Honey Bee Manufacturing Ltd. is a family owned business that was incorporated in 1979 by brothers Greg and Glenn Honey and their wives. At that time, the company operated from their farm at Bracken, Saskatchewan. The development of a simple rod weeder attachment for tillage equipment was the first product produced by Honey Bee. In 1980, Greg and Glenn developed a 67' self-propelled swather. Two years later, this led to the development of a tractor-mounted swather (TM Series), which the company manufactured for a number of years.
In the fall of 1987, the brothers made the decision to move the company to Frontier, Saskatchewan. There they moved into a much larger facility, which offered opportunity for increased production capacity and product line expansion. With the most recent plant expansion (completed in 2001), the company now has over 100,000 square feet of production and warehousing space.
The company's product line has expanded into a diverse offering of draper platforms (Grain Belt header, Grain Belt PLUS Header, Grain Belt swather, and Rice Belt header) that attach to most combines and many of the windrower tractors in the market today. The draper platform technology continues to prove itself in many countries of the world and in a wide variety of crops and conditions.
With a strong commitment to product research and development, Honey Bee's objective is to manufacture farm equipment that farmers want and that farmers are pleased to own.
