A Field Day sponsored by Monsanto and held in Nebraska on Nov. 2, 2016 provided an opportunity to look at multiple harvest methods and compare them with the New Holland Cornrower (shown in the video below). The Cornrower system of stover harvest offers unique opportunities to realize the benefits of stover removal from the field. Added revenue opportunities for farmers will be part of our future because of innovations from people working on stover harvest and innovative uses of stover.
On Oct. 19th, 2016 at Iowa St. University, the New Holland Cornrower was used to harvest corn on university property. The Cornrower will be used to evaluate stover removal as part of Iowa State’s ongoing efforts in this area of stover collection.
Ongoing studies involving the Cornrower at Michigan State and the University of Nebraska, as well as Iowa State, continue to build a deep database supporting the benefits of stover harvest and show that the Cornrower is the most efficient and least costly way to harvest stover.
The video below shows the Cornrower performing as expected at ISU. We would like to thank the university for its interest and research covering the Cornrower as part of its overall study on stover.
Version 2 of the New Holland Cornrower was ran on a farm up in Three Oaks, Michigan on October 4th, 2016. As you can see in the video below, the Cornrower excelled in creating chopped windrows as the field was harvested by the customer’s Case IH 5088 combine with a New Holland 980CR corn head attached.
Be sure to visit our Cornrower page for more information regarding this innovative product!
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The Fulton County Youth Leadership Academy (FCYLA) visited Ag Technologies, Inc. today to learn from Jim Straeter, founder and President of New Holland Rochester, about innovation. The FCYLA group is made up of junior high school students that live in Fulton County and spend the year visiting various places in the community to learn about leadership and what we have to offer before they make their journey off to college.
With several inventions and patents under his belt, Jim was able to share a number of stories on his years of experience as an innovator. The group learned today about Straeter’s patented Cornrower and solar systems that we currently sell. Both products have had years of research and development in an effort to become the successful products they are today.
We appreciate the group coming out and learning about Jim’s experiences and hope they learned about what it takes to innovate!
We’ve known for a long time that cattle like Cornrower stover because it doesn’t contain dirt and it is chopped up, making it much easier to ingest and chew. An endorsement of Cornrower stover from the steers that had gotten into a corn field that was being harvested came recently. After unloading grain and heading back to the corn being harvested, we saw steers eating the stover in the windrows – preferring that to the grain on the stalk, unharvested stover and grass that was immediately available.
Harvesting stover the right way makes a ‘waste’ commodity a valuable feed. Photos are shown above of the steers eating an evening meal, along with video from inside the cab and field level here:
For more information on the Cornrower and its performance and potential, call us at 574-223-2714!
The Cornrower and stover harvest evaluation efforts with POET in Emmetsburg, IA and New Holland continue this season. Last year’s results showed that ash (dirt) content in stover harvested from windrows made by the Cornrower were as clean or cleaner than stover from windrows formed solely from combine discharge. Stover yield and control of the amount of stover offered with Cornrower technology is not available from any other harvest system. New Holland and POET are both advocates of bio-energy, particularly with ethanol, through Growth Energy efforts. No other farm equipment manufacturer is actively promoting farmer’s products in the bio-energy area in the manner that New Holland is doing.
On Sept. 30th a stover harvest was done at Kaminski Farms in Three Oaks, MI. Leading the three-year study is Dennis Pennington of Michigan State University and he operated the drone and spliced video to make this film. New Holland Rochester provided the Cornrower and New Holland NA provided use of the CR6.90 combine for this study. Dave and Linda Kaminski and their son Aaron deserve a huge ‘THANKS’ for providing help and field opportunity for this effort. The Kaminski’s raise Angus cattle and will wrap the stover for evaluation later.
The Cornrower provides dirt and rock free windrows of chopped stover concurrent with the corn grain harvest. This video clearly shows the opportunity to quickly harvest clean stover as the New Holland round baler was packaging the stover right after the windrows were made, thereby capturing the moisture in the stover for ensiling the material. With chopping happening in the windrow process this material can easily be used for feed or bedding without further processing.
Results of the MSU effort will benefit all growers of corn as well as end users such as the Kaminskis and we are happy to be able to participate in tis effort.
New Holland Rochester founder Jim Straeter was honored recently at the Purdue University event held by the Economics Department annually to recognize significant contributors to the department.
The James C Snyder Memorial Lecture Series for 2015 honored Dr. Augustine Sangson Langyintuo, Dr. Robert Tse, Sara Vacek . Drs. Langyintuo and Tse were honored for their work in Economics in the Far East and Africa. Ms. Vacek is head of Soybean Traits for Monsanto and had done significant work with global economics in that area.
The Cornrower stover device patented by Straeter was the basis of an economic study in biomass conducted by Dr. Wally Tyner and the recently published study on solar in Indiana by Dr. Tyner was based on two solar systems installed by Straeter at New Holland Rochester. The results of the study showed that solar is competitive with the grid in Indiana even without the federal tax credit. This study is advancing the cause for solar in Indiana and can be seen here: Energy Policy – Solar Energy in Indiana
Agritechnica is by far the largest and most prestigious indoor farm equipment show on the globe and is held every two years in Hannover, Germany. At each show, the Innovation Committee awards medals to the most important and innovative inventions in agricultural machinery that have been developed in the two years since the last show.
Over 400 entries from around the globe were submitted, and a total of 37 medals (four gold, 33 silver) were awarded. New Holland submitted the Cornrower system, patented and developed by Jim Straeter of New Holland Rochester, for an award. The committee thought the Cornrower was important enough to award a Silver Medal at the show for the Cornrower.
Pictured from the left are: Abe Hughes, New Holland V.P. of Sales and Marketing, Hedley Cooper, Global Director of Product Development, Jim Straeter, President of New Holland Rochester, and Carlo Lambro, New Holland Worldwide Brand President.
New Holland became the first major farm equipment manufacturer to introduce a new method of harvesting stover with the demonstration at the 2013 Ohio Farm Science Review. The Cornrower mounted on a NH 99C corn head and CR7090 combine windrowed stover that was immediately round baled by a New Holland round baler, making a perfectly formed, solid round bale of moist stover that was then wrapped in plastic. This harvest system now makes it possible for farmers to take advantage of the huge reservoir of feed that stover represents but up to now was unavailable due to lack of harvest equipment that preserved moisture and kept soil and rocks out of the stover. Additionally, the Cornrower significantly reduces machine trips across the field, labor and equipment wear and tear as the baler can follow the combine immediately. Contact any New Holland dealer for information on the Cornrower system of stover harvest.
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