Cob Harvest Makes Strides
by Jeanne Bernick (Farm Journal) … “The equipment companies have stepped up to the plate,” says Weishaar, vice president of commercial development for Poet, the nation’s first cellulosic ethanol producer. Poet recently hosted a biomass harvest field day at the site of its future cellulosic facility, which will use corn cobs as feedstock. “They have made great strides in cob harvesting equipment since our field day last year,” Weishaar says.
Poet and the farmers contracting to provide cobs for cellulosic ethanol production are banking on this harvest equipment going commercial starting in 2010.
… Many equipment companies are vying for their place in the cob harvest market. Those demonstrating products at the Poet biomass harvest field day include:
- AGCO: Challenger 680B combine with Hesston Series LB34 baler
- Case IH: 8120 combine with cart biomass harvesting system
- Claas Lexion: 595R combine with C512 chopping corn head
- Demco: 1350 grain cart
- Fantini: corn head
- John Deere: STS combine with cob collection system attachment
- MachineryLink: John Deere 9770 STS combine
- Mil-Stak: PT/2010 pull-type bale wagon
- Oxbo: dump cart
- SmithCo: side-dump trailer
- Stinger: 6500 bale wagon
- Titan (Ken’s Truck and Trailer): Titan Walking Floor trailer
- Trinity Trailer: The Big Jim
- Redekop: H165 cob harvester with Redekop C180 cart
- Unverferth: Brent Avalanche 1194 grain cart
- Vermeer: CCX770 cob harvester
