Agricultural baler with mechanism to limit bale roll after ejection

An agricultural baler, comprising:

• a chassis;
• a pickup carried by the chassis and configured to pick up crop material;
• a baling chamber carried by the chassis and configured to receive picked up crop material, the baling chamber comprising a roll assembly configured to form a round bale from picked up crop material;
• and
• a wrapping assembly carried by the chassis and comprising:
• a supply of wrapping material;
• a wrapping mechanism configured to wrap the wrapping material around a round bale formed by the baling chamber;
• a protrusion inserter configured to insert a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale;
• and
• a controller operably coupled to the wrapping mechanism and the protrusion inserter, the controller being configured to:
• output a wrap initiation signal to the wrapping mechanism so the wrapping mechanism begins wrapping the formed round bale;
• and
• output a protrusion insertion signal to the protrusion inserter so the roll-reducing protrusion is inserted on a surface of the formed round bale and is subsequently wrapped by wrapping material wrapped around the formed round bale by the wrapping mechanism.

A method of forming a round bale with an agricultural baler, the method comprising:

• forming the round bale from crop material in a baling chamber;
• inserting a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale;
• and
• wrapping the formed round bale and the roll-reducing protrusion with wrapping material from a supply of wrapping material to produce a wrapped round bale with the roll-reducing protrusion wrapped in the wrapping material and extending from the wrapped round bale in a manner that inhibits rolling of the wrapped round bale after ejection from the baling chamber.