Model year 2022 will mark the 75-year anniversary for John Deere selling self-propelled combines. To celebrate the milestone each new combine leaving the factory will have a 75th anniversary decal applied.
In addition, the company highlights half of a dozen factory-installed options new for its S Series combines:
- Automation Activation 4.0 with Generation 4 Machine Sync and AutoPath.
- Introduced in 2021, AutoPath technology uses the previous precision ag guidance lines for hands-free combine navigation in the field.
- Additional LED lighting packages
- The same lighting offered on the larger X Series Combines.
- Additional lights focusing on the grain tank, row finder, engine and service access areas and the unloading auger
- Factory-installed, flat-tooth comb chaffer (formerly high-performance chaffer)
- Now available for S and X Series
- Allows for easier combine settings in canola and lower tailings in weedy harvesting conditions
- Three new residue management offerings:
- Extra-fine cut chopper for S780 and S790 Combines
- Especially designed to chop tough straw into finer pieces
- Advanced PowerCast tailboard with deluxe residue management for soybeans.
- Premium residue management that includes the tough crop kit.
- Remote grease line for the combine’s final drives
- This is to make regular maintenance easier
- The Kondex Max thresh/small wire/large wire configurations
- This is designed for pulse crops and high-speed harvesting
On the front-end of its harvesting machines, John Deere also introduced four updates to combine harvesting attachments:
- A new flexible cutterbar on Hinged Drapers (HDF) available in 35’ to 50’ widths
- A new eight-row Folding Corn Head (C8F).
- Wing leveling on Hinged Drapers so operators can set “home” position for the header to lift and have a pre-set position on headlands
- Integrated transport on Hinged Drapers so gauge wheels go to “transport mode” and keeps the draper close to the combine when transporting
