John Beshler, who farms 4,500 acres of corn, wheat, soybeans and alfalfa near Arnold, Nebraska attended a demo. “Capacity-wise, it’s a tremendous machine”, says John. “We were running 5.5 to 6 mph with a twelve-row head and we couldn’t max it out. It’s got a lot of nice features, too. You adjust the sieves and so forth right from the cab. You hardly have to get out. It did a good job over a wide range of settings – cleaned the corn well and didn’t crack it. It’s right up there with the best combines.”

Dan Carl, who grows 4,000 acres of irrigated corn near North Platte, and custom harvests another 1,800 acres, particularly liked the unloading system. “It was phenomenal how fast it unloaded compared to our Deere combine. And the auger had good clearance over the grain carts, too. That’s a big thing with us because we’ve got a lot of sandy, rough pivots. I was really impressed with the self-leveling system. On side hills, capacity and grain quality stayed real good because the downhill side didn’t get overloaded. New Holland has a pretty good combine there.”