Krone North America Company Information

The year 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the Krone Company. 100 years ago Bernard Krone established a blacksmith shop in the village of Spelle in the Emsland Region of Germany. Today Krone is a global company with farm equipment distribution in 45 different countries, North America being their largest Ag export country. Considering the Semi Trailer Manufacturing Group, the Agricultural Retail Sales Group and the Ag Manufacturing Group, worldwide sales for Bernard Krone Holding GmbH in 2004 were in excess of $875,000,000.

The last 10 years have seen a dramatic change in the product lines offered by Krone as new machine technology has emerged at an extremely fast pace to serve the specialized needs of larger farming operations and commercial operators. Innovative new products such as the Big Pack Square Balers, the Big M Self-Propelled Mower Conditioner, the Big X Self-Propelled Forage Harvester and the Easy Collect Cornhead have forever changed the face of hay and forage harvesting, not only for the Krone Company, but for the industry as well.

A new generation of the Krone Big Pack Big Square Balers will be introduced for 2006. This third generation of Big Packs continues the Krone design and performance advantages of the previous two genereations making the Big Pack one of our fastest growing product segments.

Design innovation has not stopped with the larger machines as Krone rolls out 25 new core products for the 2006 season. New models of EC Three Point Hitch Mowers, EC Pull Type Mower Conditioners, SW Rotary Rakes, KW Tedders and CP Round Balers are included as part of Krone’s 2006 product line. These new products and their innovative features are on the leading edge of hay and forage technology.

100 years is a long time. At Krone North America we are pleased to have been a Krone daughter company for 33 of those years. On behalf of all the employees at KNA we appreciate the efforts of our dealers and customers who have helped  us achieve a consistently growing level of sales.

Best Regards,

Rusty Fowler
President/CEO
Krone NA, Inc.