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About Self-Propelled Forage Harvesters

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John Deere 9900 Self-Propelled Forage Harvester

Forage harvesters, also known as silage harvesters, foragers, or choppers, are machines with knives attached to a cutterhead used to harvest crops for silage. The first forage harvester was created in the 1890s and used a sickle attached to a cylindrical curved-bar cutterhead.

Variants & Operation

Today’s self-propelled forage harvesters are an all-in-one option with the cab, cutterhead, kernel processor, blower, spout, and other features included in the unit as opposed to pull-type forage harvesters, which are implements that attach to tractors. After crops are cut with either reciprocating knives or disc mowers, they are pulled through a chute into a wagon for hauling. With self-propelled harvesters, these steps can be achieved with one piece of machinery, making it an ideal solution for large operations that will have numerous fields to harvest. Many newer models also come with a crop processor for corn which will crush the kernels to prepare them for storage.

Find The Right Self-Propelled Forage Harvester

TractorHouse.com offers a large selection of new and used self-propelled forage harvesters. Popular manufacturers include CLAAS, John Deere, Krone, and New Holland.