ITS upgraded balers as well as its ‘Tractor of the Year’ Maxxum tractor were Case IH’s main feature at Grassland UK.

Three newly-upgraded balers included the four-wheeled RB 545 Silage Pack, which is a fixed chamber round baler that has an improved front hood access when changing net and film, stronger rotor cutter knives, a configurable blank knife option, and longer wrapper table belts.

The biggest change to the RB variable chamber models is an integrated wrapper option – previously only available on fixed chamber balers. Machines leave the factory wrapper-ready and are then transferred to wrapper manufacturer, Goweil, for fitment.

This option is available for RB 455 and RB 465 models in Rotor Cutter specification.

The RB 455 VC round baler also gets a 2018 upgrade. This includes a dual density option, while a new rotor design on Rotor Cutter models improves durability, with tine thickness increased from 6mm to 8mm and inter-tine spacing up from 8mm to 10mm.

A new net wrapper design has a better knife to improve cut quality and its bale shape fill sensor sensitivity has been improved.

Square bale users also got to see Case IH’s improved LB 334P model, which has a 31% longer bale chamber for better bale stability during formation, improving bale density and shape, with less risk of the twine snapping. It has also gained a new active bale ejection system.