2026 John Deere Ag X9 1000 

2026 John Deere Ag X9 1000

As if up to 7,200 bushels per hour weren't enough.

It started with sheer brawn, when we gave the legendary X9 Combine the muscle to deliver up to 7,200 bushels (253,721 liters) per hour in high-yielding corn1. A combine that raised harvesting capacity by an average of 45% — while using 20% less fuel2. We gave it vision to see ahead and automatically adjust speed to crop volume. And we made combine settings as easy as one, two, three.

What else could we do? Well, turns out a lot. We added more harvesting smarts. We gave it hands-free automatic turning. We made it easy to share real-time grain weights with your entire harvest team and we automated the unloading process. We even found time to add a better instructional seat. All the power. All the productivity. All the comfort. Now that's taking things to the X level.

Automation

Predictive Ground Speed Automation

Increase productivity by up to 20% with Predictive Ground Speed Automation1, included in the optional Ultimate Technology Package. Using forward, cab-mounted cameras, the X9 constantly measures crop height and volume — while pre-harvest satellite field images generate a predictive field map. The combine takes this data and automatically adjusts ground speed BEFORE entering changing crop areas. Plus, enhanced processing power now makes it possible to detect green crop mass in mature crops, so the combine can adjust threshing power to more efficiently process tougher young plants.

Harvest Settings Automation

Harvest Settings Automation — included in the Premium and Ultimate Technology Packages — makes it easy to set the specific outcomes you expect. Using your G5Plus Display, simply set acceptable limits for grain loss, foreign material, and broken grain. Once set, the combine automatically adjusts itself to deliver the performance you want. No more manually adjusting rotor speed, fan speed, and concave, chaffer, and sieve clearances. And now, Harvest Settings Automation supports even more crop types, including lentils, peas, rye, triticale, oats, and even sunflowers.

AutoTrac™ Turn Automation with Header Raise/Lower

More and more operators are discovering the hands-free confidence AutoTrac Turn Automation (ATTA) gives them during in-crop turns. But they still had to remember to raise and lower the header. Not anymore. We've added the capability to automatically raise and lower your header—at the right time and the right place. That's one less task to worry about, so you can concentrate on more important things.

Auto Unload

There's a lot to focus on during harvest, especially when you're dealing with multiple machines and tight harvesting windows. Auto Unload uses an auger-mounted camera to constantly detect the grain fill level inside your moving cart. As it detects the fill, it automatically sends nudge commands to the tractor to move the grain cart forward and backward to evenly fill.

Auto Unload is available as a factory install on new John Deere S7 and X9 Combines or as a precision upgrade on select older S700, S7, and X9 Combines.

JDLink™ Boost

Stay connected when it matters most. JDLink Boost helps strengthen your JDLink Modem2 to keep you connected in areas with heavy canopies and limited mobile coverage. It is designed to provide continuous machine and field monitoring to support timely, informed decisions during harvest. You can send guidance lines, prescriptions, plans, and work records to your in-cab display, and wirelessly move data between the machine and John Deere Operations Center™. The system also improves diagnostics and troubleshooting with remote access.

Capacity

Dual separator

Two 24-inch (60.96-centimeters) rotors with an increased threshing area of 45% and separating area of 80%3 for better threshing and separating in high-volume crops.

Cleaning shoe

36%3 more cleaning area to effectively put clean grain in the tank in the toughest harvesting conditions.

Bigger on the inside

Even with 45% more threshing area3, and 80% more separating area3, the outside dimensions are about the same as the S7 900, for tight turns and narrow transport.

Efficiency

A more efficient engine

A John Deere JD14 13.6L engine delivers up to a 45% increase in harvesting capacity, while only needing 11% more horsepower than an S7 900.3 A high-pressure common rail system more efficiently injects fuel into the engine to help optimize performance and support potential fuel savings.

Seamless speed control

30%3 more torque to handle larger loads with a smooth power increase with the new ProDrive™ XL transmission.

