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- I'm Brad Pollema from Rock Valley, Iowa.
And we are at my feedlot farm.
What we do here, I guess, is
we buy calves in the fall,
and feed em till, hopefully, April, May.
And then ship em off as fat.
We bed every three days here.
These pens are all
concrete, but I gotta keep
em up off the cement.
If you get wet, rainy weather,
we'll do it every day.
And then we'll run 48 bales through a day.
I bed with a Vermeer bale processor.
I've tried other processors,
but I'm happy with it.
You can run bales through
this one pretty fast.
Mainly cornstalk goes through it.
We put up 4,000 bales a year, I suppose.
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A dry bale I can whip
through in 20 seconds.
You get a wetter, tougher
bale, it's gonna take
a little longer, but it will
chew it apart, I do know that.
This fall we've got some
bales from the neighbor,
and they were wet, and they
ran right through this thing.
Our other bale shredder wouldn't do it,
but this one will eat it.
And this one will throw that stock,
it will throw it 70-80 feet if we want.
And I ain't even runnin'
the tractor wide open.
My pens are 70 feet deep,
and if I run it wide open,
I blow it in the bunk, or blow it up
against the back walls,
so you don't have to
run that tractor wide open.
Makes a big difference.
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It's very user friendly.
Bales flip right in there, ya know,
some of them bale processors you can get
the bale turned sideways.
This one I have never had
one turn sideways yet.
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You can do things faster
and quicker, you save money.
And time is a big thing,
especially in the winter out here,
you know, you got 7-8 hours
of light and then it's dark.
So, my wife is happier.
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I am Brad Pollema, and I
switched to the BPX9010.
