Patent ID: 8516954

Claim:
A method of labeling a bale comprising: conveying crop material to a bale chamber of an agricultural square baler with a mechanism, the square baler having a reciprocable plunger for compressing the crop material in the bale chamber to form a bale; and inserting at least one wireless tag into the crop material in a pre-chamber prior to entry into the bale chamber, such that each tag is placed, with respect to a finished bale, at a substantially known location, wherein said location is within the bale material, proximate an outer surface of the finished bale, wherein said bale forming step is accomplished in the square baler via a formation of multiple slices of bale material, wherein each slice is first formed in the pre-chamber and ejected into the bale chamber by a crop transfer mechanism; and wherein said tag is inserted into the pre-chamber during formation of at least one slice of the multiple slices of bale material.