Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | jde - 7/2/2009 20:51
here we raise SRW and back in say 1989 or so they first showed up. became a fad and probably where 30+ in the local area. still raise SRW in the area but today there are maybe less than 3 still running. they got such a bad rep for wasting wheat here that many at auction received no bids.
if you notice, draper heads are all the rave now and even the Big 3 OEM's are offering them and Deere has even developed their own i'm told? if the strippers had been a very successful tool, wouldn't the OEM's had made marketing deals with SR & sold them also. other than MF offering their take on the stripper i don't think that occurred?
one thing is for sure, a new MacDon 36ft Draper is an expensive tool but it is capable of harvesting how many different crops? the strippers where overly expensive when they first showed up versus a platform on a per foot basis? i can't imagine what a new SR stripper of any width cost today?
JDE, are their any of the post 95 model Shelbourne headers running in your area, or are they the old alleged grain wasters built pre 95 with the rubber belt system ?
i suspect that stripper headers are not more popular because so many seeding systems other than disc openers have a hard time with plugging in tall stripper straw.
While searching for stripper headers last spring, most new ones appeared to be priced at about $1300-1500 per foot.
Buy the way, for you, where is here ? Wondering where you grow SRW wheat ? |
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