General Info

Horvick Manufacturing Company, Inc, was founded by Ben Horvick in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1955. Ben, a Norwegian immigrant who had already retired from one successful business venture, soon discovered he was not happy in retirement. Ben started Horvicks with a single product: a rotary hammermill designed for small dairy operators. He then expanded his company by manufacturing and selling a centrifugal vacuum cleaner for grain elevators. Ben retired ( again ) in 1966, selling the business to long-time employee, Dennis Erickson. Dennis took the company to a higher level, expanding the product line to include fertilizer spreaders, herbicide sprayers and anhydrous ammonia equipment. In 1980, Dennis sold the company to Lee and Scott Erickson ( his sons ) and Steve Alm. They decided to relocate the company to Fargo, North Dakota in 1981. In 1986, Tim Pederson was brought in as a partner. Together, they have built Horvicks into one of the largest and most respected fertilizer/sprayer equipment manufacturers and distributors in the upper Midwest. Today, Horvicks handles a wide variety of site specific farming accessories, from spraying nozzles to GPS receivers. Horvicks has long filled a necessary niche for progressive farmers in the upper Midwest. With this website, we are now taking the next step in agricultural service and marketing.