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Leading Edge Industries introduces Bin SumpPRO for Bin Cleanout

The new, patent-pending Bin SumpPRO™ system from Leading Edge Industries remedies grain bin sump flow issues by breaking up the clumps that would normally plug the sump. There are two patented countermeasures that allow the Bin SumpPRO to accomplish its objective. First, it breaks up all types of clumps and ice above the floor.

Bin SumpPRO - Grain Net / Mar 8, 2021

Beaters and Blades: New Tech Targets Grain Bin Deaths

Grain bin death is a reality for dozens of farmers every year, but Shawn Gengerke, producer and CEO of Leading Edge Industries, believes he has found an unparalleled safety solution. Entrapments have long been a macabre cost of doing business in agriculture, but a new technological innovation may help keep farmers permanently out of bins and beyond the reach of gruesome death.

Bin SumpPRO - Farm Journal / Sept 22, 2020

SD company unveils bin sump clearing system at Big Iron

The annual Big Iron Farm Show at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds aims to show farmers the latest in technology and equipment. This year’s 40th show featured a new product that aims to reduce work and improve safety for farmers facing clumping in their grain bins.

Bin SumpPRO - INFORUM / Sept 17, 2020

Groton business’ new product designed to address grain bin sump plugging

The new Bin SumpPRO system from Leading Edge Industries in Groton remedies grain bin sump flow issues by breaking up the clumps that would normally plug the sump, according to a news release from the business.

Bin SumpPRO - Farm Forum / Sept 17, 2020

SD company unveils bin sump clearing system at Big Iron

The annual Big Iron Farm Show at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds aims to show farmers the latest in technology and equipment. This year’s 40th show featured a new product that aims to reduce work and improve safety for farmers facing clumping in their grain bins.

Bin SumpPRO - Duluth News Tribune / Sept 17, 2020

New kit dislodges material from grain bin sumps

After Shawn Gengerke, a fifth-generation producer in Groton, S.D., heard that some friends of his family had experienced a grain bin tragedy, he wanted to do something about it. In fact, Gengerke nearly had a grain bin accident himself a year later. “The year after that happened, we had a large bin plug which cost us a lot of time, stress and money to get the grain out,” said Gengerke, CEO and founder of Leading Edge Industries.

Bin SumpPRO - Prairie Star / Sept 15, 2020

New invention from Groton company aims to reduce grain bin accidents

A Groton company is trying to solve one of the most dangerous problems to South Dakota farmers and producers with the release of a new product. The Bin Sump-Pro is designed to break up clumps of grain and ice that can plug the bottom of grain bins, eliminating the need for farmers to climb into bins to unplug them, or spend thousands of dollars to cut open the bin. The product is designed to fit in most bins already built, saving farmers time and money as well. Shawn Gengerke, founder and owner of Leading Edge Industries which produces the Bin Sump-Pro, said that the continued danger of grain bins is what drove the company to innovate.

Bin SumpPRO - Dakota News Now / Aug 28, 2020

Plug buster arrests ‘killer grain bins’

South Dakota grain grower Shawn Gengerke said a plugged bin sump three years ago tried killing him, not once, but twice. Adding insult to injury, the incident cost him US$15,000. “That was when I decided we had to put an end to this plugged auger problem that’s killing and maiming farmers every year,” said Gengerke last week.

Bin SumpPRO - Western Producer / Aug 27, 2020

Capture More Bushels With Operation Harvest Sweep

Last fall, Jeff Kippley was amazed at the numbers he saw on his yield monitors. For the first time, his combine with an older John Deere 1290 head was capturing more bushels than the newer John Deere 612 corn head.

HARVEST SWEEP - Successful Farming / AUG 31, 2016

New Product Cuts Grain Loss In Field

In a world of $3 corn, farmers looking for higher yields may not have to look much further than what's already in their field. Operation Harvest Sweep, a product sold by Leading Edge Industries based in Groton, is a chain that can be attached to a combine and has been found to reduce up to 85 percent of shatter loss during harvest, according to the company's vice president of marketing and sales, Lucas Pearson.

