This is a YouTube video titled "How John Deere Helped the Glass Family Farm Stay in Business" featuring an interview with Arthur and Linda Glass, a retired couple who manage a 120-acre hay farm by themselves. They discuss their farming operations, equipment usage, and challenges related to aging and farm maintenance, highlighting the role of John Deere machinery in their work. The content is from June 2019 and provides a personal perspective on small-scale farming and equipment reliability.
We're Arthur and Linda Glass. We farm about 120 acres of hay every year. We are retired. We're both 71 years old, but we don't have any help with the farm. We do it all ourselves. We actually got married in 1996. Arthur hurt his back in 2009, so he's not able to do a whole lot with the tractors. So I actually do all of the cutting and the raking and the hauling in and stacking in the barn. I save him for the baling. And after this last time around, I might be doing it all. He's going down on me, but anyway. And as far as cutting the grass, I cut all of the grass all around. I used the z track, cut around the pond and also about twice a year, cut around all the fence rows with the Z track and also. So they're pretty durable. Yeah, they have to be. Cause I don't abuse equipment. But I do use it, and I expect it to work for me. And that's what John deere delivers. We had cows for years, and then we sold them about four years ago. And now all we do is just bale and sell hay.
Well, in their operation, it's all about got a rain coming to get it up. So they always want to make sure what they running is ready to go. They bid on maintenance and keeping they run. Stuff's a little older, some of it, but still crank right now and do the job. And the new balers, they just needed something. That one they had was fine, but it's just slower, you know, narrow pickup. They wanted to go with something with a wide pickup. Don't have to do all this to start the bale and get it done, you know, beat the rain. That's what it's all about in the hay business.
Yep.
I like that power pickup. I mean, hydraulic pickup. You don't have to get off track, crank it. That's a big improvement on that. I'm gonna have to climb up on it again. Yeah. And the wide pickup keeps me having to do all of this. So I'm a believer in selling what they need, you know, not, you know, kind of, you know, like that. So this fits their operation perfect, what they do. And if it didn't, she'd be calling me.
Definitely. Believe me, Definitely. He knows if I have a problem, I'll be there.
But sometimes I look up, she's coming in the store with a pound ca, so that means everything is good. She'll bring me a pound cake every now and then. What you can see?
