Abstract

A “three-stage” harvesting mode, “vine cutting harvesting - digging and drying - pickup and picking,” was proposed to increase the use of peanut vines as animal feed and address the inability of current agronomic and agricultural machinery in China to adapt and the low levels of mechanised peanut production. The prerequisites for integrating agricultural machinery and agronomy into each important production step were provided after studying the general agronomic process of mechanised peanut production under this mode. The field measurements and testing of pickup effects, consistency of stubble height, and plant attributes were conducted. On the variation coefficient of stubble height consistency and their relevance, the effects of ridge height, ridge width, and row spacing variations were examined. The findings demonstrated that differences in ridge height and width had a significant impact, whereas differences in row spacing had no significant impact.