Attached to New Holland’s CR10 at the National Farm Machinery Show was one of the brand’s new 9200 Series corn heads.
The 9200s come in four configurations: eight-row, 12-row, 16-row and 18-row, with spacings ranging between 20, 22 and 30 inches.
“The biggest thing about the 9200 Series head is it helps us unlock the total capacity of our next-gen combines,” says J. Cole Sanford, cash crop specialist with New Holland. “We need high-capacity front equipment to get the high capacity out of the base unit.”
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To achieve that improved productivity at the front, New Holland product developers aimed to get corn from the row unit into the auger and into the combine at a faster rate. They did this by enlarging the auger diameter on the header to 30 inches on the 12- and 16-row models.
“This unlocks a lot of capacity in ground speed that we needed to feed the monster that is behind us,” Sanford said during a video interview at the show, standing beside the brand’s CR10 combine.
In previous designs, only one deck plate was adjustable on New Holland’s corn heads. With the new 9200 Series corn heads, both deck plates are adjustable and are centred above the stalk row. This makes for cleaner picking, reduced grain loss and faster throughput.
New Holland’s 9200 Series corn heads are also compatible with its CR780, CR790, CR890, CR990 and CR11 combines.
