ACGC students Lilah Heinz, Ryan Martens, Rylee Robson, Hudson Gilland, Ava Sneller, Hunter Kress, Shelby Gustin and Kinnick Froehlich toured Kinze Manufacturing.
By Rich Wicks | Times Vedette
Members of the Panorama and ACGC FFA chapters each separately visited Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg on their way to the National FFA Conference and Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The ACGC group was accompanied by FFA Advisor Skie Shull.
“My students are taking a tour of the Kinze plant today on our way to National FFA convention. We try to get a variety of different tours and manufacturing and animal products, all sorts of different agriculture,” Shull said. “It’s a great stop for students to take on their way to national convention. I think it’s very neat that the students get to experience this.”
For the Panorama group, Steven Hameister attended as FFA Advisor, and Angie Clouser as chaperone.
“I’ve been bringing FFA students to Kinze since 2019. We try to stop every year as it is a great place to learn about famous Iowans in agriculture,” Hameister said.
Each year, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. welcomes hundreds of FFA students to the Kinze Innovation Center on their way to and from the National FFA Convention and Expo.
Founded 59 years ago, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. markets planters and grain carts globally. Many Kinze employees spend nights and weekends farming, putting them in a unique position to be both manufacturers and customers of the planters and grain carts they build.
Panorama students and staff pose at Kinze Manufacturing. Front: Malia Jacobsen, Brooklyn Haines, Ava Thompson, Maddy Carstens and Sam Hansen. Back: Mrs. Clouser, Kelsey Laabs, Danica Isom, Ashton Kunce, Sawyer Simmons, Cody Kastner and Mr. Hameister