A couple of miles northeast of Milbank, South Dakota lies Jim DeVaal's small dairy farm. He has 40 cows year round and 550 acres of cash grain on the side. Jim and his wife Carla, who works for United Hardware; a warehouse for Trustworthy and Hardware Hank stores; and their two children moved to the farm in 1988. A year later, they built their first Morton machine storage building.

"We shopped around," begins Jim. "I checked out the local lumber yard. I had them give me a bid on what lumber would be on a 50' x 100' [structure]. Morton decided a 54' x 90' was the closest they could get to the way they wanted to build it. It didn't cost me very much more to go with Morton, and it was done in four days."