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2022 Results and Impressions: Estes Concaves - Matt Miles

2022 Results and Impressions: Estes Concaves - Matt Miles

Matt Miles talks about his experience with Estes Performance Concaves.

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2022 Results and Impressions: Estes Concaves - Kevin Matthews

2022 Results and Impressions: Estes Concaves - Kevin Matthews

​Kevin Matthews talks about his experience with Estes Performance Concaves.

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Is the Honeybee Header the real deal?

Is the Honeybee Header the real deal?

On a recent webinar, Kelly mentioned how much he really liked the new Honeybee header that he purchased before this season started. Here is a quick breakdown of the reasons why he is considering buying another one for next season.

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TRIALING A NEW HEADER

TRIALING A NEW HEADER

Kelly takes his new Honeybee Airflex Header for a spin during wheat harvest. There are a few things he immediately likes about it.

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It's Almost Planting Season. So Chad is Working on His Combines

It's Almost Planting Season. So Chad is Working on His Combines

Chad brought his combines into the shop this week to get them ready for wheat harvest in June. He walks through a few of the maintenance items he looks for.

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Something New That Works Good

Something New That Works Good

It has been a tough season that Dan will be happy is over. So, no surprise that when he finds something that is actually working well for him, he's gonna tell us about it. In this case, Dan talks about his favorite "Yield Saving" features on his new Drago GT corn head.

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Chop it up and Spit it out: Residue breakdown Starts Here

Chop it up and Spit it out: Residue breakdown Starts Here

In a no-till environment, residue is an issue. Dan jumps out of the combine to show you why he loves the Stalk Devastator™ from Yetter when it comes to that first step to achieving residue breakdown.

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Inside the Narrow Band

Inside the Narrow Band

Dan is at the end of another farming season and it has been one spent almost entirely in a narrow band of Northern Illinois that has been dry and hot all year. Despite the intensive field management, Dan is off to a rough start in his first soybean field.

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How To (Inexpensively!) Increase Your Combine’s Efficiency and Capture more Yield

How To (Inexpensively!) Increase Your Combine’s Efficiency and Capture more Yield

Inside your combine there are a LOT of moving parts and some of those parts — specifically your machine’s concaves — might not be pulling their weight. What if an inexpensive change got you through harvest 25% faster, or allowed you to increase the size of your combine head — without changing out your combine? What if your combine’s concaves are losing a bushel per acre out the rear end of the machine? Or worse yet, grinding and splitting your crop or allowing too much foreign matter to end up in the hopper? Chances are, you don’t think a lot about the belly of your machine but you should. Chad Henderson discusses the benefits he’s seen on his Alabama farm since making the simple switch to the XPR2 Concaves by Estes Performance Concaves.

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