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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Roc RS1000 grass merger: The Rolls Royceof belt mergers?

  DRIVING IMPRESSION: The list price would certainly suggest that Roc's product is the Rolls Royce of belt mergers. So, is it? Here we go with our impressions.

  by Sebastian Rüther

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Fendt Katana 850 forage harvester: An endurance test

  PRACTICAL TEST: Last season’s woeful conditions for maize harvest certainly proved a challenge for our test Fendt forager … as, to be fair, they would have done for any harvester. Apart from a few minor…

  by Jan-Martin Küper

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Rhizomes and saplings: Less hard graft

  REPORT: If you want to mechanically harvest tree saplings, then you are going to need to embrace technology. Mark Pasveer visits one such farm in the Netherlands.

  by Tobias Bensing

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Black Beast: On the trail of the Black Beast

  REPORT: In our 2022 profi harvest special, we had a small picture of an intriguing machine, looking like a cross between a self-propelled sugar beet harvester and a combine. Since then, there has been a…

  by Andy Sewell

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Claas Commandor 115 CS: Wet harvest saviour

  REPORT: The Claas Commandor is a special combine harvester. The threshing system and chassis are different … and even the harvesting conditions were unique when we caught up with our featured machine.

  by Tobias Bensing

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Muddy Machines Sprout autonomous asparagus harvester: Sprout seeks to save asparagus

  REPORT: An autonomous harvester being developed by a UK start up could solve labour shortages which threaten the crop.

  by Jane Carley

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  Tim Koep from AgriExperts Consulting: Combine world tour

  REPORT: On September 27, 2022, 25-year-old farmer’s son Tim Koep was engaged by AgriExperts Consulting to carry out a six-month project in Australia. With just four days notice, the young man from Schleswig Holstein boarded…

  by Hubert Wilmer

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 2024 )

  AM Jervis and Son – Equi-Grass: Fuelling the equine elite

  REPORT: Looking at ways to hone its hay and haylage making business has led AM Jervis and Son to invest in a front-mounted merger to see if it could benefit crop making. We hear what…

  by Jane Carley

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 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.

  by Jane Carley

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  Issue: Harvest Special 2024 ( 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.

  by Hubert Wilmer

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  Issue: 10/2024 ( 2024 )

  Horsch Cultro 5 TC cultivator: Whirlwind in the field

  PRACTICAL TEST: Chopping and redistribution: Is the Cultro TC knife roller combined with three rows of harrow tines a sensible solution for stubble management?

  by Sönke Schulz

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