Overview

Common cereal equipment with horse-feed value.

Uses after harvest

Horse feed, flour production and direct sale.

Straw

Enable straw swath on the combine if you want the straw by-product. Collect it with a forage wagon or bale it for bedding, feed/TMR workflows or sale.

Detailed procedures

For each operation, follow the linked procedure pages below: soil preparation, seeding/planting, fertilising, weed control, rolling and harvesting. Equipment names in this article link to their individual operation pages.

Procedure

1. Open field information: apply lime only if required; plough only if the field says it is required.
2. Prepare the seedbed with a cultivator/disc/direct-drill route.
3. Fill the seeder with seed, select this crop and sow inside the planting window shown in the infobox.
4. Roll the freshly sown field if you want the optional 2.5% rolling bonus.
5. Apply the first fertiliser stage; after the crop advances at least one growth stage, apply the second stage.
6. Remove small weeds early with a weeder; use a hoe or herbicide if they become too large/row conditions require it.
7. When harvest-ready, fit a grain header to a combine, unfold/lower/activate it and harvest parallel passes.
8. If you want straw, enable straw swath on the combine before harvesting; bale or collect the windrow afterwards.
9. Unload the combine into a trailer before the grain tank becomes a bottleneck, then store/sell/process the crop.

Equipment & tools

Open an equipment page for what the machine does, how to set it up and how to operate it.

Detailed procedure guides

Research notes