Belt-drive system

Our simplified belt-drive system uses larger pulleys and longer belts to improve the handoff of power and belt wear-life.3

20% less fuel4

It's not just the engine that delivers lower fuel costs, it's every aspect of the design. The belts, transmission, residue system, rotors, and lower RPM all play a role in saving you money on fuel.

Improved residue management

New system spreads up to 50-feet (15.24-meters) wide; the double-decker design provides better air flow for even distribution with less power consumption.5

Features may include:

Get more during your rice harvest with the X9 rice package

Overview

The X9 combine has been optimized to handle the extreme wear conditions a rice harvest can bring about. By utilizing the most advanced coatings and wear resistant materials, the X9 combine is built to last longer and do more.

Benefits

• Lower cost of ownership
• Extended wear life in extreme conditions
• Lower potential down time
• Up to 65 percent more capacity than an S7 900 combine
• Harvest up to 3,200 bushels/hour

Additional details

• Only available in X9 1000
• Requires the combination of the following order codes
  • Code 4324 – Extreme Wear Large Wire Concaves or Code 4365 - Extended Wear Round Bar Concaves
  • Code 5231 – Extreme Wear Grain Handling System
  • Code 4890 – X Series Dual Separator (XDS) Extreme Wear
  • Code 5437 – 28.5 ft (8.7M) Power Folding Unloading Auger
  • Code 5803 – Standard material flow
  • Code 5813 – Extreme wear Fine Cut chopping device
  • Code 5827 – Extreme wear Premium PowerCast™ spreading device
• Feederhouse
  • Stainless steel feederhouse floor
  • Deflector shield to protect solenoid connections on feederhouse life cylinders
  • Protective sheathings on exposed hydraulic hoses
• Feed accelerator
  • Coated chevron nose
  • Stainless steel feed ramp plate
  • Coated hardware
• Dual separator
  • Hard faced rotor feed flights
  • Stainless steel rail liners
  • Z-bars made from special wear resistant material
  • Coated rotor tines
  • Special coated and designed rice elements
  • Stainless steel top covers
  • Extra coated rice threshing elements
  • Stainless steel discharge grate floor
• Grain handling
  • Wear resistant tailings auger
  • Hardfaced flighting clean grain auger
  • Coated elevator boat
  • Coated elevator top cap and transition housing
  • Wear resistant material with hard facing on the loading auger
  • Stronger gears on loading auger gear box
  • Wear resistant grain tank cross augers
  • Wear resistant material in auger trough
  • Hard facing on first and last auger flightings in unload auger
• Residue management
  • Stainless steel floors
  • Wear resistant chopper knives and bushings

 

Lower your harvesting costs, raise your expectations

The X Series helps reduce fuel costs by 20 percent per bushel harvested. Plus, you can count on an improved grain tank sample and better residue spread, which adds up over a harvest season. With this improved design, you can harvest more acres per day with improved fuel consumption.

• 20 percent better fuel efficiency per bushel harvested - Run 14 hours without stopping for fuel and enjoy fuel savings of up to 20 percent or more as measured in gallons per bushel. An updated John Deere engine, belt drive system, and ProDrive™ XL transmission make it possible. The JD14 (13.6 L, 830-cu in.) engine runs at 1900 rpm during harvest and is partnered with an updated driveline layout that reduces parasitic loss to improve fuel economy. The ProDrive XL transmission leverages two efficient motors to improve power transfer at typical harvesting speeds, and when moving to the next field you can travel up to 40 km/h (25 mph) to get back to harvesting.
   
• 36 percent larger cleaning shoe more efficiently cleans high-yielding and high-foreign-matter crops with less loss and a better grain tank sample - Conditions may change throughout the day but your grain quality won’t. The massive 7-m2 (75-sq ft) Dyna-Flo™ XL cleaning shoe delivers 36 percent more cleaning area to effectively handle thin dry crop, thick wet crop, and everything in between.
   
