Schrock Farms, near Holdrege, NE, put the John Deere X9-1100 to test the maximum harvesting capacity for the second year in a row. Tom got in the X9-1100 with a C16R corn head at 9:06am for a total of 13.5 continuous hours and never looked back!
- 366.4 Total Acres Harvested
- 101,554 Total Bushels Across the Scales in 13.5 hours
Equipment and Technology:
- 2021 X9-1100
- 1100 LSW Tires
- 2020 C16R
- Opposed Stalk Rolls
- Non-Chopping
- 9 Semi Trucks
- 3 Grain Carts
Settings:
- Chaffer 24
- Sieve 23
- Fan 1430
- Concave 30
- Rotor Speed 450
Location and Run Time:
- Holdrege, Nebraska
- Two 320 Acre Fields – 4 Miles Apart
- Center Pivot Irrigated with Dryland Corners
- Yields – 290 bu/ac and 264 bu/ac
- 9:06am Start Time
- 10:36pm Stop Time
- 13.5 total Hours Harvesting
Summary:
8 hours
- 61,981 bu – 7,748 bu/hr
- 58,271 – 7,283 bu/hr (X9-1000 harvested in 2020)
10 hours
- 77,717bu – 7,772 bu/hr
12 hours
- 91,850bu – 7,654 bu/hr
Total (13.5 hours)
- 101,554 Bushels
- 7,522 bu/hr
- 366.4 Acres
- 27.14 ac/hr
- 97 Semi loads
Conditions:
- 20 MPH winds, 40-50°F
- 250-320 bu/ac, 14-17% moisture, 59lb test weight
- Light rain shower the evening before made starting conditions tough
- Stalks in lower-yielding field allowed combine to pick clean
- Tough stalks early in the day had some cases of row unit plugging at 7mph slowing us down
- Stalks in 2nd field were very dry and brittle where combine took in a lot of trash
- Total header/combine losses were between 0.5-1 bu/ac
- Grain quality was very clean with minimal cob in tank for such open settings
- First field was baled so windrowed
- Second field was spread
- Some rough terrain/rolling ground
- Less than 4° slopes
Total Loss – Combine + Header:
- 0.5-1bu/ac or less
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Grain Quality: 
- Clean Sample
- Very Little Grain Damage
Productivity:
Total
- 7,522 bu/hr
- 197 acres over 8,000 bu/hr
- 54% of the time
- Second field was higher-yielding, but rougher terrain and took in a lot of trash from brittle stalks
Average Speeds
- 5.89 MPH While Harvesting
- 9.85 MPH Headland Turn Speed
New map capabilities in your Operations Center Account on November 10th – Example below – Yield / Fuel Productivity
Fuel Efficiency:
- 351.3 gallons in 13.5 hours
- 0.95 gal/ac
- After 12 hours, we stopped for 7 minutes to refuel to get to 100,000
New map capabilities in your Operations Center Account on November 10th – Example below – Yield / Efficiency
Fluid Efficiency: 
Diesel Fuel Consumption
- 351.31 Total Gallons
- 26.02 gal/hr
- 0.96 gal/ac
DEF Consumption
- 14.2 Total Gallons
- 1.05 gal/hr
- 4.96 Fluid oz/ac
Power:
- 100% JDLink power is displayed as peak power (690hp/515Kw)
- X9 1100 Rated is 603hp/450kw
- Average power while harvesting is 96.76% (668hp/498Kw)
- Unloading continuously allows harvesting beyond rated power and remain at rated speed
