Harvesting Equipment
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.
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.”
With the four-fold goal of improving efficiency, grain quality, uptime and safety, AGCO has announced three optional features on its Fendt Ideal Combine.
To celebrate the milestone each new combine leaving the factory will have a 75th anniversary decal applied.
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.
Insurance companies that offer coverage for “rock damage” to combines often require claims be submitted within six weeks of the end of harvest.
I get to ride in a combine for about five hours. That is my definition of happiness.
Item highlights include five cotton pickers, five tractors, and lots of other items of high interest!
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.
My only conclusion is that machines can secretly talk to each other via some sort of long-distance mechanical telepathy.
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.
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.
If a combine refuses to ingest, or expel what it’s fed, here are a few tricks to get things unplugged.
One of the best ways to carry corn and soybeans to the finish line is a portable auger.
Stop leaving bushels behind. Dan Anderson explains how to optimize combine settings, adjust groundspeed, and manage header feeding to minimize grain loss during harvest.
Thicker cornstalks and higher populations mandate careful adjustments of corn heads to minimize losses.
