Net Wrap Guide

A tractor beside a freshly made round hay bale in a stubble field — wrap count is set at the baler before the bale ever leaves the field.

How Many Net Wraps Per Bale? A Crop-by-Crop Guide

By the XES Netting team — bale net-wrap manufacturer · Updated June 4, 2026 · ~8 min read You set the baler to 2.5 wraps on first-cutting grass and never...

A round baler running in a hay field -- timing the net-wrap cycle at the end of the windrow keeps the last bale as tight and well-wrapped as the first.

How to Delay Net Wrap at the End of a Windrow (...

By the XES Netting team — bale net-wrap manufacturer · Updated August 16, 2026 · ~23 min read Read this before you try anything below. Your baler's current operator manual,...

Round bales wrapped in white net wrap with the hexagonal mesh clearly visible -- clean, even wrap tension is what lets the net peel off in one sheet at feeding.

How to Make Net Wrap Peel Off Easier: Roll Widt...

By the XES Netting team — bale net-wrap manufacturer · Updated June 2, 2026 · ~9 min read Quick answer: To make net wrap peel off easier, run one size...

A round bale of fresh alfalfa in a hayfield -- the kind of well-made net-wrapped bale you want to strip cleanly without leaving net behind.

How to Safely Remove Net Wrap From Bales (Dry &...

A producer-grade guide to removing net wrap safely — tools, dry-bale routine, frozen-bale tactics, and the loader-safety rules behind documented bale-handling fatalities.

Round hay bales in a snow-covered field at dusk — the conditions where net wrap freezes onto the bottom of the bale and becomes hardest to remove.

How to Remove Frozen Net Wrap from Round Bales:...

Fifteen field-tested methods for removing frozen net wrap from round bales — ranked from cheapest to most automated, drawn from cow-calf operators across North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Corn shocks standing in a Minnesota field after harvest — the same dry stover that gets baled into round cornstalk bales.

Net Wrap for Cornstalk Bales: What Hay-Wrap Buy...

Standard 48"/51"/64"/67" net wrap works fine on cornstalk bales — what changes is wraps-per-bale, density setting, and storage time. The field-tested guide to baling corn stover for bedding or feed.