1880--Founded 1880 as smithery and agriculture machine trading company by Carl Geringhoff focused on harvesting technology and locomobiles.

1890--Focus moved to the development of threshing machines.

1956-- Development of corn shellers for shelling corn cobs.

1958-- Development of pickers for agricultural tractors.

1962-- Introduced the first corn header for combines.

1964-- Introduced the first corn header with a straw chopper mounted under the row unit.

1977-- Introduced the first horizontal chopper for combine corn headers.

1983-- Presentation of the worlds first foldable corn header.

1987-- Production of the revolutionary single roller PC header with completely integrated corn stalk chopper

1988--Introduction of the new MCX corn and grain mill.

1989--Introduction of the first foldable grain cutting bar for combines approved for the strict road transport traffic codes of European countries.

1995--The ROTA-DISC corn header with an integrated straw chopper is introduced

1996--Production of a foldable grain header known as the Grainstar.

1997--A gear driven power transmission replaces all belts and chains .

1998--The new CORNSTAR-MS corn header (for extremely dry conditions) is launched in North America, Africa and parts of Southern Europe.

2001--The first series of 12 row folding corn headers is shipped to North America.

2003--A massive 16 row corn header is launched in North America to accommodate capacities of the new class 8 & 9 combines.

2004 North American headquarters established in Minot , North Dakota

2005 Geringhoff introduces the worlds largest folding corn head at 41'

2006 Geringhoff initiates assembly of the NorthStar model in Minot