tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post1871310925172831053..comments2024-03-27T03:19:09.202-04:00Comments on HyMark High Spots: Your Combine Is A Weed Seed SpreaderEd Winklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299533401041542458noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post-6801255041811790992014-10-14T06:30:13.098-04:002014-10-14T06:30:13.098-04:00You have to spread the volume past the width of th...You have to spread the volume past the width of the header to be spreading well enough to make it a good broadcast. It usually falls far short of the cut row. To me, good spreading always has a tiny bit of overlap.<br /><br />I have not seen seed separation commercially. That would be a giant seed cleaner larger than the combine sorting seeds from material.<br /><br />EdEd Winklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299533401041542458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post-17062006406153287322014-10-14T04:09:25.381-04:002014-10-14T04:09:25.381-04:00"Combines are so large that they cannot mecha..."Combines are so large that they cannot mechanically spread residue past the width of the headers"<br />Why would you want the combine to spread residue on more width than what they combine? Shouldn't everything from the combined rows go back to the same rows, so there is no loss of residue and nutrients?<br /><br />The weed seeds is a different problem, but I thought some combines were already sorting out weed seeds to keep them in a separate container for later disposal. This is probably what should be encouraged, although for the sake of me, I can't fathom how mechanical engineers can sort out all the seeds of different sizes of different weeds without seriously slowing down harvesting...Chimelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601975288198239103noreply@blogger.com