Johnny Found a Better Solution for Combining High Moisture Corn
17 Aug 242m 9s

Johnny Verell likes to harvest very high moisture corn. He talks about how the XPR Concaves have helped him reduce harvest loss and crop damage, especially with high-moisture corn and wheat.

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00:00 Johnny Rell, the extreme ag. We're out here today, we just finished up weed harvest a few weeks ago. 00:04 We're getting ready to get ready for this corn harvest that we're coming up on. And you know, a few years ago listened to some 00:10 of the guys talking commodity class and stuff. They were all talking about ESS is concaves. And, and one of the things that intrigued me about it was is 00:15 all these guys talking about how they're able to get their harvest lost down, get their damage down, stuff like that. 00:19 So we bought a couple sets a few years ago, put 'em in and just really fell in love with 'em because we run high moisture corn. 00:25 So we usually start shelling around 30% moisture corn. And one thing we were always having issues with was kind of crushing our corn with the, 00:31 the standard John Deere concaves. And so we switched over to the SS and it just, it really allows the, the crop to slow down. 00:36 It gives it what they always talk about, that corn on corn action keeps from being corn on metal. And that's really important to us 00:42 because when we're running our corn through a drying that high moisture, we can damage our corn. And any type of crack really starts magnifying when you have 00:48 any cracks in that corn going through that dryer. So that's really reduced our fines, really reduced our damage going through our dryer. 00:54 And you know, the other big thing about Es essence that we really like is once we put that set of concaves in, we're not changing 'em for the whole year. 00:59 And that's one thing when we were raising, we raised quite a bit of wheat and we were raising the wheat, we were putting in small wire 01:04 concaves and we're taking them out, putting in a different one for corn and beans. And with this is concaves, 01:08 we're running now basically on wheat. We add a couple of screens to the front to keep that wheat in there a little bit longer 01:12 in that rotor section. That's really all we do. So when we go to corn, we take that section of screens out and we roll right into corn 01:18 and beans and have no issues at all. And you know, you start cutting your RPMs down your, your rotor almost by half. 01:23 Sometimes that's a big deal. And the speed that you're doing is really minimizing that loss and that damage in that crop. 01:30 You know, on wheat I mentioned that just a minute ago, we, we show wheat wet also. 01:34 So a lot of times we're shelling wheat in the twenties. If you don't put in a concave to really help with that wheat harvest, it's high. 01:39 It's harder to do with that high moisture and the amount of residue that we're running. And you know, this year during our wheat harvest, 01:43 we got 12 inches of rain once we started harvesting in about a wheat. And it really lodge the wheat, laid it on the ground. 01:48 The s is concave really paid off 'cause they really worked that straw really good and got that residue out, 01:53 separated the grain right outta that residue. And really paid off for us this year because like I said, it was a tough year. 01:58 We shelled more weed on the ground this year towards the end than we were shelling standing in a day's time. 02:02 So it really made a, made it a lot harder when we were having to fight through that.

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