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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]
New Holland is a global full-line agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and now based in Turin, Italy.New Holland's products include tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters.
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 ...
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 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.
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]
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Forage harvesters collect and chop the plant material, and deposit it in trucks or wagons. These forage harvesters can be either tractor -drawn or self-propelled. Harvesters blow the chaff into the wagon through a chute at the rear or side of the machine.