UWRF and Case IH sign 10-year lease agreement
Students, faculty, university officials and employees of CASE IH and Value Implement of Menomonie and Osseo gathered at UW-River Falls Wednesday to sign a 10-year lease agreement. The deal partners the three companies and will bring the latest Case IH equipment to campus each year.
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RIVER FALLS - Students, faculty, university officials and employees of CASE IH and Value Implement of Menomonie and Osseo gathered at UW-River Falls Wednesday to sign a 10-year lease agreement. The deal partners the three companies and will bring the latest Case IH equipment to campus each year.
Students of the college of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science (CAFES) will use all kinds of equipment including tillers, planters, combines, tractors and smaller implements. Students will clean and maintain the equipment plus provide feedback to Case about their experiences using it.
Chancellor Dean Van Galen, Manager of Government Sales for Case Patricia Lardie, Manager of Value Implment in Osseo Jeff Rohrscheib and the Dean of CAFES Dale Gallenberg, all signed the agreement to make it official.
Lardie said the deal evolved from a small group of colleagues asking, “what if?”
Gallenberg said, “This is the kind of day a lot of us work for.”
Van Galen recognized the students’ role in the deal, called the partnership a “good investment” and said, “This benefits much more than our lab farm.”
Rohrscheib said the lease agreement will help enable precision farming to become more efficient and that the equipment will run on bio-fuel produced on the UW-RF campus.
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