baler
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20 sectionsContents
- History
- Round baler
- Transport, handling, and feeding
- Short-haul transport and on-field handling
- Long-haul transport
- Feeding
- Silage or haylage
- Large square baler
- Large square bale handling and transport
- Small square baler
- Small square bale handling and transport
- Mechanical small square bale handling
- Square/wire bale history
- Hay presses, wire balers
- Storage methods
- Usage once in the barn
- Industrial balers
- See also
- References
- External links
right|thumb|290px|A Claas large round baler thumb|290px|Baling hay
A baler, or hay baler, is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic (e.g. the nutritional) value of the plants bundled. Different types of balers are commonly used, each producing a different type of balerectangular or cylindrical, of various sizes, bound with twine, strapping, netting, or wire.