November 11, 2016
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Ag Chains Plus offers solutions for customers
By GEOFF PARKS
For the Capital Press
Eric Fery and Cindy Octo-
bre answer all questions about
their company’s farm equip-
ment belts, chains, bushings,
collars, couplers and the like
in the same way: “Come to us
for solutions!”
The
brother-and-sister
tandem has turned their six-
year-old company, Ag Chains
Plus, from a small local sup-
plier business housed in a tiny
space into an independent,
bursting-at-the-seams busi-
ness on the lookout for further
expansion. All just four years
after moving into the Stayton
industrial area.
Ag Chains Plus provides
belting and lacing products
for the food industry, lumber
mills, aggregate firms and
farm equipment.
It also sells power trans-
mission products to the
agricultural industry, roll-
er chains, sprockets, belts,
sheaves, bearings, electric
motors — “things to make
harvesters move, planters run
and the like,” said Fery, 50.
Geoff Parks/For the Capital Press
Owners Eric Fery and his sister, Cindy Octobre, in the warehouse at Ag Chains Plus in Stayton, Ore.
“We grew up in this busi-
ness,” Octobre said of their
lives prior to starting Ag
Chains Plus. “Eric’s lived
around here his whole life and
we both grew up on a farm
(row crops) and we’ve been
in this industry for years.”
They make their money,
she said, when they are both
on the road doing sales and
deliveries, each with their
own territories, clientele and
business circuits around the
Willamette Valley.
The company makes
special deliveries and of-
fers consulting services for
winter maintenance, busi-
ness expansion and custom
design.
Business has grown con-
sistently since the year it was
started, Octobre said.
“There was a niche, a hole,
a void that needed to be filled
in this industry and we are
very dedicated to the people
that we have served over the
years,” Fery said, explaining
their beginnings at Ag Chains
Plus.
Fery is also vice chairman
of the Willamette Valley Ag
Expo.
He said the Expo is much
like his and his sister’s com-
pany in that it is “all about the
farmer and getting the up-to-
date technology and compo-
nents in front of the farmer
so they have the opportunity
to go, ‘I never knew about
that.’”
“When you come to the
Expo, we’re going to show
you everything that’s out
there, from drones, to GPS
tracking, to the latest com-
bine swather and put it right
out there in front of you,” he
said.
Ag Chains Plus will be
at Booth 220 in the Wil-
lamette Events Center at
the Willamette Valley Ag
Expo.
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