harvest height

Header efficiency increases with harvest height.. SFS research and trials manager Paul Breust says harvesting these crops at 15cm to facilitate establishment of the following year's crop has become a common practice in recent years for those wanting to retain stubble... Mr Breust says with header speed adjusted to a 90 per cent engine load, it was not surprising that a crop harvested at 15cm high was 20 per cent slower than harvesting at 30cm high...

Header efficiency increases with harvest height.. SFS research and trials manager Paul Breust says harvesting these crops at 15cm to facilitate establishment of the following year's crop has become a common practice in recent years for those wanting to retain stubble... Mr Breust says with header speed adjusted to a 90 per cent engine load, it was not surprising that a crop harvested at 15cm high was 20 per cent slower than harvesting at 30cm high...

There is an urgent need for additional weed control options... The study has identified the potential opportunity to collect and remove seed of several weed species during the harvest of winter grown wheat and chickpea crops in the northern cropping region... Results from the weed seed samples currently being processed will provide information on just how much seed is being returned...