- My name's Jeff Jones
and I'm owner/operator
of Jones Angus Farms
here in Kingdom City, Missouri.
And we bale an awful lot
of hay for our cattle
and also our neighbors.
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My great grandfather, actually,
started this back in 1894.
We have three generations
working on the farm right now.
I also have three daughters that help me,
and my wife and my mom still help also.
On an average, we'll bale
around 10,000 bales a year.
This year's been a bit
of a challenge 'cause
we had sporadic rainfall
and we had to make up
for the bales that we didn't
get baled early in the fall.
So we baled more of our Milo
more of our row crops after
we combined 'em to help
make up for the tonnage
we needed to get through this winter.
Any baler and any equipment
that can handle Milo hay
has got to be superior.
The number one thing I didn't
like about our previous baler
was the longevity.
About the time I made the last payment,
that baler was gonna need
about seven to eight thousand
dollars invested in it
to continue it running.
One reason we updated
and went to the Vermeer,
we were wearing these balers
out at 18,000 to 20,000 bales.
So, the durability on these
balers has been tremendous.
They're overbuilt balers.
The weaknesses that we
had on our other balers
have been addressed.
And that helps give
dependability to these balers.
So when we brought our
Vermeer baler in here,
the first one we still had our
other baler running with it
which was not a Vermeer.
And the Vermeer was
baling two bales to one
of our other baler.
At the end of the day, on a 300 bale day,
that was a massive difference.
The thing that I like about
running this Vermeer baler
the best is it starts the bale so easy.
You don't have to ride your clutch,
you don't have to shift down,
you can just go right in to the windrow,
it'll pick the hay up and take off.
It makes a lot less
stress on the operator.
The features that we like
the best on this baler
are the wear spots, it's
got the camless pickup,
it's got the endless belts,
it's got the heavier teeth.
The other thing is, I no longer
have to worry about netwrap.
I used to always study
that and have to watch it
and make sure it went on the bale.
We have not had to address
that issue whatsoever.
The maintenance on these
balers has been very simple.
When you open up the doors, I mean,
you could do an inspection
on these balers really quick.
I strongly recommend
any Vermeer equipment.
And if you look around
here, all of our hay tools
now are Vermeer.
I'm Jeff Jones, and that's
the reason why I switched to
the Vermeer 504R Premium baler.
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