SASKATOON (Staff) – From Bangor to Yorkton to Saskatoon, from the rod weeder to the Seed Rite to the Maxim, Morris Industries has grown with the province of Saskatchewan.
President Wendy Morris officially opened the company’s new headquarters and training centre in Saskatoon last week, 65 years after her father George Morris opened his small farm implement garage in Bangor, Sask.
Twenty years later, propelled by the success of his rod weeder, an implement that is still used on the Prairies today, the elder Morris moved to Yorkton.
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Now, boosted by the popularity of conservation tillage and the company’s technological expertise in the field – including air seeders, air drills and seed boots – Wendy Morris has moved the company’s corporate offices to where access is easier for the company’s international clients.
“In order to expand our export markets – and further the growth of the company – it was essential to establish a corporate presence in a major agricultural centre. Saskatoon and Morris represent the ideal fit,” she said.
Morris equipment is sold in the U.S., the Middle East, North Africa, Russia, China, Australia, France and South America.
Implements will still be manufactured in Yorkton and Minn-edosa, Man. and distributed through Morris’s network of 370 American and Canadian independent dealers.
Dealers are shown how to put together the equipment – which is shipped unassembled – at the new Saskatoon training facility.
