ASABE Seeks Input on Baling Twine Standard

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated a project to revise ANSI/ASAE S315.4, Agricultural Baling Twine for Automatic Balers. The standard provides uniform polyolefin and sisal agricultural baler twine specifications to ensure satisfactory performance in round and square balers as well as adequate durability in normal storage and handling of baled forage and biomass materials.

The standard is being revised to add a larger packaging size category for large square baler twine to provide an alternative for greater twine-carrying capability and re-wording of the description for knotters on a large square baler.

The committee would like additional input from twine producers, large square baler manufacturers, and users of agricultural baler twine. Anyone interested in providing input on this revision is asked to contact Scott Cedarquist by email at cedarq@asabe.org. S