Antique Tractor Blog

Jenny received her 25 year anniversary cake and gift on May 20th, 2021. Below is a little story from Jenny about her time with STP.

Hey there. 25 years – WOW! I never planned to be here this long. It’s been one heck of a lifelong position in a company with strong foundations built up by my folks. Reminisce with me for a moment…
I grew up in this business, literally. Dad’s daily warnings of watch out, be careful, those disc blades are sharp (you’ll cut yourself!), that’s oily watch out it’ll get on your clothes, and come over here and help me with this (whatever this could be) still ring through my head daily. When I was a youngin’, I remember standing by Dad’s side while he packed manifolds and I’d fill in the addresses in the UPS ledger book (‘not that way, do it this way’ was a common dad saying pertaining to just about everything); sweeping the barn floor was a common task, as well as answering the phones when I returned home from school as early as Jr high. Ha, I ran across a scrap piece of paper after the company moved to Lennon that was stuck in my belongings with hand written hours in my preteen handwriting for check in and check out times.  Even though I worked elsewhere from age 14 to 19, I already had my folks’ work ethic  ground into my bones. By age 19, I needed full time work that my then landscaping job couldn’t offer during a rainy April, so I filled in for a customer service rep at STP who stopped showing up for work. They needed the position filled, I knew the parts and wanted the work. Ta-Da!

After training with my mom in purchasing and pricing and working with both of my folks in new parts development, I was quite engrained into the business that had started as a position to earn full time hours for the time being. My older brother joined the crew officially 5 years after I did, and we started buying out the inventory from Mom and Dad with the intentions of allowing them to retire. Who at age 25 knows what they’re doing? Yowza! Little did I know how much greater of a company we could build Steiner tractor Parts into…

With the assistance of one hell of a crew of Steiner team members and an amazing worldwide group of loyal customers, I’m proud to say that I am part of one of the coolest companies in the world. Really. There is nowhere you can work that has the benefits, pensions, understanding hard working management team and interesting client base as Steiner Tractor Parts. STP has grown from a busting-at-the-seams mom and pop small company with one employee (co-op student) to a corporation that employs 65, still growing by leaps and bounds. I feel proud to say that I’ve watched my parents’ efforts grow from the 4 stapled catalog pages I’d help put together at our dining room table to the 752 page goliath it is now.

Thank you to all of our customers reading this who have allowed us at Steiner Tractor Parts to continue growing, fueling the next generation of farmers and restorers to keep heritage alive.
Keep on plowin’

Jenny Steiner Bradshaw Multi hat wearer and Co-owner