Sheet fastening and anchoring component

An agricultural sheeting fastening component capable of connecting a length of elongate resiliently extensible flexible material to a section of agricultural sheet material under tension stretching the resiliently extensible material in anchoring the sheet material to a support, the fastening component including:

• an attachment end comprising an attachment eye, and two arms, each arm including one or more prongs at a prongs end of the fastening component, each prong having a tip sufficiently sharp to pierce the sheet material to connect the fastening component to the sheet material, wherein a terminating portion of the prong(s) extends in a direction away from a junction of the prong to the arm and towards the attachment end of the fastening component at an angle between the arm and the terminating portion of the prong of between about −25 and about 45 degrees;
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• an angle intermediate of a length of a part of the fastening component comprising the arms and the attachment eye which directs the attachment eye away from the prongs at an acute angle to the arms of the fastening component and facilitates use of the attachment eye as a handle during insertion.