Cummins dealer JET Electric Provides Backup Power To Small Agriculture Business

Located in the sprawling farmland of northern Indiana, aviation business Agriflite provides aerial agriculture applications to farmers through a small fleet of planes. Especially busy during the growing season to provide crop dusting, Agriflite needs uninterrupted power to communicate with their planes and to keep business off the ground. In the year before the backup generator was installed, the power went out twice. After approaching JET Electric about backup power solutions, Agriflite quickly realized that the best way to stay in the skies was by purchasing a Cummins Inc. backup generator.

“Generators have become about 60% of our business model in two years,” says Jerron Troyer, the Owner at JET Electric, “We were attracted to the Cummins brand because Cummins has a long history of quality, and when you mention the Cummins name people say ‘oh, I want one of those!’’”

“After speaking with Jerron, I was confident that Cummins would be the best option for us. Farmers are relying on us to get the job done, and without power we can’t do our job,”says Travis Herschberger, Manager at Agriflite.

Equipping Agriflite with a diesel generator designed to start during extreme cold and heat, JET Electric wanted to ensure that they had uninterrupted power during outages in all types of weather.

As a small business, it is imperative to keep the lights on and the doors open, even during a power outage. It impacts your customers, your reputation, and most importantly, your bottom line.

“To know that you’re not going to lose production time gives you peace of mind. If you’re in the situation that a day’s worth of loss is going to add up to a great deal of money, then it makes it a no-brainer for you to have a backup generator. We’ve been very comfortable with the Cummins brand, they’re support is good, and they’re reliable so we don’t have any issues to start with.” Herschberger explains.

JET Electric relies on Cummins not only for superior product, but also unwavering support.

“The cool thing with Cummins is that you have a large company standing behind you that is ready to help you with any situation. That confidence helps us become confident with our customer base in providing them service and installation with the same standard that Cummins provides us,” Troyer says, “We want to continue to provide our customers with excellent service and installations so we can continue to sell more generators.”