Lowest fluid consumption per bushel of grain harvested

A quarterly publication for owners and fans of Gleaner combines
Lowest fluid consumption per
bushel of grain harvested » University
of Nebraska puts on an edible bean field day
Gleaner featured on Rural America Live » Custom harvester
makes a believer out of a John Deere owner » Fall harvest results are
the best yields and highest crop density on record for many farmers
FOURTH QUARTER, 2014
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Lowest fluid consumption per bushel of
grain harvested
Gleaner S8 Super Series combines continue to set
new standards for grain quality and loss levels and it is
something we are very proud of.
But we have also developed a reputation for being
the lowest fluid consumption (diesel and DEF) combines
in the industry class 6 through class 8, and that comes
from intelligent engineering.
How do we do it?
It starts with the only welded mainframe in the industry coupled with the only transverse rotary technology anywhere. This results in a compact, low center of
gravity, lighter, yet durable platform that sheds needless weight and parasitics, and results in substantially
lower power and fuel consumption. It also permits us
to carry the largest standard grain bin capacities in the
business at 390 bushels, and still be lighter than every-
one else. Our Natural Flow technology
design with straight through shafts
eliminates the need for wasteful 90°
gearboxes. Even our SmartCooling™ fan and efficient straw chopper
design saves as much as 80 horsepower collectively versus competitive machines.
Since Gleaner operates a lighter efficient combine than everyone else, it
means reduced engine loads versus competitive combines, to do the same amount of work. This results in
lower fuel and DEF consumption, plain and simple.
Gleaner’s unique DEF system software only injects
what is needed into the exhaust, versus competitive systems that inject a constant amount of DEF, reducing the
amount of diesel exhaust fluid required. Gleaner does
not require a diesel particulate filter as
one of the leading competitors requires,
reducing the amount of heat rejection.
In 2015, we increased shoe capacity
on the S8 Series for crops like high moisture corn by increasing the pneumatic
cleaning area by 992 square inches with
our new perforated cascade pan, without
increasing the weight of the combine.
That’s efficient technology.
See your Gleaner dealer and find out
why we have developed a reputation for the
most fuel and energy efficient harvesting machines in the industry, and see it for yourself operating along side your current combine
University of Nebraska puts on an edible bean
field day
On October 17, 2014, the University of Nebraska
hosted an edible bean field day near Alliance, Nebraska. Approximately 100 participants attended throughout
the day including personnel from local dealerships as
well as manufacturer representatives. It was a beautiful sunny day with temperatures at around 70 degrees
which made for excellent combining. Horizon West of
Scottsbluff showcased a CIH combine with a 30’ MacDon header. 21st Century Equipment from Scottsbluff
brought a JD S680 combine with 40’ JD draper header,
Alliance Tractor of Alliance, Nebraska, the New Holland
dealer, brought their custom harvester demo combine, a
CR 9080 with 40’ draper header and Jim Mapes of Henkens Equipment in Chadron, Nebraska brought out a
Gleaner S77 combine with a 35’ 9250 DynaFlex header.
The pivot of pinto beans has been 8 years in continuous no-till. The rotation was corn, beans and wheat. The
pinto variety was Sinaloa-planted June 6th and drilled in
7.5” rows with a population of 130,000. The herbicides
used for pre-emerge were Outlook/Prowl and postemerge were Raptor/Result. 20 lbs. of phosphorus was
applied with the seed, 50 lbs. of nitrogen via chemication. According to the yield monitor which had been calibrated in the Gleaner, the yields were averaging near 70
bushels.
Customers had a chance to see all the combines
run, look at the grain bin samples from the Gleaner- although we noticed that none of the other manufacturers
had a grain bin sample on hand for people to look at- as
well as ride along with the operators. The University of
Nebraska took sample counts and loss checks several times during the day behind each of the combines.
The Gleaner averaged about 1.3 bushel per acre loss.
This was pre-harvest loss, header loss and combine
loss. The university personnel encouraged growers to
ask questions about the headers being used to harvest
the edible beans, since this field day was about
draper headers and their performance in edible
beans.
