Ag Growth Income Fund
is a leading manufacturer of portable grain handling and conditioning
equipment including augers, belt conveyors, grain handling accessories
and grain aeration equipment. Ag Growth’s North American sales,
marketing and distribution system includes approximately 1,400 dealers
and distributors in forty-eight states and nine provinces.
Ag Growth was established in 1996 and launched an Initial Public
Offering in May 2004. Ag Growth has pursued a strategy of organic
growth complemented by strategic acquisitions to become the preferred
supplier of high quality grain handling equipment and related products
for both dealers and farmers. Acquisitions in support of this strategy
included Batco Manufacturing (specialty crop belt conveyors), Wheatheart
Manufacturing (grain handling equipment) and Westfield Industries
(portable grain augers). The most recent acquisition was of Edwards
Group (aeration and grain drying equipment), completed in April 2005.
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