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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250530
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250530

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ARTS WAY MANUFACTURING CO INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000007623
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FARM MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT [3523]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	06 Technology
		EIN:				420920725
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1130

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		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-05131
		FILM NUMBER:		251007246

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P O BOX 288
		CITY:			ARMSTRONG
		STATE:			IA
		ZIP:			50514
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7128643131

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		STREET 1:		P O BOX 288
		CITY:			ARMSTRONG
		STATE:			IA
		ZIP:			50514
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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0pt;">ART&#8217;S-WAY MANUFACTURING CO., INC.</p>

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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0pt;">Michael Woods (712) 201-2452 Ext. 0288</p>

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			<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2024.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>Section 1 </b>&#8211;<b> Conflict Minerals Disclosure</b></p>

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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;"><b>Item 1.01 </b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</b></p>

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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt;">This Form SD of Art&#8217;s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1 to December 31, 2024.</p>

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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt;">A copy of the Company&#8217;s Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD and is publicly available at http://www.artsway-mfg.com/financials-and-filings/. The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Form SD.</p>

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			<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;margin:0pt;"><a href="ex_824301.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Conflict Minerals Report of Art<u>&#8217;</u><u>s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.</u></a></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.</p>

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<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt;">ART&#8217;S-WAY MANUFACTURING CO., INC.</p>

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			<p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: right;">Date: May 30, 2025</p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:center;margin:0pt;"><b>ART</b>&#8217;<b>S-WAY MANUFACTURING CO., INC. </b></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:center;margin:0pt;"><b>Conflict Minerals Report</b></p>

<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:center;margin:0pt;"><b>For the reporting period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">This Conflict Minerals Report (the &#8220;Report&#8221;) of Art&#8217;s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the &#8220;Company,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;our,&#8221; and &#8220;us&#8221;) has been prepared by our management on a consolidated basis pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD (the &#8220;Rule&#8221;) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 (the &#8220;Reporting Period&#8221;).</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a registrant manufactures, or contracts to manufacture, products and the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of these products. The specified minerals, which are referred to herein as the &#8220;Conflict Minerals,&#8221; are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten. For purposes of the Rule, the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221; are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">If a registrant knows or has reason to believe that any of the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of its products may have originated in the Covered Countries, then the registrant must exercise due diligence on the Conflict Minerals&#8217; source and chain of custody and submit a Conflict Minerals Report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;) that includes a description of those due diligence measures.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;"><b>Company Summary</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">We began operations as a farm equipment manufacturer in 1956. Since that time, we have become a worldwide manufacturer of agricultural equipment and specialized modular science buildings. Our principal manufacturing plant is located in Armstrong, Iowa.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">For the Reporting Period, our business was organized into two operating segments:</p>

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			<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">Our agricultural products segment manufactures and distributes farm equipment under our own and private labels.</p>
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			<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">Our modular buildings segment manufactures modular buildings for various uses, commonly animal containment and research laboratories, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Art&#8217;s-Way Scientific, Inc., an Iowa corporation.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;"><b>Description of the Company</b>&#8217;<b>s Products Covered by this Report</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">This Report relates to products (a) that we manufactured or contracted to be manufactured, (b) for which the manufacturing was completed during the Reporting Period, and (c) for which Conflict Minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of such products.</p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">Reviewing a list of its suppliers and products to identify merchandise the Company may have contracted to manufacture that may include conflict minerals that could be reasonably expected to be necessary to the functionality or production of the product;</p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">Conducting a supply chain survey of identified suppliers and products, using the Responsible Minerals Initiative (&#8220;RMI&#8221;) Conflict Minerals Reporting Template, to identify conflict mineral sourcing information; and</p>
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<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-align:justify;margin:0pt;">As a result of the measures and inquiries described above, the Company determined that none of the responses received reflected the use of conflict minerals from the Covered Countries, and no specific responses were noted that raised question regarding the validity of such responses. The Company is also not aware of any concerns associated with non-responding suppliers as relates to this determination.</p>

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