The Gleaner S77 combine spread the crop
residue material evenly behind the combine.
Mark Watson, owner of the pivot, made mention
that the Gleaner did the best job of spreading
the material evenly over the field. Because Mark
Watson’s operation is no-till, this was of particular concern to him. Mark said that the strips
and skips left by other combines would make for
soil temperature variability as well as other concerns during growing season. Everyone seemed
to be impressed by the Gleaner S77 and DynaFlex draper header’s overall performance. Thank
you to Jim Mapes and our AGCO field team for
their report on this interesting event.
Custom harvester makes a believer out of a
John Deere owner
Buddy Barr is a custom harvester from Mississippi
who was awarded a job to harvest sesame near Greenville, Mississippi. Buddy got the job of harvesting the
sesame because of the job he did on this man’s soybean
crop which is an interesting story. Buddy was between
soybean crops that were ripe, and was looking for additional work. He had about given up when he remembered to call this guy. He told him who he was and that
he had a new combine, but didn’t tell him what it was.
The gentlemen told him that he had around a thousand
acres and he could cut it with a couple of other guys.
Buddy went up there and got ready to go when the fella
pulled up and seen his Gleaner S78 combine and said,
“What the hell is that?” He thought that Buddy was one
of his brothers and had Deere combines. Anyway the
guy visited with him and let Buddy get started. The next
morning he showed up again and began looking over
the job Buddy had done. Buddy went over after a while
and asked him what he thought. The guy told him that
he was sure Buddy was going to make a mess, and he
would have to run him off the next day. But it was just
the opposite. He said the Gleaner S78 combine was
doing the best job he had ever gotten from a custom
harvester and eventually let Buddy have all the soybean
acreage, and didn’t bring in the other combines. After
he was finished, he asked Buddy if he would come back
and cut his sesame. According to Buddy, this guy is all
green, but is a Gleaner believer now. Thank you Buddy
Barr for sharing the story on how a difficult John Deere
owner, now has a greater understanding and respect for
what a Gleaner combine can do in anyone’s field.
Custom harvester
is proud of bean
sample he takes to
the elevator
Preston Gapinski of Kulhanek Harvesting
shares one of his load tickets from the elevator
in Lebanon, South Dakota this fall bringing in
the cleanest soybeans around. This is indicative of the reputation of a Gleaner combine
and the grain quality they deliver to the elevator. With FM (foreign matter) of .700 and incredible low dockage means more money for
our customers. Preston- Thank you for sharing with us as Gleaner continues its reputation of delivering the best grain quality of any
combine.
Fall harvest results are the best yields and highest
crop density on record for many farmers
2014 will go down as one of the highest yields on
record for farmers in much of the wheat, corn and soybean areas of the US. Our experiences and travels have
brought us to 80-100 bushel wheat in Grant, Nebraska
and areas of eastern Colorado, a lot of 200-250 bushel
corn in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Indiana. Some high
moisture corn in Indiana ranged from 250 bushel to 309
bushel at one farming operation. Farmers that were
achieving 60 bushel soybean averages, were hitting 7580 bushels this year. A cooler wet summer and fall produced incredible yields and greater crop densities.
(ABOVE) Glenn McElwain took delivery on his two
Gleaner S88 combines, 18-row, 20-inch Geringhoff corn
heads and 36’ draper heads in Butler, Mo. After harvesting 75-80 bushel wheat, 61 test weight and 14% moisture, Glenn also experienced above average yields in
both corn and soybeans.
Richard Spiegel who farms north of Watson, MO.
demonstrated a Gleaner S78 combine with a 35’ DynaFlex™ draper header on his operation averaging 75-80
bushel soybeans with very tough green stems. They
were operating with speeds ranging from 2.8 mph-3.2
mph. A great challenge for any combine.
A recent story from a farmer on the Combine Forum
who got to ride on a Gleaner S88 combine this fall after
receiving a call from a local dealer who called him to
see if he wanted to take a ride in one of their customer’s
Gleaner S88 combines picking soybeans with a DynaFlex header.
