Harvest report 2020

The 2020 harvest was dry and high-yielding in our region. A good and stress-free harvest. By using our Harvestbooster components, we were able to achieve yields that were previously unattainable for us.

Driven by the idea of counteracting the lack of weeding and increasing the efficiency of our harvest, we started to add individual parts to our New Holland CR 8080 in the winter of 2020. How did we go about it? Find out more here> In order to compensate for the resistance caused by the mounted ear lifting plate and to ensure a secure intake, we welded additional gripper bars onto the intake bars of the conveyor chain. This combination proved its worth this year. We ran the rotor at a lower speed and opened the threshing gap slightly wider. The crop prepared in the intake area was harvested with better quality and fewer losses despite the higher throughput.
Feeding bars were developed to screw onto the intake auger to improve transfer to the conveyor channel. All of this combined resulted in a huge performance boost in the 2020 harvest, while at the same time reducing engine utilization and saving fuel. What’s more, everything went very smoothly because there were no more load peaks and we were able to make rapid progress.
Overgrown organic pea crop: Despite the rigid mounting of the feed bar on the auger conveyor, there were no wrappers on the feed auger during the entire 2020 season, even with the heaviest contamination.
Given the circumstances, grain breakage can be considered very low. This was the case for all crops throughout the season.
The performance of the machine can be significantly increased by the ear lifting plate and the resulting even intake (9.15 m working width was not sufficient to utilize the machine to capacity in 2020). Previously, there were always load peaks with comparable crops (10.5 tons – 66 tons throughput per hour). What is always particularly noticeable in this situation is the low engine utilization with a comparatively high throughput (59% engine utilization). The machine is virtually running in slow gear. Since the changes (optimizations), we are pleased with the absolutely smooth running.

The question about the straw: We had no problems with it in the 2020 harvest. Despite the very mature and friable crops at the end of the season, there was no problem harvesting this straw with the standard round baler. A homogeneous swath with well-structured straw leads to maximum performance when baling. A beautiful end to the harvest.