Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc is a manufacturer with three brand names, all with deep roots in American agriculture. Martin Lorenzen, a German foundryman, originated Pride of the Farm® in 1920 in Marshalltown, IA and then moved to Waterloo, IA in 1923. Brower® was founded by William Brower, in Quincy, IL in 1923. Pride of the Farm® and Brower® consolidated their manufacturing in Houghton, IA in 1985. In 1995, Span-Tech® fabric buildings were developed internally by Hawkeye Steel.

Brower® manufactures animal feeding and watering equipment with emphasis in the poultry market. Brower® also sells a unique line of equipment for small plant poultry processing. Brower® exports its equipment every year to Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean Islands, Asia and Africa.

Span-Tech® fabric buildings are popular for storage of equipment, grain and hay and other materials, for equine riding arenas and for animal production including cattle feeding. Span-Tech® buildings are also popular for storage of corrosive materials such as fertilizer, salt, chemicals and composting animal wastes and mortalities. Open span widths up to 200 feet and more than 250 models are manufactured.

Pride of the Farm® feeds and waters hundreds of thousands of animals in the USA, Canada and Europe. Pride of the Farm® manufactures heated drinkers and energy free animal drinkers, hopper bottom feed tanks and confinement swine equipment. Customers include the very largest cattle feeding and hog production operators.

Pride of the Farm® manufactures equipment for animal production enterprises of all sizes. We have equipment which will take care of one animal. Our hopper bottom bins,
hog confinement equipment, mineral feeders and
drinkers are used by the world's largest cattle feeding,
hog production and cow calf operations.

Our feed storage bins are competitive with other manufacturers in design and pricing. We have significant competitive advantage with our Mini-Bins, available in 1.6 and 2.1 ton capacities.
Our MiniBins have the only spun steel cones offered.
We are proud of our manufacturing skill set on this one.
We start with a circle of flat steel 60 inches in diameter.
We spin it into a cone 57 inches in diameter and 31 inches deep.

Our EZ-Serv pig creep feeder is a unique design—very heavy, no tip over, no springs.
Our sow feeder and feed cart exhibit quality features as well. Our feed cart has heavy duty
casters which you can actually grease.

Heated and non heated drinkers are manufactured in multiple sizes for any herd sizes of sheep, goats, cattle, swine and horses. Polar Max 100% Energy Free Drinkers are really 100% energy free and they work. The energy free product section shows you why our design is highly effective while leaving a zero carbon foot print. It also shows you the reason why the FLAP is king.
See the view above of feed yards using several hundred
of our Polar-Max drinkers.

We dominate the mineral feeder sector with our Dura-Bull and our Indastructa-Bull feeders along with our Insect-A-Sock option. We have another king FLAP—the FLAP on our mineral feeders. We know our flap is good and here’s why we know. We sell thousands of replacement flaps for competitive feeders.

We are blessed in that we love this business.
Thanks to all our great customers—some of whom have been buying for a few decades. We are proud that Pride of the Farm® is an American agriculture icon.

We are also proud of our competitive,
contemporary designs for today’s agriculture.

Yours Truly,
Tom Wenstrand, President
Cindy Wellman, Vice President