Good enough to eat

Edible-soybean grower Jeff Furness from Yale, Michigan, won an award for having the cleanest edible soybean sample from Hapi-Ohio, the company in Marysville, Ohio, that buys his beans. Jeff harvested the beans with his New Holland TR™99 combine. Hapi-Ohio buys soybeans from 130 growers who produce a little more than 415,000 bushels of edible soybeans each year.

Jeff says his Dad started raising edible soybeans about 25 years ago. In 1995, the Furness farm bought their first TR Twin Rotor™ combine. "We've got a good dealer that's close by. That's one of the biggest reasons we started with the New Holland machinery line," says Jeff. "We've been satisfied with the combine itself, too, as far as the ability of the combine to work in edible soybeans."

Beans harvested with a New Holland TR™99 Twin Rotor™ combine won Jeff Furness a quality award for harvesting food-quality soybeans.

The edible soybeans are used for tofu, and it's very important to keep the skin on and to keep the bean intact for optimum quality. Jeff says that although a lot of growers use a belt conveyor to preserve the soybean, he feels confident using an auger conveyor. "People are surprised, but we have very little damage through the combine," he says.


From first to last

Farmer uses nothing but New Holland forage cutters

When Galen Geyer started custom cutting in 1964, he bought New Holland's first self-propelled cutter model. "I bought an 818 for $7,000 new," he says. "My dad said I would never pay it off."

Well, he did, and then some. Galen has also used an 1880, 1895, 2115 and FX45 to help on his mixed grain operation of wheat, forage sorghum, grain sorghum and corn. He also raises 200 beef cows on his farm in Wakeeney, Kansas.

His wife, Angie, took this photo of all five of the New Holland cutter models he has owned. Years ago, he sold the 818, but finally tracked it down and repurchased it. The 1880 is not his original cutter, but he found this exact model at an auction. He still uses his original 1895 for smaller jobs. "I have well over 10,000 hours on it," he says. The FX45 is his newest model, which he bought in 2003. Clearly, he is happy with the performance and quality of New Holland's forage cutters.


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