“We have been talking back and forth about looking at Gleaner’s S Series, so since they hadn’t started
picking, I went to check it out. Our current machine is a
Lexion 760 with a 40’ FD70 so that was my comparison
base.”
(ABOVE) Jason Hasert of Toy Tractor Times took this picture of his
good friends at Greenfield Farms who had upgraded to a Gleaner S78 from
a Gleaner R75 combine. Thank you Jason for the pictures
(BELOW) Richard Spiegel who farms north of Watson, MO. demonstrated a Gleaner S78 combine with a 35’ DynaFlex™ draper header on his
operation averaging 75-80 bushel soybeans with very tough green stems.
Mike Rohlf provided some pictures from the first load harvested
with a 2014 S67 combine. The customer who bought the trade-in Gleaner
R66 combine that traded his New Holland combine in, was seeing 280 bushel/acre yields in sandy soil.
“I was impressed with both the machine and the head. The cab was a little quieter than the Lexion 760, but maybe the fit and finish of the 760 is a little better. Unloading speed was very impressive. It was a very nimble tight turning radius, and overall a smooth ride. The power also was quite impressive, we were going around some terraces
and up some hills that were short, but steep. The engine load would go to 100% on the incline but he could still stay
above 4 mph and would slowly creep down back to about 75% as the power “bulge” seemed to kick in. At 5 mph in
green stem beans, 75% is where the engine load seemed to stay. I think he could have gone faster but this field had
been tiled last fall, so it was a little rough. The grain sample was second to none in my opinion. Clean with minimal
cracking, also the loss on the ground was very little, and mostly from sickle shatter due to low podded plants. His
spreader did a pretty good job at covering the 40’ spread, but the turbo chop on the Lexion was a little better. The
DynaFlex was amazing in my opinion. I know my FD70 would not have shaved the ground as well, without pushing
around the uneven terraces and hills. Overall it was a very impressive machine, and I think worth anyone’s time to
at least take a look at. I enjoyed the ride.”
This was an extraordinary year for yields and a great opportunity to push the limits of an S7 or S8 Series combine. If you haven’t demoed an S8 Series combine, we encourage you to do so.
AGCO’s display at Farm Progress Show in Boone,
Iowa takes best of show
AGCO’s preparation for the 2014 Farm Progress
Show started much earlier than most other manufacturers. In early May, we took our entire show lot and worked
with a local farmer and the Gilbert, Iowa FFA Chapter,
and turned it into a farm. We worked the ground, we
were planting, we were growing and harvesting. We
turned our entire lot into a scaled down farm. Customers could witness our products working in the field environments such as corn, soybeans and alfalfa and see
how we solve complex problems. One end of the lot,
we featured our Fuse technology pavilion with educational presentations on application, Bio-Mass, Gleaner
combines, Tillage and technology systems. In the center
of the lot was a 21’ high observation deck where you
could observe our products on the lot in an augmented
reality experience using an I-pad to learn about our features and technology . On the other end of the lot was
our GSI grain bin featuring a presentation entitled “Follow the Seed.” Gleaner had a 2015 S88 class 8 combine
with a 12-row corn head harvesting corn and unloading
into a 1,500 bushel grain cart. We also had a cutaway of
the new perforated cascade pan on display so everyone
could see the 12.8% increase in our pneumatic cleaning
shoe area. I presented a 20 minute program each day
entitled “There’s a problem with your shoe!” which talked about minimizing grain loss and maintaining a clean
sample in higher yielding, higher moisture corn, by
managing your shoe load with the industry’s first fully
pneumatic cleaning shoe. RFD-TV did a live interview in
front of the S88 combine previewing the 2015 Feature
preview of the S8 series combines. I hope many of you
made it to the show but if you didn’t, a picture is worth
a thousand words.
