Straw Management

1. Tractor-driven round baler

This type of baler collect straw and release each of round bale in the field, requiring a vehicle to transport the bales from the field to the gathering place, such as the field edge. This baler cannot operate in wet fields as the pneumatic tires are easily stuck in the mud, and the released bales on the field will be stuck in mud, reducing straw quality.

Round baler: Inside the compacting chamber, there are rollers that rotate continuously to compress the straw into cylindrical bales. The machine pauses intermittently during operation to tie the bales and eject them.

2. Square Baler

This type of baler continuously compresses straw in the compacting chamber and ejects the formed square bales without stopping.

3. Popular straw balers in Vietnam

Technical specifications of two popular rice straw balers in Vietnam