Combines bushels harvested day

My personal highest was this last fall on a Saturday, pulled into a 78 acre field at 7 AM, left at 1 AM, averaged ~150 bpa, so in the neighborhood of 12,000 bushels in 18 hours, not too bad for a part-timer huhIJ You should have seen the wagons coming in and out of the field, it was a constant stream. No grain cart, no semis in the field. All hopper wagons to wet bin and then loaded on local co-op semis.

A better way to compare capacity is to compare bushels per hour.My combine's capacity of the clean gran elevating system is about 2475 bu. per hour. So an 80 acre field could theoretically be done in 4.84 hours. Practiacally speaking, consideing doing the end rows, taking time to walk around a bit and kick the tires once or twice, you are looking at 6 hours. Which is easily during daylight hours.lots of assumptions like; grain cart unloading on the go, a place to go with large volume of grain, plenty of trucks etc.A lot depends on everything being coordinatedIt is easy to compare bushels per hour even without a yield monitor.I have found that with the newer hi capacity machines the elevating system is a limiting factor.I never thought I would see the day when the grain tank unloadng auger would have to runbetween 25 and 30% of the time.Wow! it's amazing!

My Dad harvested a 11000 bushels in 36 straight hours with the 55 John Deere in the photographs.

About 4 years ago dad was in a bad car crash right when corn harvest started. He is fine now. A few neighbors came over and took off 120 acres of 140 bu corn in about 2 1_2 hours. If I remember right, there were 4 large carts, a 9600 with a 12 row, 2 7720 with 8 row, and a 8820 with a 6 row. Alot of trucks showed up, ranging from singles, and tandems, and semi. Two came with shreaders, a 20 and a 30 foot. The local elevator shut off all other corn for the short time it took to haul it in. Just shows what the small farm communtie is like.

We harvested 33,000 bushels of corn in a day with 2 9600's(8 row heads),2 carts, and 3 semis.

In New Holland's Power Manger magazine there was this guy harvested 21,000 bushels or 21 semi loads of corn in one day and he was at home by 7 o'clock that night. He had a New Holland TR97 with an eight row head. He had trouble keeping the semi's coming and that was with ONE combine.

A friend of mine let me and two other guys shell 70 acres of corn which was about 11,000 bushels one night. We pulled into the field at 4 p.m and pulled out at 2 a.m that si probably the most we shelled in a day. The agrileader yield monitor shows 1200 bushels an hour shelling 180 - 190 bpa corn running 4.5 to 4.7 mph. So figure that one