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Bale wrapper

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Bale wrapper

Machines that wrap hay bales in plastic have done away with the need for hay barns or covered stacks. This bale wrapper is baling hay on a South Canterbury farm in the summer of 2008.

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James Watson, Farm mechanisation – Vehicles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18402/bale-wrapper (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by James Watson, published 1 March 2009.