Hagen Grading Company

About Hagen Grading Company

Hagen Grading spends most of the year moving dirt for building pads and drainage on Sioux Falls' industrial north side, so when winter comes the same loaders and graders just switch to moving snow instead — around the grain elevators and the sprawling lots near the old stockyards district, where a plow truck alone can't keep up with the volume a big storm dumps on acres of open pavement. This is heavy work by scale rather than by finesse: a loader stacking snow into ridges along a fence line, a grader blading a long stretch of frontage road in a few passes. The north side carries the smell and sound of the city's old meatpacking history even now, and Hagen's crews are a familiar sight there in any season, machines idling between shifts at the plants that never really close. Winter just adds another texture to ground the company already knows by its dirt.