VIDEO: Setting up combines to limit harvest loss

Peer-to-peer online network helps keep harvest loss in check

Published: February 1, 2024

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‘We found a problem, now how do we fix it?’ This was a common question drop-pan inventor Trevor Scherman heard when producers discovered they were seeing too much harvest loss. He heard it enough that it gave him an idea for a new venture.

With all of the online information floating around the internet – which may not always be reliable or suited to crop conditions – Sherman created Combinesettings.com, a place where producers can see how to tweak their combine settings to get more crop in the bin.

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Greg Berg

Greg Berg

Digital Editor

Greg Berg was born and raised in the potash capital of the world of Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Greg helped out on the family homestead farm near Stockholm, Sask., for a number of years in his youth. Greg graduated from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 2011 and joined Glacier FarmMedia in 2014. He specializes in video production and is a songwriter in his spare time.

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