Abstract: A chopping blade has a main body made of hardened steel. The blade body is formed with at least one cutting-edge region, a fastening region for fastening the blade to a carrier and in each case a transition region between the cutting-edge region and the fastening region. The main body bears a hard material coating in the cutting-edge region. The hardness of the main body is uniform throughout over all regions. A chopping drum carries a multiplicity of these chopping blades on its periphery.
Abstract: A hard facing for an agricultural machine blade which contains hard particles of 40 to 100 .mu.m in particle size and a hardness of greater than 1400 HV in a matrix with hardness of 500 to 800 HV.