and soybean fields, hog operations and pastures of cattle providing meat and milk products. However, the farmers who produce that food don’t often get to see how the tools of their trade are manufactured. A group of about 40 members of the...

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