What Size Net Wrap Fits a John Deere 567? What the Manual Actually Says

By the XES Netting team — bale net-wrap manufacturer · Updated September 4, 2026 · ~15 min read

Identify the exact machine before comparing net wrap

"567" names a family, not a configuration. The same operator's manual covers the 467, the 467 Silage Special and the 567 together, and it lists Regular, MEGATOOTH™ and MegaWide pickups as separate setups with their own wheel-spindle positions. Net wrap itself is an attachment on this generation — John Deere's own wording throughout the net wrap pages is "if equipped." Plenty of 567s left the factory twine-only and were converted later, and a converted machine may not carry the same hardware as a factory net baler.

Before you compare a single roll, write down four things:

1. Complete model designation and full PIN/serial number from the data plate. This is what a dealer needs to pull the correct parts book and the correct manual edition for your build year.
2. Pickup type — Regular, MEGATOOTH™ or MegaWide. It changes more setup pages than most owners expect.
3. Whether net wrap hardware is actually installed, and whether it is the base net wrap attachment or a surface-wrap (CoverEdge-style) unit. These are not the same hardware and they do not take the same material.
4. The width and core dimensions printed on the roll currently in the machine, if there is one. A roll that has been running well on your specific baler is stronger evidence than any online table, including this one.

If you are working on an older Deere that predates this family, the setup differences are real and documented — see our guide to net wrap on older balers. For the later machine that replaced this one, see what size net wrap fits a John Deere 569.

Operators on AgTalk make the generational point bluntly when someone tries to move parts between a 566 and a 567:

"566 net wrap system is quite a bit different than 567 and up."

— sandhillsam, NW Oklahoma · AgTalk thread 1159224

"FYI the 566 monitor you borrowed will run the twine but will not run the net. They changed the twine system between the 566 and 567."

— gfd_703 · AgTalk thread 1157461

Treat "it came off a Deere round baler" as insufficient. The break between the 66-series and the 67-series is exactly where net wrap behaviour changes.

What the official 567 manual actually specifies — and what it doesn't

John Deere publishes the operator's manual for this family free at manuals.deere.com. Section 25 is titled "Preparing Baler for Net Wrap." Its "Selecting Net Wrap Material" page is short enough to quote in full, and it is the single most useful paragraph a 567 owner can read before buying:

"In order to achieve optimum performance, we recommend the use of high-quality net wrap. Use only John Deere approved net wrap material (See your John Deere dealer.)

467 and 467S; Use a roll size of 3000 m (9860 ft).

567; Use a roll size of 2000 m (6560 ft).

Edge to Edge net wrap is available, but requires spacer plugs in end of roll and adjustments made to the net wrap attachment."

— John Deere, Selecting Net Wrap Material, OME126851

Read what is and is not there:

• There is no width number. Not 64 in., not 67 in., not anything. If you have seen a confident "the 567 manual says 64 inches" claim, it did not come from this page.
• There is a length number, and it is model-specific. 2000 m (6560 ft) for the 567; 3000 m (9860 ft) for the 467 and 467S. Same manual, same paragraph, different rolls.
• Edge to Edge is conditional, not interchangeable. It "requires spacer plugs in end of roll and adjustments made to the net wrap attachment." That is a hardware and setup change, not a shopping preference.
• Deere restricts the material, not just the dimensions. "Use only John Deere approved net wrap material." A dimensional match is not approval, and no manufacturer — us included — can grant Deere approval on Deere's behalf. Only a John Deere dealer can tell you whether a specific non-Deere roll is approved for your PIN.

The manual's storage guidance from the facing page is worth following whatever brand you run: "Store in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight. Do not remove protective covering until ready for use," because "snags can cause erratic performance and affect bale appearance and weatherability."

Why roll length is the spec Deere chose to publish

It looks like an odd choice until you look at the machine. The net wrap compartment on this generation has a fixed envelope, and a roll that is too large in outside diameter simply will not sit in the cradle and let the cover close. Length is Deere's proxy for "a roll that physically fits this baler's compartment." That is why the 467, with a different chassis layout, gets a 3000 m figure and the 567 gets 2000 m.

The practical consequences:

• A longer roll is not a free upgrade on a 567. Buying 3000 m because it looks like better value per foot risks a roll that will not fit the compartment or will not let the brake set correctly.
• Length interacts with your wrap count, not with bale width. If you want to plan bales per roll, the rough arithmetic is wrap length per bale ≈ π × bale diameter × number of wraps. On a 5 ft bale at two wraps that is roughly 31 ft of net per bale, so a 6560 ft roll lands in the neighbourhood of 200 bales — before overlap, waste and the RPM correction in the next section. Use your own repeatable field results rather than any published number, including that one. Our net wrap per roll guide works through the same math in more detail.
• Core dimensions and maximum roll mass are not in the public pages. They remain a dealer/parts-book question. If a roll's core does not match your spindle and spacer setup, width is irrelevant.

