Combines AFX7010 on the way in 07

Actually the trend will be to go smaller. The big machines just cant match fuel efficiency when they have to drag 40 or 50 tons through a wet field. With fuel predicted to be $10 a gallon in 2010 a small machine will pay for itself whereas the monsters cant. Just like the Concorde and SUV have or will disappear

I sure hope you are wrong but I remember in the 70s when fuel was 20cents a gallon. Had sombody said we would be almost 3.00 30 years later would not have beleived it. But you know we seem to have made it work now and we will make it work at 10.00 also the world will need to be fed. Will iron get smallerIJ I dont think so! Will farmers get largerIJ For sure. Will yeilds continue to grow for sure. I dont think we are to far away from 250 -300 bu corn across the feilds. Give me another 100 bu per acre and that will help justfy 10.00 fuel.And if fuel goes up so will soy diesel and ethanol. Just my 2 cents if one beleives the world will come to an end it probably will. GOOD lUCK think positve it will be better for your health.

lol...250-300bu across the fields Depends on where you live also high yields are good but with prices where they are we all might go broke anyway lol

Well most of Mn. seen 200 bu corn or real close to it. I think our county average was like 180 and there is a lot of counties that are way higher than ours. Check out the national corn growers yeild and you will see how high they have gotten 200 -300 and Francis Childs has been over 400. But I guess if people want to look at a glass of water and say its half empty fine I would rather call it half full both are right.Only thing the one way sounds depressing.

Here is the link to the yield contest results from 2005. For me the locations for some of the high yields are very interesting, as many of them are out of what I consider the traditional corn belt. Texas, Oregon, New York, etc. The absolute highest yield was 351.6881 out of Texas.

Cool thanks for the link

300 bushel corn is possible but of course the price per bushel will go down proportionally. The profit per acre will actually be less as drying will be $1 a bushel in few years and fertilizer doubles due to energy. I heard Pioneer is closing a few plants and cutting production in many areas. Seems that corn is becoming increasingly difficult to show a profit on.

They wanted to and recognized the need to, however, one has to remember that both the 7010 and 8010 were hastily developed and borne out of their NH counterparts that were nearly ready to release in 2001. This is all info from a friend of mine who happens to work with CNH combine development. When the merger was approved in 1999, CNH took a hard look at what both companies had in the works for new combines, and NH was far closer with a more feasible global design with the CR_CX machines. Case had this far-fetced concept combine code-named the CBX, and they had the AFX rotor on the table to improve the 2388, but nothing close enough to get them a genuine class 7 and quick. Now the NHs were going to be ready by 2001, but of course Case didn't want the NH dealers to have a new combine without a red version, so the 7010 and 8010 project began in about 2000. During testing, the 8010 was the 62" machine based on the CR970 and what was also going to the be CR960. But then NH cost-cut the class 6 and turned the 960 from a 62" machine into a 52" machine like the CR940. Thus, the 7010 also became the smaller 52" wide chassis. No surprise, just as the CR960 has a tough time competing in class 7, the 7010 found itself unable to pull ahead of the 2388 in capacity and performance (many times the 2388 turned in a far better sample at lower losses). Both my friend and I share the same conviction that the returns system is largely to blame, but, apparently someone higher up in Case thinks they know better. So be it; let them keep disppointing customers and beating their heads against the wall. Thus, the 8010 was the only combine that would outpace a 2388 when they finally had to pull the trigger in 2003 with the CR models and the 8010, and the 8010 still suffers from the same hurried development and lack of adequate testing, very reminiscent of the first Gleaner N-series combines, for those of us who remember those days. Nowadays you can't give one of those away. If the 8010 doesn't straighten up, history may just repeat itself.