Left to Right: With sole member-owner Paul S. Cieslewicz at the helm, Sand County Equipment, LLC is a potato and vegetable equipment dealership backed by 25 years of experience and knowledge in planting, spraying, tillage and harvest.
a large steel inventory and custom fabrication services.
installation when the equipment shows up.
What made you decide to get into the potato and vegetable equipment dealership business? My dad told me, “Stay in ag, son. People need to eat.” So, after several years at another equipment dealership, I had a lot of background and thought it would be best to use that knowledge to continue on my own.
Logan bulk beds and stainless bulk beds are really taking off. Built with the farmer in mind, I feel they are at the top of their game.
What is it that draws you to agriculture? The wide variety of challenges—it’s never the same from one year to the next. The people are great to deal with and understand that you’re a human, and you don’t get that out in the big city. No matter what goes wrong, at the end of the day, after everything is working again, we all get along. Have you and Sand County Equipment dug out a niche in the Central Sands area? Yes, I believe we have a few niches in our business. Milestone Potato Seed Cutters are cutting a large percentage of the crop planted in the upper Midwest, and we really try to take care of that, because if you don’t plant a crop, you won’t get a crop, and it all starts at the seed piece. Mayo Manufacturing is working with us on a lot of grading equipment for potatoes. Having engineers on staff to help plan the layout means better
Safe-T-Pull truck hitches and pullers are providing the safest and most economical way to pull
trucks through the fields in tough harvesttime conditions, and the company also builds the Crop Shuttle with the self-loading conveyor and the fastest unload time out there. And Lemken tillage tools are really taking off. With very aggressive discs and rippers, we will put them up continued on pg. 10
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