Harvesting

Get maintenance and adjustment tips for minimizing harvest losses and damage. Learn about the latest harvest equipment, including combines, grain carts, and headers.

Pre-harvest equipment inspection checklist

Follow a harvest equipment checklist to ensure everything is in working order before the combines roll.

Lee Lubbers harvesting corn

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Go over this pre-harvest equipment checklist now

Print this harvesting equipment checklist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for each piece of machinery and make sure everything is in order before the combines roll.

A Class combine harvesting soybeans.

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It’s a sellers’ market for like-new combines

This is the time of year used combine prices are “vigorous,” at best.

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Machinery Insider

An increase in trailer listings is good news for buyers

By Machinery Insider

Used hopper bottom prices have been exceptionally strong the past five to six years even when other farm equipment was depressed.

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Successful Farming TV Show

Low-hour John Deere 9620 RX tractors sell at auction

By Successful Farming TV Show

The hottest piece of machinery today are track tractors. Dave travels to an auction to check out prices on a pair of John Deere 9620 RX tractors.

Low-hour John Deere 9620 RX tractors sell at auction

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All Around the Farm

Inventive All Around the Farm ideas

By All Around the Farm

Successful Farming’s All Around the Farm section features ideas from farmers that can help save time, money, and labor.

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Combine fires: a $20 million avoidable problem

Preventative measures sidestep or minimize fire threat.

A John Deere combine engulfed in flames sits in a soybean field with black smoke billowing

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Clean your equipment between fields

Harvest time is hectic but if you clean out the combine between fields, you reduce spreading weed seeds, and the risk of your machine catching fire.

Combine in a dusty field

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Minimizing Soil Compaction During Harvest

For the health of your future crops, minimize soil compaction during harvest. Reduce deep tillage and just fill in those ruts.

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Exercise in the combine

Keep your flexibility up and the pain down during harvest season by exercising in the combine. Seriously. Here’s how to do it.

Combine in the field

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9 things that cause a combine to break down

Successful Farming magazine’s Combine Doctor, Rodney Edgington, identifies often neglected components in this preseason preparation guide.

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7 combine tweaks to boost speed

To guide you with the balancing act of combine performance, here's a short course on key adjustments that will keep you speeding across fields this fall.

Case combine harvesting near sunset.

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News News

USDA to spend $500M extending high-speed internet to rural America

Judge says Iowa’s third ag-gag law is unconstitutional, like previous versions

Evening Edition | Friday, September 30, 2022

Prep for winter feeding with sampling bales for forage quality

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