The Honey Bee Legacy

A story of two farmers

Our story begins with two farm-raised boys in Bracken, Saskatchewan who were not just farmers but engineers too. Their early years on the farm taught them to fix their own equipment. This lead to a number of side projects that culminated in the production of a 425hp tractor in 1979, which they used to meet their own needs on the farm.

In 1980, Greg and Glenn developed a prototype self-propelled swather. Two years later, this lead to the development of a tractor-mounted swather which the company still manufactures today.

From a 67′ self-propelled swather to a power-unit sprayer combo, they built or adapted nearly everything that they needed for their farming practice. Naturally, the duo began marketing some of their products. The most popular among these was the Grain Belt Header, which offered increased capacity, better cutting, and better feeding. Its rugged and simple design also ensured that the product would be a staple on farms for years to come.

In the fall of 1987, the Grain Belt platform was growing in popularity, so they decided to make the move to Frontier, Saskatchewan. The new location had enough space for increased production capacity and a product line expansion. Today, Honey Bee has over 100,000 square feet of production and warehousing space, enabling them to provide customers from around the world with a diverse offering of draper platforms for a wide variety of crops and conditions.

Honey Bee is evolving the tradition of the draper platform from the Grain Belt and is setting its sights on the future through the new AirFLEX platform, which carries forward the simple robust design of the Grain Belt while meeting the needs of today’s producers. Honey Bee has come a long way from those days back on the farm. With a strong commitment to product research and development, Honey Bee’s objective has always been to manufacture equipment that farmers want and are happy to own.

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