Allows us to be very efficient with our time
Categories: Stalk Roller
"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.
"[Then] 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 like 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."
