1-3 IAN Equipment Adjustment

As a former researcher, it amazes me how much you can learn by just targeting a search and then hitting the Internet. Let me provide an example. Assume that you are growing corn. The last thing you want to do irrespective of the size of your yield is lose corn after all that work and money producing it. I found something called Lesson from the Land and in this episode - assume we're moving into harvest with a tough - but common - topic - harvest loss. Dr. Mark Hanna - who is an Iowa State University Extension Agricultural Engineer - says producers should lose no more than one bushel of corn per acre each harvest. However - he says some producers are seeing losses of three-to-four bushels per acre - which can have significant impacts. "It may not sound like much but when you start to look at grain prices, even today's corn prices, your harvesting may be 10 to 12 acres now or something like that with your combine that can add up, where leaving maybe 35 to 40 bushels of grain out there in the field, that's on a per hour basis, the cost of the grain you are leaving out in the field often rivals the cost of the entire harvest operation"

Dr. Hanna says your equipment plays a big role in overcoming harvesting challenge: "today we have a number of different features on machines that will allow operators to make adjustments on the go and being familiar with what those important adjustments are and how to make them is critical."