• Uniform residue spread up to 15.2 m (50 ft) with the ability to properly size residue from the cab - Size the chaff and spread it where you want it to speed decomposition and improve soil warming – a feature you’ll really appreciate next year in the spring.

More bushels per hour, more acres per day

If you ever wished you could harvest a few more acres per day, the X Series Combines is the right choice for you. More capacity – up to a 70 percent increase on the X9 1100 – means you can cover a lot more ground with improved grain quality and less grain loss.

• Harvest up to 7200 bu per hour in high-yielding corn and 30 acres per hour in wheat – The X Series dual separator with 45 percent more threshing area and 80 percent more separating area than previous models improve performance in the toughest conditions.
   
• Reduce losses and improve grain tank quality – With 36 percent more cleaning area and 85 percent more air flow than previous models, the Dyna-Flo™ XL cleaning shoe was built to handle the increased capacity from the rotors. The industry’s largest cleaning shoe keeps loss levels low and grain quality high; you’ll really appreciate the difference in tough wheat, canola, and high-moisture corn.

John Deere X9 1100 vs. CLAAS® 8800 – Independent PAMI benchmarking

Combine capacity, time, and money - what are they worth to you? In late September and early October of 2020, John Deere contracted PAMI (Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute) to conduct independent benchmarking of the John Deere X9 1100 Combine versus the CLAAS 8800 Combine. PAMI tested these combines in tough wheat and canola conditions in Western Canada, and what they found was impressive. Read the full PAMI reports at https://pami.ca/annual-reports.

Capacity

In 102 bu/acre wheat, PAMI found the X9 1100 Combine had a 28 percent capacity advantage over the CLAAS 8800 at a 1 percent total loss threshold (figure 10 of the PAMI report). Considering a farm with 8,000 acres of wheat, here is a breakdown of how a John Deere X9 Combine would compare to a CLAAS 8800 when harvesting wheat at 1 percent loss:

Time and money

With a John Deere X9 Combine, you can simply harvest more acres in less time and with less grain loss. In fact, as you can calculate from the PAMI testing results, the X9 Combine can save you 6.3 total harvest days when compared to the CLAAS 8800 in a two-machine harvest scenario. This is essentially a week of time saved in the field with your combines. A lot can happen in one week, including rain storms that reduce your wheat’s test weight or snow storms that can prolong your harvest and make for very difficult harvesting conditions in the future. An X9 combine helps you manage this risk by enabling a faster and cost-saving wheat harvest, so you can get into other crops such as canola and pulses much earlier.

In addition to getting your crop out of the field faster, an X9 Combine also directly saves you money by requiring less time to do the same amount of work. The X9 can save you $0.66 per acre in operator time and $5.53 per acre in depreciation savings, for a total savings of up to $6.19 per acre when running at 1 percent loss.

Everything discussed until this point has been at a 1 percent loss rate. Let’s say storms are in the forecast and you need to get your wheat crop off the field as fast as possible. An X9 Combine is up to that task as well. When PAMI tested both machines to a power limit condition (figure 10 of the PAMI wheat report), here’s what they found:

When PAMI tested the machines in canola, both machines performed well in tough conditions. Each machine reached a total throughput of 63 tonnes/hr or 1,152 bu/hr at a 3 percent loss rate. However, the X9 1100 used 18 percent less fuel per bushel harvested than the CLAAS 8800 in these tests. When you consider this on a farm with 4,000 acres of canola, you’d save over 1,227 gal. of fuel or $0.79 per acre. PAMI also mentions that machine noise and distress were limiting factors on how hard the machines could be pushed in these conditions, and the X9 1100 could be ran at a higher throughput (see figure 10 of the PAMI canola report). This again speaks to the performance of X9 Combines when needing to harvest in the toughest conditions.

