Combine – Overview and Benefits in Harvesting

 A ‘Combine’ is a modern self-propelled combine harvester, which gets its name due to its capability of combining all the harvesting steps into one inside the machine. The modern combine harvester has evolved as complex machinery that uses a significant amount of energy to work into the grain and crops field. It mechanically processes all the required steps for harvesting the crops. This modern harvester machine has replaced the many old fashioned machine like a thresher, grain reaper and binder that were earlier used to cut and gather the grain to place grain in shocks to let it dry in the field prior to carrying to a fixed threshing machine.

A combine harvester is compatible for harvesting crops like potatoes, carrots and beets as well as many types of grains like wheat, rice, corn, barley, soybean, pulses, sunflower etc. Self-propelled combine harvester are indeed a part of a fastest developing agricultural machinery market. Modern harvesters collects cuts, the grain process it and clean it in such a way that it can be directly delivered to the markets from the farm. The crop residues are thrown back into the fields in the form of fluffy straw 2-3 m wide, which can be baled easily and can be kept safe to be used to feed animals at dairy farms till a long time.

The combine machine has multiple benefits for farmers such as –

• During manual harvesting sometimes unseasonal excessive rains can damage the standing crops during the harvesting season which can slow down the process of harvesting. Though while using combine harvester farmers can complete the harvesting in very less time.
•  A combine harvester alone can harvest acres of land in hours that saves farmers from wasting time in arranging labours and also saves the cost of labours.
• The grains are cleaner and ready to use as soon as it gets out of the machine, so it can be directly delivered to the market, which saves the storage cost for farmers
• A multi-crop harvester can be used for harvesting various types of grains, a farmer just need to use the different headers as per the crop type.
• Modern combine harvesters are usually equipped with many advanced technologies as ac cabins and gps systems that allows the generation of digital yield maps.

Overall the machine is worth an investment for grain farmers as it alone can handle the work of a dozen of people, and delivers the high quality grains resulting into better profits.