<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Usage of modern technical means for sunflower harvesting, due to their construction designs, inevitably involves yield losses reaching up to 10–11%, as well as increasing of seed injury. Aim of the research presented was to develop a header for a breeding plot combine for sunflower harvesting. As a result, an experimental four-row header for the Delta plot combine for sunflower harvesting was developed and manufactured. The main values of the adjustable parameters are given, depending on the biometric characteristics of the plants being harvested. Using this experimental header, seed injury did not exceed 1.51% at a moisture content of 5.1% and seed losses did not exceed 1%.</p></abstract>

Usage of modern technical means for sunflower harvesting, due to their construction designs, inevitably involves yield losses reaching up to 10–11%, as well as increasing of seed injury. Aim of the research presented was to develop a header for a breeding plot combine for sunflower harvesting. As a result, an experimental four-row header for the Delta plot combine for sunflower harvesting was developed and manufactured. The main values of the adjustable parameters are given, depending on the biometric characteristics of the plants being harvested. Using this experimental header, seed injury did not exceed 1.51% at a moisture content of 5.1% and seed losses did not exceed 1%.

The Header for a Breeding Plot Combine for Sunflower Harvesting

V.S. Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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Usage of modern technical means for sunflower harvesting, due to their construction designs, inevitably involves yield losses reaching up to 10–11%, as well as...

The Header for a Breeding Plot Combine for Sunflower Harvesting

Published Online: Jun 13, 2019

Page range: 60 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2019-0011

Keywords
seed harvesting, construction, four-row header, auger feeder, seed injury and seed losses

© 2019 Vasiliy Dmitrievich Shaforostov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Header for a Breeding Plot Combine for Sunflower Harvesting

Published Online: Jun 13, 2019

Page range: 60 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2019-0011

Keywordsseed harvesting, construction, four-row header, auger feeder, seed injury and seed losses

© 2019 Vasiliy Dmitrievich Shaforostov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
seed harvesting, construction, four-row header, auger feeder, seed injury and seed losses