Summary

More acres in less time and with less cost is what the independent PAMI benchmarking results prove you get when you purchase a John Deere X9 Combine. Reach out to your John Deere dealer to learn more about how the X9 Combine can help you be more successful in your operation.

Assumptions

The examples provided here are based on the yields and conditions where the independent PAMI benchmarking took place. Actual values will vary depending on your conditions, yields, machine count, and operational efficiencies. Here is a summary of the values used:

• All $ amounts are in U.S. dollars
• 8,000 acres of wheat
• 102 bu/acre for wheat yield
• $5.90 per bushel for wheat
• 4000 acres of canola
• 72 bu/acre for canola yield
• $11.60 canola per bushel
• $2.10 per gallon for diesel
• Machine depreciation and total fleet depreciation are based on a $250 per engine hour reduction in value. It should be noted that different rates may be experienced in the market. This rate is for this example only.
• 0.8 field efficiency factor
• One harvest day assumes a 14 engine hour day with a 0.7 separator hour-to-engine hour ratio

CLAAS is a trademark of CLAAS KGaA mbH.

All-day performance in all crops and conditions with the X9 Combine

You want the ability to be more productive early in the morning when the crop is tougher and later in the evening as the dew settles. With the X Series, no matter what condition your fields are in, it keeps performing like it’s the middle of the day. More importantly, the combine stretches the length of the harvest window, allowing you to get in the fields sooner and stay later than before, without risking a loss in productivity or grain quality.

• More productivity in the early morning and late afternoon – The feederhouse is 23 percent wider than previous models, allowing it to handle as much as 100 tons/hr of wheat or 253,721.3 L (7200 bu) per hour of high-yielding corn. Increased rotor threshing and separation area improves your ability to harvest in tough conditions. Increased cleaning shoe area improves your grain tank sample, the 23 percent wider residue system can effortlessly chop and spread residue. The result is an X9 Combine that can handle early-morning’s thick wet crop or the highest-yielding parts of your field with less plugging.
   
• Automated setting adjustments with Combine Advisor™ package – Crop conditions change dramatically throughout the day and from field to field, which means you can spend time changing combine settings or you can run an X Series Combine that makes the adjustments for you. Combine Advisor adjusts all five harvesting settings as conditions change, reducing grain loss and improving quality. It automatically compensates for changing conditions like wet straw and dewy conditions, even if you can’t see them.
   
• Faster crop changeover with improved rotor/fast rpm shift, lighter concaves, and no-tools-required grain tank cleanout – Spend more time harvesting and less time prepping. The rotor and fast gear shift location has moved next to the cab door entrance for quick shifting when changing to different crops. The half-width concaves are lighter, making them easier to handle and remove. Each of the six concaves weigh less than 14 kg (31 lb), and drop-down cradles make it easy to slide the concaves into position. No tools are required to clean out the grain tank, making it easier to quickly remove crop before heading to the next field.

John Deere Connected Support™ prevents downtime and efficiently resolves issues with revolutionary technology-based solutions

When you buy John Deere equipment, you expect reliability. You also know that problems can happen, and a product is only as good as the support behind it. That’s why John Deere equipment is prepared with technology that senses potential issues and can alert you and your dealer promptly—in the cab or anywhere you are.

John Deere Connected Support is a revolutionary change to support that leverages technology and the connectivity of JDLink™ telematics to prevent downtime and resolve problems faster. These tools decrease downtime by an average of 20 percent, enabling faster responses to unexpected problems and reducing technician trips to your machine. For some issues, unplanned downtime can even be prevented altogether through prediction of the issue.

With your permission, John Deere Connected Support:

• Keeps you running by monitoring machine health and promptly alerting you and your dealer of issues
• Saves time by remotely viewing in-cab displays, reducing trips to the machine
• Reduces or even eliminates technician trips to a machine through remote diagnostic and remote software reprogramming capabilities
• Connects experts with the information needed to respond to downtime faster and prevent it altogether