HISTORY OF FARMERS' IMPLEMENT

Farmers’ Implement opened on Main Street in Allenton, Wisconsin, in 1913 as a farmers’ cooperative originally called Farmers Mercantile of Allenton and Kohlsville. The company sold the store in Kohlsville in 1946, and two years later renamed the company Farmers, Inc. It was then divided into General Store, Elevator, and Implement divisions.

In 1949, Farmers, Inc. relocated the Implement division to Railroad Street in Allenton, where it still operates. In 2006, another period of restructuring created the present-day Farmers’ Implement and Farmers’ Grain & Feed, LLC, organizations. In 2007, a second Farmers’ Implement store was launched in Columbus, Wisconsin.

John Hess served as the company’s original general manager, secretary, and treasurer in the early 1910s. Throughout the decades, Farmers’ Implement would benefit and grow under the strong leadership of such owners as Butch and Pearl Eickman, Harold Hess, Dick Heppe, Dave Schellinger, and Terry Theusch. In 2006, the Kreilkamp family acquired the company, successfully expanding it into the construction and landscaping equipment markets since.