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Chief Industries' chief concern is satisfying its (primarily agricultural) customers. Through its various divisions, the company makes and distributes grain-drying and storage bins, crop-drying fans, and aeration systems. Its fabrication division manufactures intermodal chassis and custom-metal fabricated parts. Chief Industries even designs and makes programmable message displays used by banks, motels, and shopping centers. Its recreational vehicle division makes RVs under the King of the Road brand name. The building division designs and constructs pre-engineered commercial and industrial buildings to customers' requests.

Columbus McKinnon Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets material handling products and services for commercial and industrial end-user markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers electric and electric wire rope hoists, hand-operated hoists, winches, lever tools, and air-powered balancers and hoists under Budgit, Chester, CM, Coffing, Little Mule, Pfaff, Shaw-Box, and Yale brand names; hoist trolleys; and below-the-hook tooling, clamps, pallet trucks, and textile strapping. It also provides alloy, carbon steel, load, carbon steel welded-link, and kiln chains for use in overhead lifting, pulling, restraining, hoists, load securing, and other non-overhead lifting applications; alloy and carbon steel closed-die forged attachments, including hooks, shackles, hitch pins, and master links for use in chain, wire rope, and textile rigging applications; and carbon steel forged and stamped products, such as loadbinders, logging tools, and other securing devices.

CropKing makes and sells greenhouses, equipment, and supplies for growing hydroponic crops (that is, growing crops without soil in a controlled environment). CropKing's hydroponic greenhouse systems protect crops from environmental elements, allowing year-round production of such plants as tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs. CropKing company sells to hobbyists as well as to commercial customers. It offers grower workshops, videos, and literature through its Web site. Other products include aquaculture (fish farming) systems and mushroom production units. CropKing sells to customers throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Caribbean.

CTB makes automation, feed, and storage equipment for the poultry, swine, grain, and egg industries under such brand names as Agro Logic, Brock, Chore-Time, Fancom, Laake, Mannebeck, PigTek, Porcon, ProTerra, Roxell, Shenandoah, and Uniqfill. CTB's integrated environmental feeding systems for livestock include heating, cooling, and ventilation equipment, as well as poultry nests, incinerators, weigh systems, drinkers, and egg counters, among other products. CTB maintains facilities in Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the US. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway purchased the formerly public company in late 2002 for about $180 million.

Deere & Company, together with its subsidiaries (John Deere) operates in three business segments: agriculture and turf segment, construction and forestry segment, and credit segment. The agriculture and turf segment, created by combining the former agricultural equipment and commercial and consumer equipment segments, manufactures and distributes a range of farm and turf equipment, and related service parts. The construction and forestry segment manufactures, distributes to dealers and sells at retail machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, material handling and timber harvesting. The credit segment finances sales and leases by John Deere dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment. In addition, it provides wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment, provides operating loans, finances retail revolving charge accounts, offers crop risk mitigation products and invests in wind energy generation.

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