Galileo Wheel and DFS Finance Bring Five-Year Financing to TrakWheel Airless Tire Technology

Galileo Wheel has partnered with DFS Finance, a division of First National Bank of Omaha, to offer farmers five-year full buy-out financing on TrakWheel Architected Wheel Solutions. The program is available through all DFS Finance approved dealers — which includes the complete authorized Valley and Lindsay dealer networks across North America.

There's something worth noting about how this came together. Tires are wearable items. As a rule, they don't qualify for equipment financing — they're treated as consumables, replaced on a cost-as-you-go basis.

DFS Finance's decision to approve TrakWheel changes that, recognizing it as a long-term component of an irrigation system rather than a part that gets used up. That classification matters, and it took significant groundwork to get there.

The context makes the timing make sense. Demand for farm operating loans grew nearly 40% in Q4 2025 compared to the previous year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Farmers are looking for ways to finance smart equipment upgrades — and the upfront cost of premium tire technology has historically been one of the real friction points in that decision.

TrakWheel has been in US fields since 2022. The numbers it's built up since then — more than 10,000 installed assemblies, a 0.05% warranty claim rate, documented first-season ROI reaching 551%, zero recorded pivot downtime from tire failure — reflect a product that performs consistently over time. The 10-year warranty, the first of its kind for an irrigation tire, is part of the same picture.

"Farmers today are under real pressure, and we take that seriously," said Chris Rice, Executive Vice President of Sales at Galileo Wheel. "We spent a long time working to make this financing happen to give any farmer access to the best technology available. Now they can eliminate pivot downtime from day one, spread the investment over five years and get a first-in-the-industry 10-year warranty. The ROI is immediate — the cash outlay no longer has to be."

With terms of up to five years — and the option to finance replacement tires — farmers can upgrade without the cash flow pressure that typically comes with a premium technology purchase.

"Galileo's Architected Wheel Solutions represent exactly the kind of long-term infrastructure investment that financing is designed for," said Chris Halbur, Senior Vice President of DFS Finance. "This program gives dealers a powerful tool to close sales on high-value upgrades while giving farmers the flexibility to manage capital expenditure across multiple seasons."

All financing is subject to DFS underwriting and credit approval. Collateral may be required.

Farmers can estimate their monthly payment using the TrakWheel Financing Calculator at www.galileowheel.com/financing.