Midwest Machinery Alexandria Receives Friends of 4-H Award
Posted by Kris M on November 14, 2011
2 Comments On Saturday, November 12th, 2011, our Alexandria location received the Friends of 4-H Award. This award is presented to a business or individuals for contributions to the Douglas County 4-H program. Midwest Machinery sponsors plagues for two different project areas. We contribute to the 4-H food stand, supply the barns with a skid steer, tractor and manure spreader for cleaning the barns. Midwest Machinery is also a supporter of the 4-H auction every year. I personally could not be more honored to receive this award. 4-H is a great organization to be associated with!
We are excited here at Midwest Machinery Co and wegotgreen.com to be celebrating 9th Anniversary doing business as a web store. We could not have done it with out our loyal customers! In honor of our Anniversary we are offering FREE SHIPPING on any order over 50.00 on Monday, October 24th, 2011. For that day only, any qualifying order shipped by UPS ground will receive free freight. Sorry, this will not include any electric ride on toys, pedal bikes or trikes or furniture. Again thank you for shopping wegotgreen.com. You will need to use the coupon code FREIGHT case sensitive.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Midwest Machinery employees have been hit hard with Cancer in the last 6 months. From an employee’s wife with breast cancer, an employee’s Dad with brain cancer and a 5 year old son of a salesman, with brain cancer also. Midwest Machinery will donate one dollar for every like to our facebook page for the month of October to the American Cancer Society. So spread the word, have your friends and family like our wegotgreen facebook page. We want to raise money and AWARENESS to help prevent Cancer. So far this month we have received over 110 likes.
Well the crew in our Glenwood Store got moved. They have been settled in for about a couple weeks now. This is the old showroom empty.
They won’t know what to do with all the space they will have with the new store.
All the management got involved in moving.
Here Ben and Marv are helping to put the bin away.
Showroom, parts and offices gone.
They did sell this part of the shop so it has to be taken down in “nice” pieces.
They have footings are about done. Have to get that underground digging done before it freezes. Keep watching for more updates.
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Glenwood MN Midwest Machinery is getting a new store.
Posted by Kris M on September 14, 2011
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Cement pouring for the new wash bay.
Midwest Machinery is building a new John Deere store in Glenwood, MN. The wash bay is up, that is where the offices and parts will be until the new store is done in March. Packing has begun and moving starts on Friday, September 16th. The building is coming down the following Monday. It is a very old building, I remember going there with my Dad, 30 years ago (not to give my age away). We are very excited about the new project. The display floor would hold one lawn mower and not much John Deere merchandise. So for me, I get to stock another location with a lot more JOHN DEERE “stuff”. I drove by the shop last weekend, for nostalgic reasons!
The trenches were pretty deep for the water, but here in MN it gets cold, even deep in the ground.
Walls are going up and water lines are being dug in.
I personally would not want to be our trucker from that store, trying to go between trenches with a wide load. I don’t like driving over roads where the sides are gone in a car, let alone in a semi with trailer.
This is the space that 2 Administration, 3 Parts, 3 Salesman will have to share for the next 6 months. I keep telling them, “but think of the store you get when it is over”. We will keep you updated with more pictures as this progresses. And of course, in Midwest Machinery Co style, we will be have a GRAND OPENING event.
Tight squeeze.
more tight squeezes!
It is fair time in Douglas County. I think we have to be one of the latest fairs in Minnesota. Our State fair starts this week. Doesn’t give much rest for the kids or animals going to the State fair. Midwest Machinery has a booth at the fair where we sell clothing, merchandise and ALOT of 1/64 toys. 
Kids, of all ages, love the tractor to take a picture with.
We are offering a 10 percent discount at the fair and want to pass that on to our website friends. On Sunday, August 21st, if you use the coupon code FAIR, (case sensitive) you will receive 10 percent off your total order.
We would love to see any fair pictures you have to share.
Midwest Machinery-Alexandria Co-Sponsers Beetle Games
Posted by Kris M on August 20, 2011
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Midwest Machinery in Alexandria MN co-sponsored along with the Douglas County Extension and 4-H program and the Douglas Corn Growers association, The Agricultural night at the Alexandria Beetles Baseball game. We handed out John Deere Koozies, Corn Growers served hundreds of free corn on the cob. 4-H Groups and the Douglas Extension office gave out 4-H clover fans, which came in handy. They also had many games and prizes. The Beetles won too!!
The Northwoods League is a summer baseball league comprised of teams of the top college players from across the nation and North America.
3 Locations of Midwest Machinery are hosting an ERTL and John Deere Day of Play. We are among 5 dealerships in the United States to participate in a pilot program sponsored by John Deere and ERTL, for children Ages 4-7. There will be tractor or combine rides, depending on the store. We will have a farm safety booth, play games, play with ERTL farm toys, watch videos. There will also be snacks and door prizes! If you live or have friends or family that live near one of the stores hosting please share this information with them! We just ask that you call the store to register so we can plan appropriately.
Sauk Rapids is our first location, theirs will be on Thursday, August 11th from 2:00-4:30, Tractor rides,
please call Dayna to register, 320-252-2010.
Alexandria is having theirs on Saturday, August 13th from 9:00-11:30, Combine rides,
please call Kris to register, 320-763-4220.
Glencoe will be having theirs on Thursday, August 25th from 9:00-11:30, Tractor rides,
please call Alyson to register, 320-864-5571.
July is the month for Customer Appreciation Days at Midwest Machinery Company. We have 7 locations do a dinner for their customers. Unfortunatley 3 of the stores had really HOT days, so their attendence was down a little. Sometimes it is just to hot to even eat. Howard Lake location (where our wegotgreen website is based at) had theirs on a hot day but still served over 625 people. That is still a great turn out. If you happen to be a website customer that lives near one of our stores, make sure you stop in next year. We would love to meet you.
- 7730 signed by Jason Aldean
The country music festival known as “Winstock” was held June 10th and 11th in Winsted, Minnesota. It features music from the up and coming to the well-known artists in the country music business today. Some of this years entertainment included James Otto, Darius Rucker, The Oak Ridge Boys, Montgomery Gentry and Jason Aldean. As any John Deere fan would know, Jason Aldean’s biggest hit so far has been “Big Green Tractor”, so it was only fitting that John Deere be a part of the festival this year. Midwest Machinery Co together with wegotgreen.com, held a campsite decorating contest with the theme being “Big Green Tractor”. It was awesome to see a lot of campsites with John Deere decorations! And it didn’t end there, the John Deere tee shirts, hats and sweatshirts (yes, it was very cold in June in Minnesota! Who would have thought?!) were everywhere! We even got Jason Aldean to sign a toy tractor for us! The weekend was great! Nothing goes together better than country music and John Deere! Check out the winners of the decorating contest and a picture of our “signed” John Deere tractor!
Grand Prize
1st Place
2nd Place
Honorable Mention
