John Deere Press Room 2009

Lincolnshire farmers Joseph and Robert Pask and Morayshire farmer Robert Murray won a free day of wheat harvesting courtesy of a John Deere combine harvester at their respective farms earlier this year.

The lucky trio entered the Agrovista Ennobe fungicide competition at the 2009 Cereals Event and found out that they had won in August. “We asked entrants to answer questions linked to Ennobe, which is an exciting new cereal fungicide launched by BASF earlier this year,” explains Nick Rainsley, Agrovista’s marketing manager.

The combining was undertaken by a member of John Deere’s demonstration team using a John Deere C670i HillMaster combine equipped with a 7.6m (25ft) 625R cutting platform and a 10,000 litre capacity grain tank.

“This combine is equipped with an industry leading ProDrive automatic shift transmission,” explains John Deere’s combine product manager Mark Smith. “The machine is compact but high performance, because it utilises AutoTrac for automated steering and HarvestSmart for automatic forward speed adjustment; these technologies keep the machine at 100 per cent capacity all day long, and also help to keep operator stress to a minimum.”

September 2009