No-Till Farmer Senior Editor John Dobberstein shares a free digital demo featuring experts from Estes Performance Concaves. Learn how their patented XPR3 Concave System helps farmers simplify harvest, boost combine performance, and capture more yield from every acre.

The XPR3 concaves are designed to address three critical harvest goals: reducing rotor loss, improving grain quality and increasing overall combine efficiency. In this session, you'll see how this system helps virtually eliminate grain loss, leading to higher yields and fewer volunteer crops next season — ultimately putting more money back in your pocket.

You'll learn how the unique design preserves grain integrity, especially in high-moisture conditions, to deliver better-quality samples that can capture premiums for food-grade and seed crops. Plus, find out how the concaves enable faster ground speeds or reduced fuel consumption, depending on your harvest goals.

Whether you're looking to improve ROI, reduce machine hours, or just see if your combine could be the bottleneck in your yield potential, this digital demo offers valuable insights into optimizing harvest performance with the XPR system.

Here's what you'll learn: 

  • How to eliminate rotor loss and put $10,000 - $30,000 back in your pocket
    • Just 1-3 bushels per acre saved across 2,000 acres = up to $30,000 in recovered grain
    • Less volunteer crop crop = fewer herbicide passes = $3-5/acre in chemical savings
  • How to improve grain quality and maximize premiums up to $0.50/bushel or more
    • Cleaner, intact kernels means high test weights, less dockage, and access to premium markets like food-grade and seed contracts 
    • Even a $0.10-$0.25/bushel premium on 50,000 bushes = $5,000- $12,500 more revenue
  • How to harvest faster — saving time, separator hours and fuel:
    • Increase harvest speed from 3.5 mph to 4.5+ mph = ~40 extra acres a day
    • 2 days sooner = 20 fewer separator hours =up to $15,000 saved in machine depreciation and wear
    • Burn up to 3 gallons less fuel/hour = 450 gallons saved over 150-hour harvest = $1,800 saved
  • Why your combine might be the limiting factor — and how XPRr3 fixes it:
    • Patented design gives 250% more threshing surface and the widest bar spacing in the industry for unbeatable separation.
    • The full concave + Xtreme Separation Grate System is only true full-system upgrade — not just just a part swap
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Estes Performance Concaves will increase the 3 main pillars of a harvest process.
The Xtreme Separation Grates are an industry-leading option. They are the only aftermarket concave company to offer a full Threshing/Separation system optimization kit. These grates will give you constant piercing through the crop mat that any rotor creates, they keep the material in a suspended state, where free grain can still have the ability to escape, opposed to a standard wire or finger grate where the crop mat wraps tight to the tube of the rotor, entrapping those knocked free grains and running them out the back of the machine as rotor loss. 

Farmers often invest in planting or spraying to boost yield, but outdated concaves may be the real limiting factor. The XPR3 system helps your combine capture every bushel your inputs produce — turning yield potential into actual profit.

Upgrading to XPR3 can increase ground speed, reduce fuel use, and improve grain quality — all contributing to a higher ROI. Even a 0.5 mph speed increase could mean 40 extra acres per day, shortening harvest and lowering machine hours — which may also improve your trade-in value.

 Estes focuses solely on one thing: making the best-performing concaves with unmatched support. This is your opportunity to unlock your combine’s full potential.

This product demo is made possible with the support of Estes Performance Concaves.


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Meet the Speakers

Todd Dale
Estes Perfomance Concaves Sales and Support

Todd Dale brings a lifetime of hands-on farming experience to his role at Estes Performance Concaves. He continues to farm on his family’s operation while applying his technical expertise at Estes. Prior to joining the team, Todd spent 11 years working for a John Deere dealership in northwest Ohio, where he built a strong foundation in equipment performance and customer support.


Shawn Feikema

Shawn Feikema
No-Till & Strip-Till Farmer— Feikema Farms

Shawn Feikema is a highly respected no-till/strip-till farmer based in southwest Minnesota. A customer of Estes Performance Concaves since 2018, Shawn manages a diverse crop portfolio that includes high-moisture crops requiring precision and attention to detail. Known for his high-level management and agronomic excellence, he brings valuable insights from the field.