2020 Wheat Harvest near Hugo Colorado 

When we harvest corn I drive my small 400 hp max combine and son drives the cart because 1/3 combining time the combine is dumping on the 1100 bu cart. It takes 20 minutes to get a semi load so I get to stop if the trucks loading is more than 1/4 mile from the combine. If we used the other cart then we would need another truck. When will it stop? JD X9 can harvest 7,000 bu per hr!

@@robertreznik9330 Not in dryland wheat!

We are in an exceptional drought here in Eastern Colorado this summer. The wheat would normally be better than this. This wheat in the video is pretty good considering the weather

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Okay I'm told a farm down in Preble County just got a Shellbourne this year.

The straw is left behind using a stripper header and many farmers want to use or sell the straw. It could be mowed & baled after harvest but that would cost more than combining it normally & baling it. Not all min-till methods will manage to plant the next cropping through all that long straw left behind. It also wouldn't be possible to plough down that much straw. Better to use the combine to harvest & chop it. Modern combine choppers obliterate straw. Not all crops work with a stripper header and therefore you need to buy an additional header alongside a more standard header. One advantage you didn't mention is that usually any dampness in a crop is at the base of the straw, because only the grain heads receive direct sun. A standard header/combine taking in the straw with the grain heads transfers some of that dampness to the grain, increasing the grain moisture content slightly. A stripper header avoids this.

For cutting strictly wheat the stripper head is the only way to go. At one time they had issues with large green weeds but I think the design has overcome that now

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Shelbourne Reynolds is the British company behind the stripper head technology.

Quite a bit. The combine is only having to deal with the actual heads of the wheat plants and no straw so the machine isn’t tasked with near as much separation

We were running anywhere from 6 to 10 miles per hour

Stetson, Thanks for contacting Mike and excellent of you to answer questions here. Hope you and your family have a safe season.

Machines vary, but in 50-60 bushel/acre conventional head last month, I was usually 3mph +/-, 4 max... So double speed for stripper

@@davidkottman3440 thanks for the replies

Had a dry fall last year and a dry spring this year. Had 50 mph winds and 95 degree days in June for a week straight when the wheat was heading out. Worst wheat I’ve ever seen this year. All of Colorado was awful

It looks like its missing the heads in places but I checked them and the grain is sucked out of them.

Cliff meadows I’m betting it’s getting all the grain out of the field

@@farmhandmike Great!!! I was a little worried. I hate to see wasted food!

If it’s a humid or a little tough it looks like it’s leaving heads but it’s not. Actually works better then when it’s to dry. Have to slow head down when it gets dry or you’ll loose to much wheat out the front of the header

Must be able to go so fast because they aren’t taking any straw in.

6 to 10 miles per hour

Horse power

If it is horsepower what is cutoff for the classes?

Should be same yield, but you can see the speed advantage in the video.