Dakota Farmer

Check out videos of 16-row potato harvesting and 20-row silage chopping systems, and see what it's like to harvest more than 51,000 bushels of corn in 10 hours!

September 22, 2015

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If you like big farm equipment, check out Spudnik Equipment's new video of its 16-row potato harvesting system. You don't even have to grow potatoes to appreciate what's going on. Two six-row windrowers put potatoes on top of four unharvested rows and then a 4-row digger is used to pick up spuds from all 16 rows at once.

In the video Carl Taylor, of Taylor Falls, Idaho, says he needed only half as many harvesters and operators as before and he could harvest even more acres in day than with eight diggers. He was also cut back on trucks because he didn't have as many diggers to follow around.

Could you imagine being able cut your corn or soybeans truck and combine fleet in half?

"I love growing potatoes," Taylor says in the video, "and I love the big boy toys…we have to grow potatoes."

And while you are at it, don't miss John Deere 690i combine harvesting canola, or the  Claas Lexion combine harvesting more than 51,000 bushels of corn in 10 hours or New Holland's CR10.90 combine setting a wheat harvest record.

Cap off your video tour of big farm equipment by clicking on the "Chopping 20-rows of corn with Kemper" video. The audio is in German, but the video shouts "wow!" in any language.

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