AS SUCH, WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ACRES WE CAN CUT.
Like most other farmers, Dan and Keith Lamb are always looking for a better tool for the job. Anything that can make the job go faster and easier, and give them a competitive advantage, is a welcome addition to their large custom harvesting operation near Bakersfield, California.
THEY ARE VERY QUIET AND COMFORTABLE TO WORK IN.
Ross Dickins has spent the past decade refining the art of windrowing canola. What started as a contract job, windrowing the odd crop in the Riverina, has now become a serious business that's seen Ross, his wife Prue and four children up sticks from Berrigan in NSW and move to Willaura in western Victoria.
“I had been contract windrowing in the Western District for about 10 years and last year I was offered full-time employment on a property at Willaura,” Ross said.
OUR THOUGHT IS IF WE CAN SAVE ONE BUSHEL AN ACRE ON 6,000 ACRES … THAT’S $60,000 A YEAR.
“Daddy, is it really that big? That’s twice as tall as our house.”
FARMERS WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO PUSH THEIR COMBINES TO THEIR HARVESTING LIMITS.
For many years now, as combine harvesting capacity has increased, farmers have not been able to fully capitalize on that increased capacity due to the crop handling limitations of their headers. But now, all that has changed with MacDon’s introduction of its new 45' FD70 FlexDraper® – a flex header whose harvesting capacity is greater than most Class 9 combines.
THEY CAN’T BELIEVE THAT WE CAN RUN 40 FEET IN OUR HILLS, AND DO THE JOB THAT WE’RE DOING.
IF IT WASN’T FOR MACDON I’D STILL BE OUT HERE ON MY OWN, UPSET AND FRUSTRATED.
Farmers looking for a better way to harvest their soybeans were the ones responsible for pushing MacDon to pursue a flexible draper, and no farmer championed the idea more than Bruce Nelson of Clark, South Dakota.