Abstract: A mobile meal production means for a crop, such as lucerne, comprising a self propelled vehicle carrying a pick-up reel, a conveyor connecting the reel to a hammer-mill and a cyclone device connected to the hammer-mill. The output of the cyclone is fed, via a first vertically disposed auger, to the top of a holding hopper. A second vertically disposed auger is then connected between the bottom of the hopper and the top of a bagger.

Abstract: A mobile, self-propelled chaff-production means in which windrowed hay is picked up and conveyed to a chaff-cutter via a covered conveyor. As the hay moves along the conveyor it is moistened by steam applied to it through jets located beneath the input region of the conveyor so that when the hay reaches the chaff-cutter it is moist enough not to be fractured on impact of the blades and cutter bar. The resulting chaff is then conveyed by an auger to a twin-column screw bagger as a final, saleable product.

Abstract: A h ay conditioner comprised of a hay pick-up, a covered conveyor, a discharge chute and a steam generator in communication with a plurality of steam input nozzles, wherein the conditioned hay is continuously discharged from the chute as the vehicle progresses so as to traverse a windrow.