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Central SD | We have been using a corn head for 3 years to harvest our sunflowers (2,000 acres) annually. We have a JD 1230 with knife rolls. We close our stripper plates to just wide enough to let the stalk through. Depending on the stalk, the knife roll either completely cuts through it about a foot down from the head or snaps off into the corn head at the stripper plate. What I like is what it does to the stalk. It just shreds it all the way down to the cutting height. If you drive a reasonable speed, our fields look just like they were done with an all-crop head. I feel that our shatter loss is not any worse than when we had an all-crop and acceptable vs. owning and maintaining an all-crop. But, I don't think it would work this year (Drought). Flowers look like they will make 100 - 300#'s. Pretty bad when a weed can't even grow. Short and small enough to use our flex head, if we even combine 'em.
Edited by Kamp 8/4/2006 21:12
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Harvesting sunflowers with a corn head?
