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The MacDon Difference

Robert Lowers of Easton, Illinois shining on the field and realized it surprised at how well the MacDon has been farming for as long was midnight. The header was still was able to pick up the crop and as he can remember. His father, feeding evenly, he had not slowed pull in the beans and they ended up Tom Lowers, started from scratch down any, and he was still running exceeding his expectations. when he began farming in the early just as easily as he had earlier that 1970s. Robert and his brother, Ryan, evening. Throughout the years, Robert has eventually took over becoming R been pleased with his MacDon and & R Lowers Farm after their father Since then, there have been many cannot imagine running any other passed away. instances where Robert has been brand each harvest. He is also glad able to start harvesting earlier in the to have been a Central Illinois Ag In 2010, the Lowers began to hear day and end later at night. He likes customer for so long and to have about draper heads and the benefits that he is not as limited to a certain John Coers as his trusted salesman. to owning one. At the time, their window of time each day when When Robert’s father found out that father had a 2388 combine and a cutting beans, as he had been in the he had cancer and only a month to conventional flex header, and they past. “I have been able to cut a lot of live in October of 2013, John reached decided in 2012 to trade for a 7120 tough beans that my conventional out to him immediately and asked if combine and a 30-foot 2162 MacDon header would have never been able he and Ryan needed any harvest help. draper head. to do,” says Robert. He ended up sending them a second Robert says he noticed how the After running the 2162 for several harvest that year, which meant a lot MacDon cut beans better than their years and being pleased with the to the Lowers family and is a gesture previous head right off the bat, and results, Robert decided to upgrade that they won’t soon forget. “John he was impressed with the lack of and trade for a MacDon FD75 in has been good to us,” says Robert. shatter and head loss he saw. “After 2018. “He is a honest guy and we are lucky running a MacDon, we did not to get to work with him.” even consider another brand,” says With the FD75, he has noticed a Robert. “It did an amazing job.” difference in yield when working in less than desirable conditions. Last combine and head to run to finish up Robert remembers the first day he year, he had a field under water at ran the MacDon. His salesman, three different times throughout John Coers, was out helping him set the year. Although the beans had a it up and teaching him how to run lot of pods on them, they were only it and it was about 6:00 p.m. when a foot tall and he was not expecting he got started cutting beans on his own. Before he knew it, he saw dew that field to make over 10 bushels an acre that fall. However, he was quite Robert Lowers 13 · Central Illinois Ag · www.centralilag.com

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