Where the 64 in. vs. 67 in. question really comes from

The width question is legitimate — it just does not have a 567-manual answer. Here is the honest chain of reasoning, with the uncertainty left in.

The 567 makes a bale about 61 in. (roughly 5 ft) wide, with diameter adjustable across roughly a 36–72 in. range depending on setup. Net wrap has to be wider than the bale to reach the shoulders and hold the edges, which is why a nominal 5 ft baler is conventionally fed 64 in. net rather than 61 in. That is geometry, and it is why 64 in. is the common answer on a 567.

The 67 in. figure comes from the surface-wrap route. On the later 569, John Deere's manual does publish both widths explicitly — 64 in. Edge to Edge and 67 in. for CoverEdge and B-Wrap material — because that manual documents a surface-wrap unit as a catalogued attachment. The extra width is what lets the net roll over the bale shoulder instead of stopping at it. If your 567 carries a surface-wrap unit, the wider material is what that hardware was built around; if it carries the base net wrap attachment, it was not.

If you are weighing the premium surface-wrap products specifically, we have a separate cost-focused write-up on whether John Deere B-Wrap is worth it. And if your complaint is that net is not reaching the bale shoulders on the machine you already have, the cause is more often stretch, brake and paddle setup than width — see net wrap not covering to the edge.

Package verification worksheet

Fill this in from your machine and the roll you are considering. Any row you cannot complete is a row to take to a dealer. This is a checklist, not a ranking.

The wrap-count trap: your engine RPM changes the setting

This is the highest-value page in the 567 manual and the one most owners never open. The BALETRAK PLUS monitor-controller does not count net revolutions directly — it runs the wrap for a calibrated period. So if you bale below rated PTO speed, the number you dial in is not the number of wraps you get. Deere publishes a correction chart:

Two things follow directly, and both cost money if you get them wrong:

• Loafing the tractor silently under-wraps your bales. At 1300 RPM a setting of 2 does not give you two wraps — the manual says you need 3.3 to get there. If your bales are shedding net at the shoulders or losing shape in storage, check RPM before you blame the roll. Related: round bales not holding shape.
• Roll consumption changes with RPM too. A setting of 3.3 uses materially more net per bale than a setting of 2. If your bales-per-roll number collapsed after you started baling at lower revs, that is the reason, not the wrap.

The manual's settable range is 1.2–5 wraps in 0.1 increments, with an initial setting of two, and it flags three or more wraps for "short, dry, slick crops," "long, stiff, cane-type crops" and "cornstalks." Cornstalks in particular are hard on both the net and the machine.

Operators who have this dialled in are quick about it. On baling pace with a well-set 67-series Deere:

"I aim for 1:15 per bale for a 5x5.5 net wrapped with a 567, 568, or 569. And yes it can be done in a minute."

— eight, South Texas · AgTalk thread 1007330

And on why net wrap is easier on the machine than twine over a long life:

"Twine tie takes at least twice as many revolutions with a full bale in the chamber vs netwrap. If the 567 and up models were used with net wrap and didn't get tweaked along the way 40,000 is achievable."

— oldskool · AgTalk thread 1156702

Switching net wrap brands on a 567: treat it as a setup job

We sell net wrap, so read this section with that in mind — but it would be dishonest to pretend a brand change on this baler is always a drop-in. It sometimes is not, and the reason is mechanical rather than mysterious. The 567's net wrap detection uses an indicator paddle that has to physically sense the material passing. Nets differ in stiffness, edge finish and how they hang. One operator's account of exactly this:

"I used JD net wrap and set everything according to the school. Worked flawlessly through 4 rolls of net. Changed brands of net and had nothing but trouble. Had to put a kit on the baler to make the indicator paddle wider so it would detect the net."

— jd7520, West Central IA · AgTalk thread 1159224

Another operator in the same thread reaches the opposite commercial conclusion, and it is a fair one:

"Only use Deere wrap. Not a dedicated green farmer but I will say their net wrap is very good and works well with my 567. Cost difference is insignificant."

— Bennachie, SW Nebraska Panhandle · AgTalk thread 1159224

What we would actually recommend, whoever you buy from:

1. Change one variable at a time. Do not switch brand, width and wrap count in the same afternoon — you will not know which change caused the result.
2. Buy one roll before you buy a pallet. Any supplier confident in the fit should be comfortable with that, and it is far cheaper than a pallet you cannot run.
3. Run the first roll on a day you can afford to stop. Not the day a rain front is coming.
4. Watch detection specifically. If the monitor throws wrap faults with new net that it never threw with the old, suspect paddle sensing and brake tension before assuming a bad roll. John Deere net wrap problems and JD net wrap error codes cover the diagnostic paths.
5. Keep the old roll's label. It is your reference for what demonstrably worked on your machine.

