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No component on a combine functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all interact with effects that can reach all the way to planting.
Here’s the all-new Lexion 8000-7000 series combine.
U.S. farmers’ incomes are set to plunge to a 12-year low, but that’s not enough to stop some from investing in new tractors and combines.
This month, U.S. Farm Report is on the road with Machinery Pete to P&K Equipment in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
U.S. Farm Report is on the road with Machinery Pete in western Wisconsin at Frontier Ag and Turf.
As you manage through the capital-intensive decisions for machinery, there are three major areas of consideration which include an accounting perspective, replacement scheduling and market value conditions.
Four new models of self-propelled forage harvesters provide 10% improvements in horsepower and kernel processing compared to the previous John Deere series.
With the four-fold goal of improving efficiency, grain quality, uptime and safety, AGCO has announced three optional features on its Fendt Ideal Combine.
There is a wide continuum of options when prepping a combine for winter storage. Here’s a pre-storage list of those various options, from “park it and forget it” to “ready for next year’s harvest.”
An American farming titan, Jessie Small, the king of combines, has passed on, and with him goes a sizable chunk of U.S. historical lore.
Item highlights include five cotton pickers, five tractors, and lots of other items of high interest!
Insurance companies that offer coverage for “rock damage” to combines often require claims be submitted within six weeks of the end of harvest.
This is the famous and first original Busch Light combine
Understand how combine components interact to do a better job.
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Put these practices to work to improve your corn harvest outcome.
To celebrate the milestone each new combine leaving the factory will have a 75th anniversary decal applied.
Whether you call it slugged, plugged or wadded-up, a combine jammed with weeds or damp crop is enough to make a preacher cuss. Here are tips to minimize your frustration and downtime.
Too much corn is not making it to the bin in central Illinois as harvest season nears the finish line. If you’re still combining, consider Ken Ferrie’s recommendations to bolster results.
Manufacturing meltdowns are hitting the U.S., as semiconductor shortages expand into other components. Supply chain woes now pose a threat to the food supply and farmers’ ability to get crops out of fields.
“Precision and autonomy are an opportunity for us, and Raven really helps put us in a very, very competitive position,” Wine says.
My only conclusion is that machines can secretly talk to each other via some sort of long-distance mechanical telepathy.
USDA counts 12.5 billion bushels of capacity on U.S. farms, which is 900 million more than just four years ago.
This pair of Brent 644 gravity wagons sold at a southeast Iowa farm auction Wednesday.
To help with tricky harvest conditions, Mathews Company has introduced a new mixed-flow grain dryer called the Delta Series with SmartFlow technology.
The new Haulmaster series will span four models—1100, 1300, 1600, and 2000 bu. capacities.
The 2596 Brent Avalanche grain cart boasts a 2,500 bu. capacity and up to 1,000 bu. per minute unloading speed.