Posted by rrlund on June 23, 2010 at 12:09:30 from (216.46.212.144):
In Reply to: Obsolete? posted by rrlund on June 23, 2010 at 07:34:30:
Think about this when you say nothing will replace the combine though Leo. What about bio mass? In 75 years will somebody look at a combine and say "it only took the grain?? What a waste!" Will the grain head be the only part that will survive from the current combine? Will there be something for corn more like a forage harvester that takes the whole plant. Maybe puts the chopped stalks in one truck along side,with ear corn going into another to be shelled at a central location? Possible.
It wasn't the combine that put the final nail in the coffin for the thresher. It was the pickup baler. The combine was fine for the grain farmer,but it left the straw in the field. Livestock farmers didn't want it until the baler came along to get the straw to the barn. By the same token,the row crop cultivator wasn't replaced by another machine. It was pushed out by chemistry. The moldboard plow met it's death by government policy.
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