HARVEST SWEEP - Mitchell Daily Republic / AUG 17, 2016

2016 FinOvation Award Winners

The readers of Farm Industry News selected Operation Harvest Sweep as one of the top product introductions of 2015. This is the second year in a row for Leading Edge Industries, which earned a FinOvation award last year for the Load Judge.

HARVEST SWEEP - Farm Industry News / JAN 4, 2016

South Dakota Company Offers Corn Head Kits

Leading Edge Industries Inc. of Groton, S.D., this year launched a new product - Operation Harvest Sweep - an attachment kit that installs on corn headers to reduce shatter loss.

HARVEST SWEEP - Agweek / NOV 30, 2015

New Technology Helps Corn Farmers with Harvest

For the past sixty years, farmers have dealt with corn shatter. This is when the kernels fall off the cob when they are removed from the earth, leading to financial losses.

HARVEST SWEEP - KSFY/KDLT Television / NOV 10, 2015

Reduce Shatter Loss with Operation Harvest Sweep

Since the corn header was invented in 1954, shatter loss has been an issue during harvest. In the best of conditions, the loss may be minimal. But in stressed corn, it can result in a 7- to 8-bushel-per-acre loss. Shawn Gengerke, CEO and founder of Leading Edge Industries, decided this loss was no longer acceptable.

HARVEST SWEEP - Successful Farming / SEPT 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Focuses on Efficiency, Problem Solving

Shawn Gengerke doesn’t want to build a better mousetrap. Instead, the fourth-generation South Dakota farmer’s focus is on building first-of-a-kind products that can solve decades-old problems.

LOAD JUDGE &HARVEST SWEEP - Emerge / SEPT, 2015

Two ‘Leading Edge’ Innovations for Corn Growers

In the past four-and-a-half years, he has launched two patent-pending technologies with his Load Judge and the Operation Harvest Sweep, both designed to enhance on-farm efficiency.

LOAD JUDGE - CountryGuide / APR 1, 2015

The Load Judge Receives Two Awards for Product Innovation

Leading Edge Industries recently received an AE50 award and a Finovation award for The Load Judge, a breakthrough technology designed to help farmers and grain haulers save time and money when loading grain.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm & Livestock Directory / MAR 24, 2015

Load Judge AE50 Award

Farm Catalog magazine acknowledges The Load Judge for its AE50 award.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Catalog / January, 2015

2015 FinOvation Award Winners

The readers of Farm Industry News selected The Load Judge as one of the top product introductions of 2014.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Industry News / DEC 31, 2014

Grain Loading Just Got Easier

Load Judge technology offers efficiency and accuracy. Shawn Gengerke was plagued by the triune scourges of grain loading-dust, dirt and darkness. The Groton, S.D., farmer was frustrated by the grind of extra labor, failed technology and ill-health directly related to the inefficiencies of grain loading.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Journal / DEC 6, 2014

AE50

The Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers selects The Load Judge as one of the 50 most innovative products of the year.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Equipment / DEC 31, 2014

Farm Progress Show 2014: Best Of

Ag industry editors select The Load Judge as one of their favorite new products from the 2014 Farm Progress Show.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Progress Show / AUGUST, 2014

Grain Gauge

The challenges of monitoring grain in dusty, dirty, and dark conditions are a reality Shawn Gengerke has had to deal with for far too long.

LOAD JUDGE - Successful Farming / FEBRUARY, 2014

Precise Grain Loading From the Cab

A new technology is hitting the market that will allow for precise grain loading that can be monitored from the comfort of a semi cab.

LOAD JUDGE - Farm Industry News / DECEMBER, 2013

Every Load on the Money

Loading grain trucks has never been easier for Shawn Gengerke, of Groton, S.D.

LOAD JUDGE - Dakota Farmer / 2013

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