Research Report : Harvest Performance
The cost of a new crop-ready, high-capacity harvester is approaching a million dollars and farmers are looking to extract optimal capacity from their harvesting investment.
At the same time, loss quantification is essential to determine a harvester's operating sweet spot. Kondinin Group research engineer Ben White worked with harvester specialists Brett Asphar and Kassie van der Westhuizen looking at options to improve harvester performance utilising both original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and aftermarket parts.