Roeder Implement has been selling and servicing new and used tractors, combines and farm equipment since 1946.

Harry Roeder and his brothers Floyd, Kenneth, Orville and Clarence were partners in many ventures as Roeder Brothers in Bellevue, IA starting in the late thirties.  They painted and shingled barns in the early years.  They were involved with a Pillsbury farm feed business as well as a portable feed grinding business.  In 1946 they secured the Case farm equipment franchise, later they dropped the Case line and took on the IH truck and agricultural franchises.  They had a contract with the U.S. government to utilize a ferry boat to deliver workers from Bellevue to the Savana Ordinance Depot in Illinois.  After Lock & Dam 12 was built in Bellevue the workers walked across the dam to the Illinois side of the Mississippi and then were transported to the ordinance depot with buses owned by the partnership. They were in the used car business during World War II.  At one time they owned three commercial buildings on the main street in Bellevue.  Cessna airplanes were sold for a period of time.  In the fifties they expanded into a construction business installing water and sanitary sewer systems.  In 1955 they purchased a farm and began trading livestock on farm equipment.

By 1956 Floyd and Harry were the remaining partners.  They expanded the International Harvester agricultural franchise by adding a second store in Dubuque and erected a new building at 2550 Rockdale Road in 1957. Floyd managed the Bellevue store while Harry managed the new Dubuque franchise.  In 1972 the partnership was dissolved to allow the two families to proceed separately.  In that year Harry took on his son James as a partner in the Dubuque business now renamed as Roeder Implement.  In 1976 James purchased his father’s interest in the business.

In 1986 Roeder Implement acquired the Kubota and Honda outdoor power franchises to strengthen its presence in the consumer equipment business.

In 1995 The Sieg Machine Shop located at 515 White Street was purchased and renamed Roeder Machine Co.  That business is operated out of part of a building owned by Dubuque Supply Company.

  In January 1997 the John Deere Consumer and Commercial Products franchise was acquired by purchasing the Air Cooled Engines dealership.  At that time the consumer products were moved from Roeder Implement and merged with the John Deere line at Cedar Cross Road in the building leased from the former owner of Air Cooled Engines.  This new venture was named Roeder Outdoor Power.

In August of 1998 Roeder Outdoor Power moved into its new facility at 2580 Rockdale Road on property contiguous to Roeder Implement.  This 31,200 square foot building has an 18,200 square foot main floor and 13,000 square foot second floor warehouse.

Currently Roeder Outdoor Power is the largest John Deere Riding Lawn Equipment dealer in the United States.