Equipment
These pieces of equipment permit the complete mechanization of harvesting, storage and feeding or forage.
What are forage harvesters?
A component that is required when gummy forage, such as alfalfa haylage, is being handled.
What is a water inlet?
The majority of modern forage harvesters utilize this style of system.
What are cutterhead and stationary knife?
What is a header?
A component that disengages power to a forage wagon
What is a safety clutch?
The other name for a bunk-feeder.
What is a forage wagon?
A hopper that lets material fall directly to the auger and the auger will carry material to the opening to be picked up by the fan.
What is a pan and auger hopper?
Cuts standing forage such as corn or sorghum and feeds the whole plant into the feed rolls.
What is a row-independent rotary head?
The section of the combine that is the heart of a combine and its used to separate up to 90% of grain from its stem, cob, or pod.
A feature that permits the combine to turn at the end of a field and cross waterways and other non-crop areas without affecting the yield calculation.
What is a header position sensor?
These pieces of equipment move chopped forage into vertical silos.
What are forage blowers?
A hopper that has a horizontal, rotating feed table, which whirls material directly into the blower opening.
What is a rotating pan hopper?
Optional piece of equipment used to crack seeds for easier digestion.
What is a kernel processor?
What is a cylinder or rotor?
A component that is a spiked augers or tooth bars on shafts, intended to help unload forage, break up lumps and help blend materials.
What are beaters?
This piece of equipment has 6 basic functions: Cutting, Threshing, Separating, Cleaning, Handling, and Residue Disposal.
What is a combine?
A hopper uses chains and slats or a belt on a level apron to carry the material to the auger.
What is a conveyor and auger hopper?
Optional component that reduces the length of chopped forage.
What is a recutter screen?
A component of the this function chops and spreads material out the back of the combine.
What is Residue Disposal?
A capacitance-type sensor that uses capacitors to accumulate and hold an electric charge on metal plates separated by dielectric gel to measure a required reading on a combine.
What is a grain-moisture sensor?
The required component for basic GPS functionality.
What are satellites?
What is a blower housing assembly?
The component of a forage harvest that gathers material from the forage head and feeds it in a uniform layer to the cutterhead.
What is a feed roll?
The function of the combine that includes the fan, chaffer and sieve.
What is the cleaning function?
A process that utilizes technologies such as satellites, sensors, and controllers can be used to improve performance and productivity of farm equipment while reducing operator stress.
What is precision farming?