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Description: After the hay has dried sufficiently, the swaths are consolidated into windrows to fit the pickup of a chopper or baler (e.g., NAL #3424, #3470, and #3471). For dry hay, to optimize retention of the nutrient rich leaves on the stems, the hay is windrowed before it has completed drying. NAL #4863 through #4867 illustrate a variety of windrowers. By contrast, this mower windrower and that in NAL #4862 funnel the newly cut hay into a windrow as it exits the implement. Although this reduces the number of passes required to harvest the forage, because hay in this windrow is thicker than hay in a swath, the forage requires more drying time thereby increasing the risk of damage from precipitation.

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