The Yetter Stalk Devastator is a field-proven stalk roller designed to protect tracks and tires during harvest and speed up stalk residue breakdown. Unlike stomper-style attachments, these stalk rollers use flat steel bars that knock over and crimp stalks. This allows water and air to enter stalks, facilitating faster decomposition."New hybrid stalks simply do not decompose like stalks used to. We tried stomper-style attachments and were completely disappointed—there was no measurable success at all. Then about seven years ago, we switched to the Yetter 5000 Stalk Devastator and saw complete tire protection for all equipment entering the field, as well as much better stalk decomposition.
“When the time came to upgrade corn heads, we knew no matter what corn head we ended up with, it would definitely be equipped with Devastators!”
Nate Young - Illinois
“Our operation is a small family farm. We do some continuous corn, and we tend to cut high to leave as much of the stalk as we can. We had a 9450 combine that we loved, and we had the Devastators on the 693. Easiest trips we've ever made! It shattered the stalk, then we had some rainfall on it. We came back in a couple weeks and it was amazing. We just loved it.
“With the current hybrids, we're producing more and more yield, right? So there's just so much more plant material we have to manage on the back end. One way [to do that] is getting in early, cracking those stalks open, allowing it to get weather, then water, and then coming back and shattering it, and then we allow it to go right into strips. … We do as much as we possibly can to break it down now. It just allows us to be very efficient with our time.”
Ben Sanberg - Illinois
Today’s hybrid cornstalks cut into rubber tires and tracks on combines, tractors, and grain carts during harvest. Combine replacement tires can cost up to $12,700 for a front and $3,000 for a rear, while one replacement track can cost $3,500. It’s easy to see how this damage impacts your profitability!
The Yetter 5000 Stalk Devastator protects your investment. Its spring-loaded rollers attach to the bottom of the corn head. These rollers knock down and crimp stalks ahead of combine tires, preventing damage to equipment running both during and after harvest.
On top of saving tracks and tires from stalk damage, the Devastator is a residue management tool that improves field conditions for the next planting season.
Not only does the Devastator roll down cornstalks, it also crimps them—something stomper-style attachments don’t do. This allows air and water to enter stalks. Nutrients from the broken stalks are released into the ground, jump-starting faster microbial activity.
Growers with conventional corn heads who harvest with the Devastator installed get the benefits of faster residue breakdown without switching to more expensive, higher-horsepower chopping corn heads. And stalk breakdown saves you from making vertical tillage and stalk-chopping passes, increasing your profitability and ROI.
Beck’s Practical Farm Research provides unbiased, farmer-focused research through studies conducted across the Midwest. After a three-year study, the Yetter 5000 Stalk Devastator earned the designation of PFR Proven in 2017. A Beck's PFR Proven product or practice provides a positive yield increase during three or more years of testing. Products must average a positive return on investment during that time.
Beck’s evaluated the Devastator alongside other residue management tools across multiple locations, tillage practices, and conditions. The Devastator provided an average yield improvement of +3.3 bu./acre in no-till systems and +9.3 bu./acre in conventional till systems. The Devastator also averaged a +6.3 bu./acre yield advantage in corn-after-corn.*
*Please remember yield results vary based on many factors each year. Always consider your unique operation when deciding what equipment to invest in. Data found here is only a starting point.
"We went from a 12-row planter to a 16-row planter, which changes your head. The corn head that we got had stalk stompers on it, which we've had some experience with. But we liked the results of the Devastator [we had two] so much more than we had with the stompers that we ended up buying another Devastator, the middle one.”
"Simply put, the Devastator does what no other product can. By crimping the stalk and fracturing the root ball, it allows immediate decomposition inside of the stalk. All of this while requiring no additional trips across the field, no additional horsepower, and no additional time. Plus, it does this through sizing and loosening the stalks, which eliminates that residue from movement via wind and water."
AGCO | Gleaner | Challenger | Massey Ferguson
Case IH | Claas | Drago | Fantini | Geringhoff
Lexion | Capello | John Deere | New Holland
Chopping corn heads | Non-chopping corn heads
Narrow row spacing | Wide row spacing
