AgCam: A Second Set of Eyes
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| Cliff Naylor |
| 11/13/2009 |
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| Farmers who need eyes in the back of their heads are getting vision assistance from a small North Dakota business. Thanks to the AgCam, and a dedicated rural workforce, harvesting is no longer a pain in the neck. The extra set of eyes that most farmers would like to have at harvest time can now fit in the palm of their hands. "They`re just a magnetic mount, swivel base," says Tom Sheldon. "You can attach them anywhere you want and if you get them in the wrong spot, they`re real simple to move. Sheldon has AgCams on all the augers that fill up of his grain carts. "It`s one of those conveniences that after you have them you can`t hardly live without them," he says. This little portable camera was born out of necessity by a North Dakota Farmer during the 1999 wheat harvest. "My husband had neck surgery, he had a cervical fusion, we were just beginning combining and he couldn`t see behind him to combine," says AgCam co-owner Charissa Rubey. So after Dave Rubey tried to harvest with the portable cameras that were on the market, he decided to build a better one. Today, his AgCam is sold all over the world. So why has this product, manufactured in a small town, become so popular in the global marketplace? "Its durability, its warranty and it`s made right here in North Dakota," says Shawn Schafer, the the production manager for AgCam. He has shipped cameras all over the world. "Australia, Iceland, China, Canada and I think we`re going into Russia pretty soon," Schafer says. This little camera competes with other vision systems in the global market because it`s as dependable as the rural workforce that manufactures it. "Our warranty repairs last year were less than a half percent because we build a quality product," Rubey says. The 15 full time employees at the Lidgerwood plant can produce 25 cameras a day. The product they solder and assemble is waterproof, features a three year warranty and it isn`t just for farmers anymore. The AgCam provides supplemental visibility for law enforcement squad cars, state highway plows and military vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information on the AgCam, visit the company`s website at www.agcam.com. |
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