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“It has an impact on the local economy. And agriculture is our backbone. Productive land is taken out of production. There’s less work for farmworkers, seed salesmen, hay balers and everything that goes with it.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

In the middle of the warehouse, workers feed garments and other textiles into balers, which spit out 1,000-pound cubes of trussed-up bras, sleeping bags, jeans, pillows and T-shirts by the hundreds.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2021

He has made himself valuable by learning to handle the farm’s large stock of trucks, manure spreaders, balers and other machinery.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2017

Most of the tractors, balers, combines and backhoes Schnell actually used in the field.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2015

The set was an annual publication, like the World Almanac, and each is full of diagrams of motors, wiring systems, pumps, silos, balers, and so on.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien