About Us
Since 1975, ServiTech, Inc. has relied on the most current technologies, research and science to make productive and profitable recommendations for thousands of growers on millions of acres. Three ServiTech laboratory facilities complement industry agronomic services to measure fertility, tailor field inputs and increase yields.
As the global population increases, the need for more efficient food production systems also grows. ServiTech actively pursues new technologies to ensure that our recommendations and services are making farming operations more productive, more efficient and more sustainable.
Mission — Provide expert analysis and decision support to increase productivity and profitability.
Vision — Sustainably creating a more productive world.
Values—
Safety – Be aware and prepare to avert risk
Integrity – Do the right thing, always
Collaboration – Partnering to find the right solutions
Innovation – Always searching for a better way
History
1975
ServiTech, Inc. founded on June 10, 1975 after three farmer-owned cooperatives in southwest Kansas decided that area producers needed access to cutting-edge technical information. The company began with 100,000 acres under contract.
1977
As demand for ServiTech’s services began to grow, the demand for faster soil results increased as well. After ServiTech leadership noticing the increasing need for laboratory results with a quicker turnaround than the university labs were able to provide, ServiTech expanded and created ServiTech Laboratories in 1977.
1981
ServiTech's continued success in southwest Kansas saw the company pushing northward into the northeast corner of Colorado. In the 1981 growing season, ServiTech began offering crop consulting services to eastern Colorado.
1982
The demand for ServiTech's expertise continues to grow in western Kansas and eastern Colorado. ServiTech leadership saw massive potential in Nebraska, so in 1982 a dedicated group of agronomists moved into Nebraska and began promoting ServiTech. Nebraska is now one of our largest crop service territories.
1988
With active agronomists in three different states, ServiTech’s Dodge City Laboratory location needed more capacity to keep up with the sample volume. As the laboratories began testing multiple types of agricultural samples, the labs expanded, opening our second location in Hastings, Nebraska.
1990
Further growth required expansion of the Dodge City laboratory in 1990.
1996
ServiTech continued to grow steadily. In 1996, the Dodge City Laboratory was expanded once again. This time with a major addition and complete renovation to improve capacity and efficiency of the lab.
2000
Over the next two decades, ServiTech grew to be the largest agronomic firm and agricultural laboratory in the United States. ServiTech noticed a demand for highly trained independent agronomists in Iowa. In 2000, ServiTech launched its Iowa division, opening up new business opportunities in the Corn Belt.
2005
As ServiTech’s crop consulting division grew, so too did laboratory business. In order to sample volume and offer testing to the numerous cattle feeding operations in the Texas Panhandle, ServiTech Laboratories opened its third lab in Amarillo, Texas.
2009
Precision Agriculture becomes the term of the decade, as more and more producers start to aggressively track exactly what’s happening out in their field. Over the previous decade, technology in agriculture had been growing at breakneck speed. In order to help growers reconcile all the incoming data, keep up the new technology, and prepare them increased regulation, ServiTech launches ServiTech Expanded Premium Services, LLC – or, STEPS. STEPS focuses on the exploration, development, and field testing of cutting-edge technology in the agricultural sector.
2013
ServiTech changes its official purpose to “Making the Planet More Productive.” ServiTech actively pursues new technologies to ensure that our recommendations and services are making farming operations more productive, more efficient and more sustainable.
2015
ServiTech celebrates its 40th anniversary of Making the Planet More Productive with laboratories that process over 250,000 soil samples a year and almost 1 million acres under contract.
2019
In 2019 we launched ServiTech Bridge™ Field Intelligence—a subscription service using in-field sensors and analytics that gives you vital information about your field conditions. Available features include soil moisture management, rainfall measurement, pivot status, irrigation well status, grain bin fan status, weather station, tank monitoring, lagoon monitoring, flow meters, and pressure sensors. All in-field sensor subscriptions come with growth modeling and calibrated field imagery.