VIP Experience held in Hesston, Kansas
On November 17th and 18th, 2014, 78 competitive
owners and their Gleaner dealer came to Hesston last
week to see first-hand what makes Gleaner unique, and
to help them understand what Optimum Harvesting Performance means in profitability to their operation. The
morning consisted of wonderful interactive sessions
similar to what many of our customers experienced at
the S8 Series Product Launch in the fall of 2013, such
as a live dyno test of a Gleaner S78 combine with its
9.8L 7-cylinder twin-turbo charged engine and its sustained power and torque curve. There was also a unique
presentation on competitive weight and drive systems,
and the resulting horsepower parasitics versus the efficient Gleaner platform. We also presented the new Ag
Leader® ready yield- mapping/hybrid mapping option
now available on 2015 S8 Series from the factory as an
alternative to the AGCO FieldStar™ mapping. A customer running the Ag Leader Integra screen on his planter,
could unplug the monitor and plug right into his Gleaner
S8 combine with this option and he doesn’t need another monitor from Ag Leader to operate both.
Refreshments and a wonderful catered lunch was
served, followed by a special 2-hour plant tour which
featured a close up look at our new e-coat dip and powder paint system, the only one of its kind in the world in
the agricultural equipment industry. The entire Gleaner
VIP Experience™ event will once again be presented in
March, 2015 for prospective owners interested in learning more about Gleaner S8 Series combines.
Gleaner featured on Rural America Live
In the fall of 2013, Gleaner did something no manufacturer had ever done before. We televised the Gleaner
S8 Series product launch live on RFD-TV (Rural America
Live) to every cable subscriber across the US who has
RFD-TV through their cable provider.
On November 24th, 2014 at 7:00 CST, Kevin Bien and
Mark Oppold took the Rural America Live program on
the road and Gleaner televised its program, not from
a studio in Nashville, Tennessee, but from the Dennis
Shramek farm near Mexico, Missouri. Shramek Farms
has 17,000 acres of corn and soybeans that stretches
over 11 counties in Northeast Missouri. Dennis purchased 5 Gleaner S78 combines and heads and with a
Gleaner S77 combine, has 6 combines harvesting at one
time in different areas of his operation. I did an interview
with Mark Oppold while the Gleaner S78 machines ran
behind us that evening ahead of the threat of rain. We
then wired the cab so Mark Oppold could interview Dennis Shramek right from the seat of the combine, as they
are going through the field harvesting soybeans with his
DynaFlex draper header. Dennis is able to tell many of
you why he runs Gleaner combines and why they fit so
well his operation. So if you didn’t get to see it on television, visit gleanercombines.com for a link to the entire
broadcast.
There has never been a better time to purchase a
new or used Gleaner S7 or S8 Series combine
Between now and December 31, 2014, represents the best time of the year to take advantage of Gleaner new
and used combine programs.
New- 2015 model year S8 Series combines
0% for 12 months; AGCO Finance Std. Rate for 60 months for a maximum term of 72 months. Plus,
pre-purchase before December 31, 2014 and receive:
•
NightSight™ lighting
•
Premier™ heated and cooled seat
•
XR™ 2-speed shift-on-the-go hydrostatic transmission
•
Ag Leader® ready option
•
$10,000 USD value
New- 2014 model year and prior combines
0.9% for 18 months; AGCO Finance Std. rate for 54 months for a maximum term of 72 months.
Previously owned- 2005 and newer combines
O% for 24 months followed by AGCO Finance Std. rate for 48 months for a maximum term of 72 months.
Previously owned- 2009 and newer combines
0% for 18 months followed by AGCO Finance Std. rate for 54 months plus Gleaner SmartCooling™ kit
OR
0% for 12 months followed by AGCO Finance Std. rate for 48 months for a maximum term of 60 months plus
GleanerGuard™ Extended Service Coverage.
Previously owned- 1999 to 2004 combines
0% for 12 months followed by AGCO Finance Std. rate for 48 months for a maximum term of 60 months.
In the next issue of the Gleaner Newsletter
•
New performance Improvements to feeder house for increased capacity in canola for Western Canada.
•
New rotor sweeps and mounting information for improved performance in soybeans and canola.
•
Gleaner wins prestigious 2015 award.
•
2015 Quick Reference Guide for S7 & S8 Series Combines available early 2015.
Kevin Bien, Brand Marketing Manager
Gleaner Combines
420 W. Lincoln Blvd., PO Box 969
Hesston, KS 67062
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