About Reinke

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 Richard F. Reinke, founder of Reinke Manufacturing Co., Inc., was a pioneer in the irrigation industry. Many of his innovations he conceived have become standards for the industry throughout the world.

Richard, the youngest of twelve children, helped with his family's 480 acre farm near Byron, NE USA where he could pick 125 acres of corn by hand himself. Given his background in agriculture and his desire to build things, at age 15 he purchased educational material in engineering, architecture and draftsmanship determined to invent a better future. It took Richard's "waste not, want not" attitude to turn his inventions and passion for agriculture into the world leader in mechanized irrigation system technologies.

Today, most mechanized irrigation systems incorporate many of the concepts, inventions and patents he introduced during his lifetime. So the next time you see a center pivot effortlessly moving around the field, you can thank Richard Reinke for that. 

 In this day and age, you don't often find a worldwide industry leader operating in the same place as where it was founded. But, that's the way it is with Reinke. We're still in Deshler, Nebraska, the original location established by founder Richard Reinke in 1954. We choose to remain in Deshler – America's heartland – close to our roots and our customers because that's who we are. We live and work among the growers of this country and our dealers live and work among the growers of countries all over the world. We're a global leader in irrigation products, but we're a hometown business at heart.