An agricultural stalk press for pressing bales or big bales, in particular, cuboid-shaped bales or big bales, the stalk press being provided with a pick-up device for picking up harvested material, with a cutting module for shredding the harvested material, the cutting module arranged downstream of the pick-up device in the conveying direction of the harvested material, with a pressing device for pressing the harvested material into bales of a defined size, the pressing device being arranged downstream of the cutting module, wherein a binder device is assigned to the pressing device, which binder device wraps twine around a finished pressed bale or big bale and knots the twine, and, arranged downstream of the pressing device, a conveying device and/or depositing device for ejecting finished pressed bales or big bales bound with twine, - wherein the cutting module comprises at least one blade cassette, which is removable from the stalk press in a transverse direction to a longitudinal central axis of the stalk press and which has a multitude of cutting blades attached or mounted thereto, and a rotating blade roller in cutting engagement with the cutting blades of the blade cassette, characterised in that the blade cassette with the multitude of cutting blades is assigned a motor actuator, which can move the blade cassette between an operating position within the stalk press and a service position moved out of the stalk press, - in which service position the blade cassette is movable between the two end positions by means of a motor-actuated, shiftable carriage in the direction of movement transverse to the longitudinal central axis of the stalk press, - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a gear rack connected to the shiftable carriage, which gear rack is in meshing engagement with an electromotively, hydraulically, or pneumatically operated input gear wheel, or wherein an input gear wheel actuated by means of a gear rack is assigned to the carriage, which input gear wheel is in meshing engagement with the gear rack, or - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a linear actuator coupled with the shiftable carriage, which linear actuator comprises an electric motor actuator or a fluid actuator, or - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a cable actuator connected to the shiftable carriage, which cable actuator is actuated by means of at least one electric motor actuator. - wherein the cutting module comprises at least one blade cassette, which is removable from the stalk press in a transverse direction to a longitudinal central axis of the stalk press and which has a multitude of cutting blades attached or mounted thereto, and a rotating blade roller in cutting engagement with the cutting blades of the blade cassette, characterised in that the blade cassette with the multitude of cutting blades is assigned a motor actuator, which can move the blade cassette between an operating position within the stalk press and a service position moved out of the stalk press, - in which service position the blade cassette is movable between the two end positions by means of a motor-actuated, shiftable carriage in the direction of movement transverse to the longitudinal central axis of the stalk press, - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a gear rack connected to the shiftable carriage, which gear rack is in meshing engagement with an electromotively, hydraulically, or pneumatically operated input gear wheel, or wherein an input gear wheel actuated by means of a gear rack is assigned to the carriage, which input gear wheel is in meshing engagement with the gear rack, or - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a linear actuator coupled with the shiftable carriage, which linear actuator comprises an electric motor actuator or a fluid actuator, or - wherein the motor actuator of the carriage comprises a cable actuator connected to the shiftable carriage, which cable actuator is actuated by means of at least one electric motor actuator.