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Forage harvester (Click for video) A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. [1] Silage is grass, corn or hay, which has been chopped into small pieces, and compacted together in a storage silo, silage bunker, or in silage bags. [2]
In August 2022, the Fendt Katana 850 was presented as a new high-performance model of the series. Equipped with a Liebherr D976 engine and 18 litres of displacement, the forage harvester offers a rated power of 623 kW and 847 HP at 17,500 kg weight. The chopping drum of the Katana 850 is still the largest on the market at 720mm. [6]
Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming.The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.
A Fortschritt E 512 in 1978 A late 1980s E 512 – its paint was olive-green, because it was cheaper to produce than blue paint. In the early 1950s, the GDR combine harvester production had shifted from stationary threshing mashines and pulled harvesters to the self-propelled combine harvesters of the E 170 series, a modified version of the S-4 Stalinets combine harvester.
1927 ad for Cockshutt products. A Cockshutt combine harvester. Known for quality designs, the company became the leader in the tillage tools sector by the 1920s. Since Cockshutt did not have a tractor design of its own yet, in 1929 an arrangement was made to distribute Allis-Chalmers model 20-35 and United tractors (United was a group of Fordson dealers who contracted Allis for a new tractor ...
A New Holland TR85 combine harvester. The basic technology of agricultural machines has changed little in the last century. Though modern harvesters and planters may do a better job or be slightly tweaked from their predecessors, the combine of today still cuts, threshes, and separates grain in the same way it has always been done.
At the 2005 Agritechnica exhibition, Claas presented the Lexion 600, with a cutting width of up to 12 m (39.37 feet), a grain tank capacity of 12,000 liters (330 Bushels) and a performance up to 60,000 kilograms per hour (130,000 lb/h). [4] This was again the most powerful combine harvester in the world. In 2010, Claas presented the Lexion 700.
June 2009 silo filling on Ken Mahalko's dairy farm near Ruby, WI, using a John Deere 4020, New Holland forage harvester, and Gehl forage wagon. 2009 has been a dry spring so there's not much plant material on the ground. Fresh-cut grasses have a moisture content of about 90% which in a silo would result in silage juice liquid leaking out the ...