HISTORY & INNOVATION

Richard F. Reinke founded Reinke in 1954 on a family farm. He began manufacturing structural components for farms and commercial buildings. Over the years, the company’s emphasis moved to the manufacturing of mechanized irrigation systems. Richard was a pioneer in the irrigation industry. Many of his innovations have become industry standards. By staying true to our values of honesty, trust, common sense and tradition, our company has experienced positive growth since its founding. Following in our founder’s footsteps, we continue to develop breakthroughs and refinements for mechanized irrigation equipment.

• First to introduce a fully reversible, electric, gear-driven rubber tire circular irrigation system, the Electrogator®

• First to incorporate interchangeable pipe and truss system

• First to introduce Chromium Nickel Plus water pipe

• First successful aluminum system, the Alumigator®

• First to introduce a trussing system over 210 feet (64 meters) in length

• First to offer breakthrough GPS guidance for swing arm corners and on-machine controls

• First to offer five types of water pipe materials

• First to introduce in-field touch screen controls

• First to develop touch screen controls for variable rate irrigation

• First to exceed industry standards for uniformity of water application with a swing arm corner, theESAC™

• First and only maintenance-free pivot bearing on the market