Reducing Harvest Loss with the Typhoon Feed Drum
Harvest management and reduction of yield loss is fast becoming a high priority for broadacre farmers and contractors as they look to increase farm productivity. For Ross Chandler, identifying a simple and efficient means of reducing losses at harvest time has been an easy and rewarding management decision.
Operating a large broadacre program in central NSW and running a contracting business, increased efficiency means improved harvest performance, reduced harvest loss and better returns for all involved.
Having installed a Typhoon feed drum into some of his headers last year, Ross was happy with their performance in the 2021 harvest. Ross said that the Typhoon feed drum increased their tonnes per hour, “they (Typhoon) allowed for more material to flow through the machine, which allowed for faster ground speed hence we were more efficient”.
Ross is running Macdon header fronts in his harvest program for both cereal and canola, which he direct heads. He said, “the installation of a Typhoon i-paddock feed drum has meant that, in big crop years, we’re not worried about clogging up headers with large crops…”.
“We used the Typhoon feed drum in canola and cereal crops, noticeably it was great with huge crop biomass, it helped increase feed speed of crop, ground speed and we covered the area quicker”.
With a focus on increased productivity, reduced losses and better efficiency for all involved, Ross is looking forward to the 2022 harvest and hopes it’ll be a good outcome. He’s looking at other harvest precision measures and precision seeding, weed management as a integrated approach. He said “Header setup is critical, if you don’t have it right you’re losing valuable time, crop and are not producing profitable results”.
The Typhoon feed drum allows growers to maximize their harvest capacity through easy installation and robust design. The Typhoon is manufactured by Primary Sales and designed by
i-paddock and available for most models of Macdon, Midwest and John Deere header fronts.
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