If you are considering the twine-to-net conversion in the first place, we cover the economics in net wrap vs. twine and the hardware side in adding net wrap to a twine baler.

Threading limits that stop net wrapping around the rollers

Net wrapping itself around the feed rolls is the most-reported 567 net complaint, and two of the causes are stated as hard limits in the manual rather than as tips:

• The loop limit. "Do not thread more than 25 mm (1 in.) of loop between the two rolls or it may cause material to wrap around the rolls." A generous loop feels safer and is actively worse.
• Knife-to-roller contact. "Avoid knife contact with rubber roll. Any knife cuts in the rubber roll covering may result in more frequent wrapping around the rolls and may require roll replacement." A nicked rubber roll turns into a recurring problem that no change of net brand will fix.
• Roll orientation. "If net wrap is not being pulled off the front face of roll, the net roll has been installed backwards." Worth checking first, because it is free.
• Reset the brake before baling. The manual's threading procedure ends with "release brake lever and reset brake before using" specifically to avoid wrapping the rubber roll.

If this is already happening on your machine, net wrap wrapping around rollers works through the full diagnostic sequence, and how to load net wrap covers the loading steps generally.

Frequently asked questions

What size net wrap fits a John Deere 567?

The 567 operator's manual specifies a roll length — 2000 m (6560 ft) — and does not publish a roll width. The 567 makes a bale roughly 61 in. (5 ft) wide, and 64 in. net is the common choice for that bale width, with wider surface-wrap material used where a surface-wrap unit is fitted. Confirm width against your installed net wrap attachment and the physical roll label, and confirm approval status with a John Deere dealer.

Can I run a 3000 m roll on a John Deere 567?

The manual specifies 3000 m for the 467 and 467S and 2000 m for the 567, in the same paragraph. Treat the longer roll as specified for a different machine. The limiting factor is the net wrap compartment envelope, so a roll that is too large in outside diameter may not seat correctly or allow the cover to close.

Does a John Deere 567 need spacer plugs for net wrap?

The manual ties spacer plugs specifically to Edge to Edge material: "Edge to Edge net wrap is available, but requires spacer plugs in end of roll and adjustments made to the net wrap attachment." It also directs you to the Adjusting Net Wrap Stretch procedure in the service section. Confirm the current state of your machine before assuming plugs are or are not fitted.

Why is my John Deere 567 using more net wrap than it used to?

Check engine RPM first. The monitor-controller times the wrap cycle rather than counting revolutions, so at lower revs the manual's chart requires a higher setting to achieve the same number of wraps — 3.3 instead of 2 at 1300 RPM. A higher setting consumes proportionally more net per bale. Also check brake tension and whether the wrap count was changed for a slick or cane-type crop.

Will net wrap from a different brand work in a John Deere 567?

Often yes, but treat it as a setup change rather than a drop-in. The 567 detects net with an indicator paddle, and operators have reported needing a wider-paddle kit after a brand change. Buy a single roll first, change one variable at a time, and note that John Deere's manual restricts the machine to Deere-approved material — only a Deere dealer can confirm approval for your PIN.

Is a 566 net wrap part interchangeable with a 567?

Do not assume so. The net wrap and twine systems changed between the 566 and the 567, and operators report that a 566 monitor will run twine on a 567-era machine but will not run the net. Verify part numbers against your PIN rather than model family.

How many bales will one roll of net wrap do on a John Deere 567?

The manual does not publish a bales-per-roll figure. As rough planning math only, wrap length per bale is approximately π × bale diameter × number of wraps, which puts a 5 ft bale at two wraps near 31 ft of net and a 6560 ft roll in the region of 200 bales before overlap and waste. Your real number depends on bale diameter, wrap count, RPM and crop — use your own observed results.

Manual evidence for this article was read directly from John Deere's public operator's manual OME126851 (467, 467 Silage Special, and 567 Round Balers) at manuals.deere.com on September 4, 2026, including the Selecting Net Wrap Material, Care of Net Wrap Material, Threading Net Wrap, Setting Number of Net Wraps and Changing Baler Model Program pages. Roll width, core inside diameter, core length, maximum roll outside diameter and maximum roll mass are not published in the public pages reviewed and are reported here as unresolved rather than inferred. Dimensional compatibility is not John Deere approval, and no XES product is presented as Deere-approved anywhere in this article. Forum quotations are operator experience, not compatibility evidence, and are attributed to their original threads.