On a July day, ahead of the 2025 growing season, a team from Bushel Plus (soon to be BranValt) met up in the shop at EMILI’s Innovation Farms Centre to install a prototype of a split frame concave on a John Deere X9 combine.
They wanted to see how the prototype operated in real-world conditions throughout the growing season, to validate its ability to make crop transitions faster and easier, ultimately saving time and money for the farmer.
The season was a success, and the X9 Split Frame MAD Concave is now commercially available for the 2026 harvest season. Farmers interested in using the system to optimize threshing and separation during their next harvest can access it through Bushel Plus’s dealer networks in 45 different countries.
Located on a 5,500 acre grain and oilseed farm, EMILI’s Innovation Farms Grosse Isle site provided an ideal setting for Entz and his team to demonstrate the concave’s ability to provide precise configurations and rapid adjustments while ensuring minimal grain damage.
Data from John Deere Operations Centre during wheat, canola, oat, and soybean harvest, as well as from the Bushel Plus SmartPan System™ being demonstrated at EMILI’s Innovation Farms during the same season, provided important feedback.
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