Ken and Ann Bratney Family
November 1962
Bratney Companies was founded in 1964 when Ken Bratney and his wife, Ann, packed their five children, two dogs, and all their worldly goods in two cars and departed Portland, Oregon, for Des Moines, Iowa.
Ken had a vision to achieve success by selling seed and grain handling equipment throughout Iowa and Missouri made possible through his dedication to integrity, diligence, and customer satisfaction. Nearly 50 years later, Bratney Companies remains a family-owned business in its third generation and continues to thrive by application of those same founding values.
Today, Bratney Companies brings its customers in the seed, grain, feed, and industrial industries the finest in material handling, cleaning, packaging, separation, conveyance and storage equipment.
Additionally, Bratney Companies provides state-of-the-art process engineering and design, as well as highly–skilled millwright and concrete expertise for new and existing customer facilities. These services are provided to customers across the globe from Bratney Companies’ Des Moines headquarters; its Boise field office, its engineering office in Kansas City, Missouri; its West Coast subsidiary (Vogel Sales Engineering) in Sacramento, California; and its field crews and territory managers throughout the United States and South America.
