Hi followers,
the last week was just flying by. Because of the drought in Texas, the contractors are running full throttle right now. It won’t take long and the corn harvest is done for this year. The last week I could run several demos. Most of the customers were chopping for the feed lots here in the Panhandle of Texas.
Most of the feed lots are only calculating with the fiber content of the corn silage and want a long chop between 19mm and 25 mm. In some places they don’t even use the kernel processor to break up the corn. The corn this year is very uneven. In some places it reached to the cap, sometimes it was only 3 feet tall. Then it’s not very easy to show the performance of the chopper. But still, the customers were impressed with the machine. They liked the VariStream, which helped a lot in that uneven crop. A big advantage was our corn header Easy Collect, which is feeding very good in short and down crop and has no problems with weeds.
Beside corn, I have chopped some sorghum this week. Sorghum is getting more and more popular in Texas. It won’t reach the yield of good corn, but needs a lot less water to grow. And water is getting a bigger and bigger problem…
Yesterday I flew back to California. The corn harvest is on, so there should be lots to do this week.
Regards,
Benedikt
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