Silly Season
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Wrapped round bales make life easier during feeding out, but they present the problem of plastic waste needing to be separated from net wrap.
Grassland and cultivation specialist Pottinger claims a first for its new range of round balers, achieving chop quality usually associated with loader wagons.
New Holland clearly knows how to produce variable chamber balers: it has at least 235,000 machines worldwide.
It used to be said 'roller balers for grass and belt balers for straw', but advances in design over the last decade mean that either seems capable of dealing with all crops.
The new L Series Balers from John Deere are designed to maximise performance, increase uptime, and lower the overall cost of operation.
Two new L Series square balers - the L330 and the L340 - will improve efficiency on farm, says machinery maker John Deere.
FORTY YEARS of making its Roll-Belt balers, and sales of 235,000 machines, is prompting manufacturer New Holland to affix a ’40-year’ decal to a new variant of this globally popular machine, the company says.

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