ASABE requests input on baling twine standard revision.
Press Release Summary:
ASABE has initiated project to revise ANSI/ASAE S315.4, Agricultural Baling Twine for Automatic Balers. Standard provides uniform polyolefin and sisal agricultural baler twine specifications to ensure satisfactory performance in round and square balers as well as adequate durability in normal storage and handling of baled forage and biomass materials. Revision adds larger packaging size category for large square baler twine and re-wording of description for knotters on large square baler.
Original Press Release:
ASABE Requests Input on Agricultural Baling Twine Standard Revision
ST JOSEPH, MICHIGAN — The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated a project to revise ANSI/ASAE S315.4, Agricultural Baling Twine for Automatic Balers. The standard provides uniform polyolefin and sisal agricultural baler twine specifications to ensure satisfactory performance in round and square balers as well as adequate durability in normal storage and handling of baled forage and biomass materials.
The standard is being revised to add a larger packaging size category for large square baler twine to provide an alternative for greater twine-carrying capability and re-wording of the description for knotters on a large square baler. The committee would like additional input from twine producers, large square baler manufacturers, and users of agricultural baler twine. Anyone interested in providing input on this revision is asked to contact Scott Cedarquist, cedarq@asabe.org.
ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 250 standards currently in publication. Conformance to ASABE standards is voluntary, except where required by state, provincial, or other governmental requirements, and the documents are developed by consensus in accordance with procedures approved by the American National Standards Institute. A current listing of all ASABE standards projects can be found on the ASABE web site at www.asabe.org/projects.
ASABE is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Further information on the Society can be obtained by contacting ASABE at (269) 429-0300, emailing hq@asabe.org or visiting www.asabe.org/.
