Harvest Sunflowers With Your Corn Head

Harvest sunflowers with your corn head COMBINES Accessories 15-4-27 Now, thanks to a low-cost conversion kit from Golden Plains Ag Tech, Colby, Kan., you can harvest sunflowers with a standard corn head. Developed in France, where it's been successfully marketed for several years, the CornSol conversion kit takes only about 30 minutes per row to install. Designed to harvest sunflowers planted in the same row width as your corn head, it has no moving parts to wear or replace. To install, you remove the snouts, then replace the existing deck plates with CornSol deck plates. You then adjust the gathering chains and replace the snouts. The attachment cuts off the sunflower head and about 6 in. of stalk. Sells for right at $250 per row and is available to fit Deere, IH and most New Holland corn heads. Custom-made kits to fit other makes available on special order. Field tests are being conducted to evaluate the CornSol kit's ability to harvest grain sorghum (milo). For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Golden Plains Ag Tech, 650 E. Pine St., P.O. Box 307, Colby, Kan. 67701 (ph 1 800 255-8280, or 913 462-6753).

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