Farming Video | Kevin Matthews Harvests Sorghum with Estes XPR Concaves

15 Jan 26

Kevin Matthews is in the combine cutting his first-ever sorghum crop in Piedmont, North Carolina—and putting those Estes XPR concaves to the test. Milo can be tricky to thrash, especially in lower-yield spots, but Kevin’s not running cover plates or any tweaks—just the XPRs as-is. With clean results and a smooth sample, he’s proving these concaves aren't just for corn and soybeans. They’ve already tackled wheat and barley, and now they’re handling milo without a hitch. If you’re battling deer pressure and thinking about switching up your rotation, this might just spark some ideas.

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00:00:00 So we're cutting some milo today. Some po like to call it sorghum, but it's historically, sometimes it's known to be hard 00:00:09 to thrash and different cover place, different small wire, large wire round bar. 00:00:16 What concave do we need? Well, we put the xpr threes from esti to a test to see how they're going to perform. 00:00:25 Did not add anything to 'em, just exactly like they are. There's no cover plates or anything. 00:00:31 35 foot might non draper head, roughly 80 to 110 bushel yield environment. Not just exceptional, 00:00:39 but the more I read, those are harder yield areas to thrash. Do a good job 'cause you're not keeping the machine as full. 00:00:46 I will tell you it is very impressive. We're running the rotor at six 60. Got the concave on eight. Pretty dang on. Good job. 00:00:53 We're gonna show you a grain tank sample here in a minute, but again, it just shows how amazing these concaves 00:01:01 and the separator grates do, not just in corn that you hear so much about in soybeans, 00:01:07 but all the crops that we've tried. We, we've done hard red, I mean, excuse me, saw Fred winter wheat. 00:01:13 We've done barley, corn, soybeans, and now sorghum. It sho beets having to put concaves in and outta this machine. 00:01:22 You simply just put 'em in and run 'em. I do encourage you to inspect them annually. Make sure that there's no excessive wire or brakes in there. 00:01:34 Anything could happen, especially if you got rocky areas or chunks of wood or something. 00:01:39 And also be sure and check to make sure they're level, because the levelness of these concaves is what dictates the performance on them. 00:01:47 But again, we're gonna show you some pictures here of the mile low in the grain tank. Um, we're gonna pull a sample out 00:01:55 right here in just a minute. That's pretty impressive. My first year growing sorghum and, um, got a lot to learn, no doubt about that. 00:02:03 However, it's been, uh, fun. We've learned a lot. We know what we need to do to really make it profitable for us in these fields 00:02:11 where we have heavy wildlife pressure. And that's where we decided to put it at. That was the reason we're growing sorghum, is 00:02:18 because the deer population is so bad here in Piedmont, North Carolina. And it's pretty interesting to see, 00:02:25 and I think there's going to be a potential for some profit here. 00:02:29.595 --> 00:02:30.205