Four generation family business and Basin Electric member on relationships

The photo below was taken at Kist Livestock in Mandan, North Dakota, in 1983. Meghan Will is the little girl you see in the lower half of the photo. Her father is in the upper righthand corner.

They are installing the scale in the livestock ring.

Four decades later, Meghan and her husband Travis own her father's business, servicing and certifying that very scale at Kist Livestock today.

Long-term relationships mean a lot to the Will's business, Capital Scale Company.

When the area began growing quickly due to an oil boom in the Bakken shale formation of western North Dakota and eastern Montana, oil companies were courting Capital Scale Company with offers to pay four times what their current customers were paying.

“The boom made the service side of our business a lot busier, but we have prided ourselves on customer service and taking care of the customers who have been with us for 25 years,” Meghan says. “We appreciate the customers who have kept us in business year after year. The oil boom has been a great asset, but agriculture is still a bigger industry for us.”

Capital Scale Company is a member of Capital Electric Cooperative, a Basin Electric Class C member headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Watch the video to learn more, and read their member feature in our 2022 Annual Report.