Project Funder: GRDC

Project Lead: Primary Sales Australia Pty Ltd
Project Code: PRS2005-001SAX
Project Duration: 2020-2025

Project Aim/Overview

Grain losses during harvesting equate to significant lost income for growers across Australia every year.

To support growers in their efforts to reduce harvest losses and improve operations at harvest time, the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has funded a multi-year national project ‘Optimising harvest losses, efficiency, and weed seed control; and capacity building for future delivery’ otherwise known as the Harvester Set-Up Project of which the Facey Group coordinates the Western Region workshops.

Workshops are designed to enable Australian grain growers, contract harvesters and machinery dealers to maximise harvest efficiency by minimising harvest losses, reducing grain damage, managing weed seeds, and returning more profit per hectare through the economic optimisation of harvester set-up including harvest weed seed control. The presenters within the workshop are Peter Broley (Primary Sales Australia), Ben White (Kondinin Group), Brett Aspher (Independent), Kassie van der Westerhuizan (Harvest Specialist), Peter Newman (Planfarm) and Murray Skayman (Harvest Specialist).

Workshop Content

• Understanding the impact of harvest loss, how to measure it, how to change your harvester to reduce  losses, grain storage.
• HWSC latest information, sharing how to set-up for effective HWSC using mills systems (iHSD, Seed Terminator, SCU) chaff decks & chaff lining.
• Reducing the risk of harvester fires.
• Improving harvester capacity and efficiency.
• Managing Harvest operations, productivity, and economics