Windrow

As swath or windrow is defined as the equitable together in rows or stored ( geschwadete ) crop at harvest of particular grass or grain, but also of other crops, for example, use of beet leaves as animal feed.

In the grassland the cut for the production of hay or silage grass is " placed on swath " Before recovery with baler or forage harvester loading trailer with a swather. For this purpose, gegengeschwadet with a side delivery usually once lengthwise and then back again. Alternatively, the swath is placed directly in the middle. In this way the crop is in row form together just to get it after that involve labor-saving can. The same applies to the accumulating at the grain harvest straw, to the extent it has not already been filed by the combine in windrows or had to be tedded due to rain before the straw harvesting for better drying. Furthermore, swather put the crop immediately after the cut off on the swath.

When drying hay to be dried grass is also back in the evening usually placed on the swath, so it is not as strong moistened by rain or dew at night again. Such Nachtschwad can not be created only with the special machine Rake, but with reduced rotor speed with a tedder.