Gearclash - 10/19/2026 06:15

Usually I recommend a New Holland 560 Specialty Crop for stalks. Best bales you will get out of a 5x6 baler and reliable performance.

But if you are going to make windrows with a stalk shredder I think you might be better off with a Vermeer that has the power windguard. Shredded stalks dumped straight in a windrow feed hard.

If you have green stalks you would be better off with a plain stalk shredder and come back later with a rake to make the windrow.

I wouldn't use twine ever.

Don't get a non Specialty Crop if you go New Holland. You will need the pickup that only the SC has. The Specialty Crop Plus has a troublesome sledge follower roll arrangement that should be changed if you find a deal on one.