Yield monitoring is one of the most important operations for efficient management of agricultural fields. One of the common methods used to monitor hay yield variability is to monitor the hay mass flow rate inside the baler chamber during hay baling process.Therefore, this study on a 10 ha field was conducted to investigate the performance of a hay mass flow monitoring system mounted on a large...

The progressive technical development of agriculture and the desire to increase efficiency quality agrotechnical processes related soil cultivation forces use more complex automation robotisation in agricultural technology. article introduces reader modern control systems for automatic hoeing tools presents a system baler-wrapper, project which (POIR.04.01.04-00-0067/18) is implemented by autho...

The cost of harvesting is one of the constraints in improving biofuel economics. Adjusting the ground speed of harvesting machines to maximize their throughput rate in relation to yield level is one of the ways to reduce harvesting cost. To control the ground speed of a baler, a real-time sensor that can predict the swathed-biomass yield in front of the baler would be an invaluable tool. It was...

trative Social Sciences and Economics, Koç University, Istanbul (e-mail: [email protected]). Robyn A. LeBoeuf is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors thank Lyle Brenner for helpful comments on a previous draft of this article. Dilip Soman served as associate editor for this article. BALER B...

an extended octagonal ring (eor) transducer was designed and developed to measure forces inside the compression chamber of a large square baler in different directions. the transducer was calibrated by applying forces in three directions simultaneously and independently. the sensor revealed excellent linearity along with small cross sensitivities. horizontal and vertical primary sensitivities o...

Corn stover has great potential as a biomass feedstock, but harvest and storage of this material is challenged by weather conditions at harvest; material moisture; and equipment shortcomings. Field drying characteristics, harvest efficiency and rate, product bulk density, and storage characteristics were quantified for stover harvested and stored in wet or dry form. Only in one case did stover ...