An Inside Look at Doyle Equipment's New Missouri Facility

By CropLife IRON|October 30, 2019

Since Doyle Equipment Manufacturing Co. was first founded by Merle “Jack” Doyle back in 1951, the company has been on a near constant growth curve. From its early days of making fertilizer spreaders, Doyle has branched out into many different equipment areas of agriculture, including spreaders, tenders, blenders, and receiving and conveying equipment. In fact, this year, the company is introducing two of its largest units in these categories ever — a 32-Ton Overhead Auger Trailer Tender and a 24-Ton Rotary Blender.

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Doyle’s company operations are run these days by the great grandchildren / grandchildren of the founder. Pictured are Catie and Monty Doyle, in front of historic pictures from the company’s early days.
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Doyle's new 208,000-square-foot facility in Palmyra, MO, was completed in early 2017.
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CropLife IRON’s Sal Settecase, left, gets some instruction from Doyle’s Monty Doyle on the workings of the company’s manufacturing floor.
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Two Doyle employees bend a piece of stainless steel in one of the facility’s bending presses.
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This mission statement is featured prominently in the Doyle lobby, and has been a guiding force throughout the company’s history, says Monty Doyle.
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A sign at Doyle's Palmyra, MO, facility welcomes CropLife Magazine.
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Once Doyle components have been assembled and welded, many of them end up in the company’s inventory yard, awaiting final assembly and finishing before they are shipped to customers.
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Doyle’s AutoBatch system is designed as an alternative for ag retail facilities that don’t want a large tower blending system.
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For comparison, Doyle placed two of its rotary blenders on a flat bed trailer. On the left is the company’s smallest model, a 5-Ton unit. On the right is the company’s newest offering, a 24-Ton Blender.
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A Doyle worker cuts through some steel mesh on the manufacturing floor.
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A pair of Doyle employees use a crane to position a product box into place on one of the company’s tenders.
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A Doyle welder puts some finishing touches on the outside of one of the company’s vertical blenders.
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To provide some scale to the size of Doyle rotary blenders, a worker emerges from the mouth of one such unit after finishing some internal welding.
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A close-up of the type of welders used by Doyle, which features a special suction feature to reduce smoke emissions when in operation.

But over the years of expanding across the U.S. and into 70 different countries around the globe, Doyle found itself constrained by its original facility in Quincy, IL. “Our facility there covered roughly 120,000 feet, which was a lot back in the day, but not so much anymore,” says Owner Monty Doyle. “So about eight years ago, we decided it was time to explore building a new, more expansive plant to work from.”

So, across the Mississippi River in Palmyra, MO, Doyle purchased a plot of land along Highways 24/61. The new 208,000-square-foot facility was completed in early 2017 and the company formally moved in that May. Since then, says Catie Doyle, Director of Human Resources, the company has expanded multiple times, adding a 24,000-square-foot section for “work in progress” parts, a 25,000-square-foot separate building for a rebuild center, and a 6,000-square-foot section for transportation and loading.