Day 7 of the #FendtHarvestTour: What Does It Take to Impress a 5th-Gen Farmer?
2025 Fendt Harvest Tour
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"This has been a unique year. How fast can we run, and not blow it out the back?"
The corn is DRY in spots across Illinois, and Day 7 of the #FendtHarvestTour takes us to Galesburg, where a fifth-generation farmer is trying he IDEAL for the first time. "I've never picked corn this fast," says Chad Johnson of J&J farms. And while the comfort of joystick control, the unload speed of six bushels per second, and the grain sample were all impressive to Chad, the real test was loss out the back of the combine.
So how did IDEAL do? Watch the find out, but spoiler alert: "We could've run faster!"
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