October 1, 2024
REPORT: NEW COMBINES FOR SEASON 25: Cutting edge combines
REPORT: Combine developments for 2025 focus on increasing capacity using technology as well as physical size to boost throughput.
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Combine harvesters
Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of combine harvesters.
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October 1, 2024
Claas Trion 730 combine harvester: High-end thresher formid-sized customers
PRACTICAL TEST: With the Trion (profi HS 2021), Claas is targeting mid-sized growers and contractors. We tested the single-rotor Trion 730 through the tricky 2023 harvest.
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July 1, 2024
Cereals 2024 preview: Cereals goes to work
REPORT: The Cereals Event moves to a new site this year – Bygrave Woods at Newnham Farm, Hertfordshire – on June 11th to 12th. There will be plenty of machinery on show, with an increased…
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July 1, 2024
New Holland CH7.70: Shaken, not stirred
PRACTICAL TEST: New Holland media focus may well concentrate upon the high-capacity CR11 combine, but the company’s ‘bread and butter’ models are just as important. Here we take a further look at the twin-rotor CH7.70,…
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April 1, 2024
New Holland CX860 vs CX8.90: A high-class benchmark
REPORT: It's hard to believe that New Holland’s curvy CX models hit the market over 20 years ago
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September 22, 2023
Case IH Axial Flow 9250 user review: Going with the Flow
REPORT: The latest flagship Case IH Axial-Flow 9250 has now been available for five seasons. We visited a Suffolk farm with 15 years of Axial-Flow experience to see how a recently-delivered 9250 has performed during…
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September 22, 2023
Claas Evion combine harvester: Small but mighty
DRIVING IMPRESSION: The Evion is now the smallest combine range from Claas, replacing both the Avero and what were the smaller Tucano 300 models. It surprises with plenty of technology already employed in the Trion…
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September 22, 2023
John Deere S600 and S700: Don’t slip up on a secondhand S
USED MACHINERY: John Deere S600 and current S700 series single rotor combines sit in the 70 to 75t/hr performance category respectively. Launched in 2012, the S600 models were replaced by the current S700 range for…
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August 4, 2023
MacDon M1170 NT5 windrower: Slimmer swather for narrower roads
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Dedicated swathers are not that common a sight in most parts of Northern Europe these days, unlike North America where these machines retain a strong following. This is not to say a swather…
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January 5, 2023
Driving Impression: Claas Lexion updates (Season 2023):
Three years on from the big Lexion range overhaul, there's now a fresh round of updates, including a new cab, an extra model in the 8000 series and a return of the Montana chassis-levelling system.…
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September 27, 2022
Report: Straw walker combines for 2023
With the exception of Case IH, which remains focused on its long-proven Axial-Flow rotary threshing and separation technology, all combine manufacturers continue to produce walker-separation machines. This method of separating residual grain from the straw…
