Author: Robert "Bobby" Grisso, Extension Engineer, Biological Systems Engineering; Ray Smith, Forage Specialist, Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech; and John Cundiff, Professor, Biological Systems Engineering; Virginia Tech
Publication Number 442-454 , March 2002
Figure 1. Leaf loss during baler operation. Accumulation of data for several large round balers over a range of hay moisture contents in fields of mixed alfalfa, crested wheatgrass and bromegrass. Data source: Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute.
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