A baler implement comprising: a housing defining a baling chamber for forming crop material into a bale; a knotter system engageable to wrap the bale with a wrapping strand; wherein the knotter system includes a component moveable between a standby position and a wrapping position during engagement of the knotter system to wrap the bale; a knotter sensor positioned to detect movement of the component between the standby position and the wrapping position and operable to communicate a knotter engagement signal in response to movement of the component; a tag installer operable to attach an identification tag to the bale, wherein the identification tag is a radio frequency identification tag including data related to the identification tag; a bale sensor for sensing a property of the bale, and a baler implement controller having a processor and a memory having a bale identification algorithm stored thereon, a reader in communication with the knotter sensor and positioned to interrogate the identification tag, wherein the reader is operable to emit an interrogation signal and receive an identification signal from the identification tag in response to the interrogation signal; wherein the reader is automatically activated to emit the interrogation signal for a defined period of time in response to the knotter engagement signal from the knotter sensor indicating movement of the component of the knotter system while wrapping the bale with the strand material, wherein the processor is operable to execute the bale identification algorithm to: receive data related to the bale from the bale sensor; receive the knotter engagement signal from the knotter sensor; control the reader to emit the interrogation signal in response to receiving the knotter engagement signal; receive the identification signal from the identification tag in response to the interrogation signal, wherein the identification signal includes identification data related to the identification tag; associate the data related to the bale with the identification data related to the identification tag of the bale; communicate the associated data related to the bale and the identification data related to the identification tag to a remote memory. a housing defining a baling chamber for forming crop material into a bale; a knotter system engageable to wrap the bale with a wrapping strand; wherein the knotter system includes a component moveable between a standby position and a wrapping position during engagement of the knotter system to wrap the bale; a knotter sensor positioned to detect movement of the component between the standby position and the wrapping position and operable to communicate a knotter engagement signal in response to movement of the component; a tag installer operable to attach an identification tag to the bale, wherein the identification tag is a radio frequency identification tag including data related to the identification tag; a bale sensor for sensing a property of the bale, and a baler implement controller having a processor and a memory having a bale identification algorithm stored thereon, a reader in communication with the knotter sensor and positioned to interrogate the identification tag, wherein the reader is operable to emit an interrogation signal and receive an identification signal from the identification tag in response to the interrogation signal; wherein the reader is automatically activated to emit the interrogation signal for a defined period of time in response to the knotter engagement signal from the knotter sensor indicating movement of the component of the knotter system while wrapping the bale with the strand material, wherein the processor is operable to execute the bale identification algorithm to: receive data related to the bale from the bale sensor; receive the knotter engagement signal from the knotter sensor; control the reader to emit the interrogation signal in response to receiving the knotter engagement signal; receive the identification signal from the identification tag in response to the interrogation signal, wherein the identification signal includes identification data related to the identification tag; associate the data related to the bale with the identification data related to the identification tag of the bale; communicate the associated data related to the bale and the identification data related to the identification tag to a remote memory. receive data related to the bale from the bale sensor; receive the knotter engagement signal from the knotter sensor; control the reader to emit the interrogation signal in response to receiving the knotter engagement signal; receive the identification signal from the identification tag in response to the interrogation signal, wherein the identification signal includes identification data related to the identification tag; associate the data related to the bale with the identification data related to the identification tag of the bale; communicate the associated data related to the bale and the identification data related to the identification tag to a remote memory.