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A Midwest home for a glob<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / BROOKE TAYLOR<br />
Steven Franks, Tammy Brown, Luke McGuire, Elia Gnesutta, Flippo Lavelli, Nate Wolf, Justin Jones, Barbara Carpenter and Sarah Thuenen are<br />
the team at Maschio Gaspardo’s North American headquarters located in DeWitt.<br />
Italian ag machinery maker with facilities worldwide<br />
plants its North American roots firmly in DeWitt<br />
BY NANCY MAYFIELD<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER<br />
Visitors who walk into the lobby<br />
at Maschio Gaspardo in De-<br />
Witt are greeted by a sign that<br />
bids them “Benvenuti.”<br />
That’s Italian for “welcome.”<br />
Pictures hanging on the walls throughout<br />
the front office show the company’s<br />
signature red agricultural equipment,<br />
along with slogans that appear in Italian,<br />
German, Spanish, English, and other<br />
languages.<br />
“Es wird zeit, auch in den boden zu investiern,”<br />
or “Long lasting performance,<br />
maintenance free,” reads a display with<br />
photographs of a Maschio tiller at work.<br />
In Italian: “Riduce i passaggi, ottimizza<br />
la rese.”<br />
The nondescript office/warehouse<br />
building tucked away in the southeast<br />
corner of DeWitt is the North American<br />
headquarters of Maschio Gaspardo, a firm<br />
114 EASTERN IOWA FARMER | FALL <strong>2018</strong> eifarmer.com
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