For the past two harvests, Warwickshire farm manager Richard Ward has had prototype versions of New Holland's twin-knife Dual Stream concept on evaluation. He believes the increase in workrates in UK crops is as much as three times New Holland's official claim."We've seen output with our CX6080 go from 23t/hour to more than 35t/hour in wheat, and in rape the difference is even bigger," says Mr Ward."By having one knife snipping off the ears or pods and only that part of the crop running through the combine, while the second cut-terbar is chopping the stubble down to normal height, we're cutting a huge amount more crop and the grain is coming off drier.
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