Why Bale When You Can Pellet --- Premos 5000 Wins Agritechnica Gold

Opinion

Author’s Note: Okay, there are probably plenty of reasons you should bale instead of pellet (like: we don’t really have a choice yet). It’s just, well, it’s not every day that I get to use a noun as a verb in a headline.  Last week I stumbled upon one of the coolest tweets I’ve seen all year. All the way from Hanover, Germany, Krone’s Premos 5000 has won an Agritechnica Gold. Coming from the Latin word, premere (meaning “pressing”), the Premos 5000 is the world’s first pellet harvester. Like a baler, the machine starts by picking up a swath through a 2.35m pick-up…