- I'm Tyler Knight.
I'm a third generation farmer
in Lowry City, Missouri.
We run a beef cattle farm with close to
75 to 100 cow-calf pairs,
custom hay work, and
also our own hay work.
- I got started from my great-grandfather,
he had the family farm.
My grandfather took over, and
after I came back from Iraq,
I decided to take over
the family farm also,
and I wouldn't have it any other way.
When I took over I wanted
to be more competitive
in the custom harvesting.
We had an older baler that was just twine,
and decided to get a net wrap baler,
and we commenced to using net wrap
and I'd say probably, five
years I haven't used twine.
Our bale count is close to
2,500 and above every year,
and some years we've
hit it close to 5,000,
depending on type of the year it is,
and how many customers want
first cuttings and second cuttings.
The baler I have, they
have their own net wrap
that was recommended usage with that baler
so I wouldn't have any net wrap problems
and I stuck with that, and
continued to stick with that
even though that I was
continuously having loss of bales.
I used to have close to 10 to 20% loss
on my hay bales from the rippage.
I used a small demo roll of Vermeer
and baled 50 bales that
day, and didn't miss one.
So after that
I ended up doing 347 bales in one day
and didn't miss one bale.
and after that I was a pretty firm believer and since then I've ordered 10 rolls of netwrap
and I haven't had one miss yet,
and I'm very happy with that.
Knowing that you produce
a large, tight bale
with good looking net wrap,
and you're able to keep
a bale longer than a year
with less spoilage.
And my customers have
found that they're able
to keep hay a lot better.
It's more efficient for
their operation, too.
The customer drives out with his friend
from the coffee shop and
goes sticks their hand
by the net wrap on the bale,
and notices that the net wrap has kept it
nice and tight and it's
going to hold over.
They talk to each other,
coffee shop talk is
what gets you business.
I'm Tyler Knight with TK Farms,
and that's the reason why I switched to
Vermeer Net Wrap.
