With another busy harvest season fast approaching, farmers know when the pressure’s on and time is tight, so there’s a big advantage in having machinery designed to ease some of that mental and physical load.
Case IH’s Harvest Command™ is one such tool, designed to enhance harvest efficiency and productivity, with a minimum of fuss and maximum performance.
This advanced technology helps refine the harvesting process by reducing the number of functions operators need to monitor in the cab. Once the concave clearance and grain tank unload functions are set, Harvest Command takes care of the rest.
Already available on the current Case IH Axial-Flow 250 Series, Harvest Command monitors everything from ground speed and engine load all the way up to feed-rate control and sieve settings, which are based on the feedback received from the loss sensors, a grain camera and sieve pressure sensors.
These sieve pressure sensors are unique to CNH brands, including Case IH’s Harvest Command product, and are vital for ensuring the optimum performance of the combine. The sensors provide for the relay of data concerning the load on the sieve, which in turn allows the system to determine the difference between sieve overload and blow-out losses. A grain camera monitors quality, including cracked and broken grains - as well as foreign material, allowing for the adjustment of settings as required.
In fact, the Harvest Command automation on the Axial-Flow 250 Series uses 16 sensors to control a total of seven combine functions.
“Harvest Command is designed to maintain the greatest efficiency for the operator in all conditions, improving grain quality and grain savings through sensing and optimising machine settings,” said Marc Smith, Case IH Australia/New Zealand Product Portfolio Manager for Crop Harvesting.
The number of crops the technology is designed to operate in has been expanded in recent years beyond wheat, barley, canola, corn, soybeans and rice to now include sorghum.
Simplicity, productivity, grain quality and crop adaptability have been the hallmarks of the Case IH Axial-Flow series for almost 50 years, and Marc said the addition of Harvest Command further enhanced the Axial-Flow’s legacy.
“Five years on from the launch of Harvest Command, this is still the most impressive combine automation product on the market,” Marc said.
“And the positive news for farmers is that we have stock of the Axial-Flow 250 Series combines ready to go for the 2024 harvest, so customers don’t need to wait to harness the efficiency and productivity benefits of features like Harvest Command.”