The Importance of Zeroing and Leveling Your Concaves
Zeroing and leveling your concaves is an important pre-harvest step to ensure you get the best results from your new Kondex concaves.
How Harvest Residue Impacts Planting Performance
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Spring planting is upon us, and whether you’ve considered it or not, your fall harvest last year has an impact on several planting performance factors.
KX7 Concaves Available for New Holland
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Our KX7 concave product offering now includes 22" rotor New Holland CR combines.
Add Efficiency to Your Corn Harvest with Stalk Claw
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Kondex adds Stalk Claw corn head chopping knives to its aftermarket product offering.
High-Moisture Corn? KX7 Delivers Big Results
Harvesting high-moisture corn can be challenging to balance the right amount of threshing on soft, easily damaged kernels. This KX7 concave configuration delivers big results!
Straw Claw Now Available for New Holland
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Kondex has added Straw Claw blades compatible with New Holland CR and CX Series combines to its straw chopper product family.
New KX7 Small Hole MaxThresh Concave Improves Small Grain Performance
Kondex has released a new KX7 concave box insert option – the small hole MaxThresh box that is 50% more closed off than the standard MaxThresh box.
How to Navigate a Full Spectrum of Harvest Conditions
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From record yields to intense drought, 2021 brought a wide spread of harvest conditions. Learn how KX7 concaves can maximize your harvest.
Coming Soon: Straw Claw for New Holland Combines
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Kondex is expanding its Straw Claw chopper blade product line to include knives compatible with New Holland CR and CX Series combines.
Harvest 2021 Review
A look back at 2021 U.S. harvest conditions and how KX7 high-performance concaves can lead to a more successful harvest next year
Are Inconsistent Straw Chopper Blades Hurting Your Operation?
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The level of consistency from your straw chopper blades has a big impact on your residue management, as well as your blade maintenance. Straw Claw® chopper blades offer consistency on multiple levels to make life easier in the field and in the shop.
Farm Show Season Is Upon Us
Posted in Events, Products, KX7 News
Get a sneak peek at Kondex KX7 concaves and Straw Claw chopper blades at these upcoming farm tradeshows!
Higher Crop Prices Make This the Year to Upgrade Concaves
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With crop prices up to 5-year highs, reducing rotor loss with KX7 concaves results in significant savings for harvesters.
Kondex Launches Online Store for HDD Products
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Kondex Corporation's new online store, kondexparts.com, features its Drill Defender horizontal directional drilling (HDD) product line.
FFA Support Exceeds State Lines
Posted in Industry News, Kondex News, Community, Products, KX7 News
Stetzel Farms, Inc. in Roanoke, Indiana was the winning bidder of the Kondex KX7 concaves donated to the Wisconsin FFA Alumni Association's online auction. Hear from Noah Stetzel about his operation and how he came to win this bid.
Customizing KX7 Concaves for Your Crops
KX7 concaves are delivering a radical improvement over traditional concaves. With its different look and design, we're reviewing how to best configure the concaves to different crops.
Kondex Revolution™ Concaves Receive AE50 Engineering Award
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Kondex receives industry award for innovation.
Factor Performance in Year-End Inspection Decisions
With harvest finished for many and near completion for others, farmers are beginning to inspect their combines to ensure they are ready for next year. Whether you bring your machine to a dealer or do your own inspections, it’s important to evaluate your harvest performance in addition to grading the remaining life of your harvest components. If your harvest could have been better this year, it’s time to evaluate how to best capture improved results for the season ahead
5 Reasons to NOT Compromise with All-Crop Concaves
We’ve all heard the adage, “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” As farmers ourselves, this saying comes to mind whenever someone shares their experience with all-crop concaves.
2019 Harvest Review
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While this time of year may be merry and bright, the rest of the year was certainly a challenge for most U.S. farmers.
You Can’t Control the Weather, But…
2019 was a whirl of mixed weather. It started under water, got incredibly hot, and we’re now finally feeling comfortable outside again… at least for the time being.
Bringing Consistency to the Inconsistent
With many farmers still trying to plant and some beginning harvest, the persistent rainfall across much of the U.S. has poised 2019 to be a year with challenging harvest conditions.
What Sets KX7 Concaves Apart?
At first glance, you can see that KX7 concaves are different. Their size and design are unique, but these are just the beginning in what sets KX7 apart and contributes to its incredible performance. Let's dig deeper into what KX7 has to offer.
Celebrating Knife Day Every Day
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It seems there’s a day of the year for everything, and when we came across Knife Day (formally celebrated August 24th), we couldn’t resist chiming in on the excitement.
Dew You Dare?
Farmers are known to be early risers, but when it comes to harvesting corn or soybeans, even the early birds have traditionally had a limiting factor on getting in their fields.
Prevent the Plugging Predicament
How often have you looked at your combine's concaves after (or mid) harvesting and saw that they were plugged - much like the top view in the image?
What KX7 Settings do I Use?
We are often asked about what settings to use with our KX7 concaves, and we always recommend starting with what’s outlined in your combine’s owner’s manual.
Kondex Straw Claw™ Blade Receives Engineering Award
Posted in Industry News, Kondex News, Awards & Recognition, Products
Kondex continues to drive innovation to the agriculture industry and will soon receive its fourth AE50 Award — this time for its Straw Claw™ Chopper Blades.