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Over the last two decades, the once familiar trailed forage harvester has become a rare sight in the paddock — is that all about to change?

New CLAAS Lexion 8000 and 7000 series combine harvesters have arrived in Australasia, reports Claas Harvest Centre.

Since its launch in 1996, following a decade of development, Lexion combine harvesters from Claas have set the benchmark for high capacity cereal production.

Harvest specialist Claas developed the first effective corn cracker system for its Jaguar forage harvester in the 1980s.

They say that X is an unknown quantity, but not so when you look at the Krone Big X range of forage harvesters.

While many will argue whether the best silage is made by self-propelled harvesters or loader wagons, there's no doubt the latter has become popular over the last decade.

The Claas Lexion 700 combine harvester has won 2016 Machine of the Year at the biennial European trade fair Agritechnica.

In the early days of self-propelled forage harvesters, power seemed to be 350-400hp and they chopped a lot of grass or maize.