Maintenance of the straw chopper's knives or hammers will ensure performance.

As well, several after-market straw chopper options are available.

The forthcoming straw-banning ban will have straw choppers running to their limits.

However, we did use the straw chopper and spreader on the John Deere for one section.

He beefed up the straw chopper on this combine by bolting 2 swather knife sections on the end of each hammer.

Ed runs a 9600 John Deere combine and last year the company came up with an straw chopper upgrade that has made Ed really happy.

However, some new straw choppers are capable of doing an adequate job, particularly when the flax has been pre-harvested with glyphosate and allowed to dry down completely.

I have a Case IH combine that did not have a straw chopper on it when I purchased it, so I installed one.

Hay and straw harvesters: presses, rotary presses, balers, straw choppers, maize choppers, self-loading trailers (1952)

Effect of straw chopping: In zero tillage systems, the use of straw choppers during combining effectively reduces straw size and improves spread of straw over the soil surface.

If I have time I put up feed straw by taking the straw chopper off the combine and running a baler behind to pick up the fines and short straw.

In addition, a number of small Saskatchewan farm equipment manufacturers have become major enterprises, employing hundreds of people and exporting advanced equipment such as air seeders, and straw choppers and spreaders to world markets.

Harvest was by sub-sampling with a binder, with the remaining crop combined with a plot combine, and the residues managed with a flail mower to approximate the effect of a straw chopper on a combine.

On our TR96 combines, we modified the straw chopper by enlarging the deflector fins and replacing the original hammers with heavier ones to create a full 25 foot straw spread, the width of the straight cut header.

Hodnett said that, despite a value of between £30 and £40 per acre for straw in the swathe, rising to £50 per acre for baled straw, there seemed to be more farmers in Angus foregoing this potential addition to their income by using straw choppers on their combines.