Ok then. What exactly makes them betterIJ ClaasIJIJ You have to be kidding me. No one and I mean no one makes a better baler than John Deere. Straw, hay, alfalfa, millet, sudan grass, oats, oats straw I've baled them all and no one comes close to the JD. The only thing that slows a John Deere baler down in straw is the fact that in real heavy straw it catches on the tractor and balls up.