Wyffels Hybrids is getting ready for harvest before corn growers even finish planting. The company is in the process of installing new drying and packaging equipment in its Atkinson, Illinois, production facility, to be able to handle the company’s growth and continue to provide growers with the highest quality seed corn.
New drying equipment includes larger fans, bigger motors and more powerful burners. The improvements increase air flow, drying more corn in the same amount of time.
New packaging equipment includes a state-of-the-art line with a high-capacity robotic bagger and palletizer. The new equipment weighs, moves, prints, labels, sews and fills bags, and wraps pallets. The mechanization will increase the number of bags per minute that are processed by nearly 40 percent.
