Switchgrass Harvesting
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Top left: A switchgrass field ready to harvest.  Growth stopped and freezes have dried foliage.
Top center and right: View of switchgrass after a swather has cut and put the biomass into windrows.
Bottom left and center: A round baler making small bales.  For commercial production bales would be up to five feet tall and weigh 1500 lbs or more.
Bottom right: Switchgrass stubble after harvest with standing material along the sides.

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