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Johnny Verell, the extreme ag. You know, we're out here today harvesting some corn, getting ready to start back up this morning
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and you know, 2025 has been a year of extremes. We've had extremely wet weather all the way up to July, and then from July to, you know, here it is, the,
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I don't know, about the sixth, 7th of September and it's just now got our first rain in almost 60 days. So this combine here, sitting here behind me,
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we run Estes Concaves in all of our combines. And I've been running this combine here and you know, you don't think that really matters a lot year
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to year if everything's uniform and everything's the same, but when you have a year, like this year
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where the crop absolutely shuts down, it dies prematurely sometimes from the drought conditions, stuff like that.
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Being able to have a concave that you can actually customize, do a little more with is a big deal.
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You know, these, these ears here, you know, we're scrubbing 'em off good and clean. We always kind of go out and check
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and see what the size of the cob is so we can set the clearance on the concaves, adjust 'em down.
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But the biggest thing I like about the SS concaves, it really allows us to slow our concaves down. We're running the Concaves right now, about 240, 250 RPMs.
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Just really letting that corn flow through real slow, keeping it from breaking it up so much. We run most of our corn through a dryer, so being able not
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to damage that corn before it goes through the dryer really does cut down the amount of damage coming outta that dryer.
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So the gentleness of the concaves, how they're able to be a little more aggressive just 'cause of how they're designed naturally
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and you're able to slow that RPM down on that concave has been a big deal for us 00:01:16.545 --> 00:01:18.365