Three years ago, John Deere introduced its 9000 series, self-propelled, forage harvester line. For model year 2022, the brand is adding a new model to that series, the 9500. And the new harvester won’t be short on power. A new inline 18.0-litre John Deere 18X diesel will be the standard power plant for the new 9500. It’s rated at 690 horsepower and the brand’s HarvestMotion Plus feature can give it a whopping boost to 755 horsepower. And it meets emissions requirements without the use of DEF (diesel exhaust fluid).
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“This is a state-of-the-art engine with our HarvestMotion Plus feature that synchronizes engine speed with crop flow and power needs to maintain consistent crop throughput at low r.p.m. and with less fuel consumption, and no DEF requirement,” said Chase Milem, John Deere’s marketing manager for forage harvesters, in a press release.
To reduce maintenance times, Deere has pushed the regular service interval on the 18X diesel to 750 hours, and that helps give it a 33 per cent lower oil cost compared with the brand’s previous — and smaller — 13.5-litre engine, along with total reduced fluid consumption of 10 to 13 per cent.
The bigger brother of the 9500, the model 9600, will get the same 18.0-litre engine with HarvestMotion Plus bolted into it for model year 2022 as well. But for the 9600, the 18.0-litre diesel will put out 740 horsepower and the HarvestMotion Plus feature will pump that up to 775 when necessary, giving the updated models significantly more power than was offered in the previous 9600.
And the full 9000 series will see a variety of other updates as well. The 9500 and 9600 models for 2022 will include changes to the discharge spout, which improves crop flow, operator visibility and better control during unloading. The redesign includes additional cleanouts, new hydraulic spout flap to give operators precise unloading control and four spout configuration options, including 8- and 10-row rigid, 12-row rigid and 12-row folding spouts.
However, Deere will keep many of the existing features most popular with customers and carry them into the new models.
“We’ve kept all the high-performance, field-proven components like the DuraDrum cutting system, proven kernel processing options and HarvestLab 3000 constituent sensing and documentation,” said Milem.
The 2022 model year harvesters will include the same header options as before. Buyers will still be able to choose between the small drum 600 series or large drum 700 series, along with a pickup header.
When it comes to digital technology, Deere considers the updated 9000 series models to be the most advanced yet.
“Each model comes equipped from the factory with a 4G JDLink MTG (modem),” said Milem. “Once activated, customers can stream their machine and crop data to their John Deere Operations Center account free of charge. This also lets owners monitor their equipment via the Operations Center mobile app in near real time from anywhere. With the customer’s permission, their local John Deere dealer can provide remote support via John Deere Connected Support. This provides customers with valuable machine health monitoring and fleet management tools.”
And when ordered guidance ready, AutoTrac RowSense can be field activated to keep the machine in the right row, regardless of conditions.
