Always a pleasure to talk to Jon Mollhagen and Gene Dubas of Moly Manufacturing. I caught up with them both at Beef & Greet in Bentonville, Arkansas. Jon was heading out for a round of golf, and Gene was recovering from knee surgery—kinda both ends of the spectrum. But any time you get with these two, you're going to talk cattle handling equipment! 

Moly’s All-Purpose Corral™ is a fresh, innovative take on the traditional corral. With added brace stabilizers, galvanized steel wheels hinged directly to the fence surface, adjustable headgates for different-sized animals, and a lightweight design, you can operate this corral hassle-free. The All-Purpose Corral™ is perfect for any farming operation – portable or permanent. Featuring easy assembly and disassembly processes, this product is designed to meet any challenge head-on. Flat tires, wheel slippage, weak connectors, and tough towing payloads are a thing of the past. With the All-Purpose Corral, Moly Manufacturing has established the industry standard in portable corrals, ensuring it meets all your needs.

Moly’s founder, Jon Mollhagen, is a rancher through and through. He grew up on his family’s fifth-generation row crop and cow-calf operation in the Smoky Hills outside Lorraine, Kansas. Long days of working beside his father and fixing equipment instilled a set of deep roots, firmly planted in the prairie soil.

At 19 years old, Jon had the opportunity to start a custom farming business, operating on worn-out farm equipment and doing whatever it took to get by, which eventually expanded to 10,000 acres in the area.

Early on, Jon found it was much more viable and cost-effective to build his farming equipment. His innovative spirit and determination drove him to create the first product sold by Moly Manufacturing, LLC – the Trans-Corral. This revolutionary corral was designed to be collapsible and portable, and could be pulled by a single pickup truck.​

After the initial success of the Trans-Corral, Jon found himself swamped with requests from his customers to develop a hydraulic squeeze chute to pair with the corral. Taking these points into consideration, he set out to build the SILENCER® chute, the product that put Moly Manufacturing on the map. The quiet, equalized pressure system was one of a kind, focusing on animal and operator safety. It was a brand-new take on the squeeze chute, and it soon gained immense popularity among cattle producers nationwide, as well as internationally. The SILENCER® became the flagship product of Moly Manufacturing, known by all as the industry standard in livestock handling equipment.​

Since the release of the SILENCER®, Moly has continued to expand its following and product line. Products such as the TurretGate and the All-Purpose Corral have further improved cattle operations worldwide. These releases have served to solidify Moly’s reputation, as well as propel the world of cattle production into a new era of innovation.

When Jon sold his first Trans-Corral in 1987, he had no idea that his little corporation would grow to what it has become. It is his hope, as well as that of the entire company, that with the same level of hard work and dedication, we can build a better future for cattle production.