In the midst of the Great Depression, Harry and Etta Yetter opened a small machine shop in rural Illinois. Farmers from all over the Midwest flocked to western Illinois to purchase the Yetter solution: a wheel-cleaning device that removed and prevented mud buildup on metal tractor wheels.
“[Harry and Etta] were very down-to-earth people. They came from humble beginnings, and they never forgot that.” – Pat Whalen, Yetter Farm Equipment co-owner 1980–2020, grandson of Harry and Etta Yetter
Over nine decades later, Yetter remains family owned, with Harry and Etta’s daughter, Joan Whalen, taking over leadership in 1975 before being succeeded by her sons, Pat and Bernie, in 1980.
Harry and Etta were dedicated to finding solutions to the problems facing farmers, beginning with the wheel cleaner and then extending into grain elevator equipment and coulter devices.
Yetter Farm Equipment never lost Harry and Etta’s spirit of innovation. After overcoming tough economic times in the 1960s and the 1980s, Yetter began to grow its product lineup. We developed our first lineup of row cleaners in the 1990s and continued to expand into precision fertilizer equipment, strip-till tools, harvest equipment, and closing wheels for planters. In 2011, Yetter acquired AMCO Manufacturing Company, a trusted producer of tillage equipment based in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Today, we are proud to be recognized as the leader in designing tools that prepare the perfect seedbed and drive efficiency in your farming operation, including:
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