A baling machine for forming large cylindrical bales of hay has a variable volume bailing chamber defined by moving belts with a crop inlet on the underside of the machine. When a bale has been completed it is wrapped with net stored in a holder on the back of the baler. The net is advanced by feed rolls through a cutting mechanism below the holder, and is then guided by a plate extending along the underside of a run of the belts to the baling chamber. The plate is in such close proximity to the run that the net is gripped between the plate and belts and is advanced by the moving belts. Finally, the net is cut by the cutting mechanism, the wrapping of net completed, and the bale discharged rearwardly through a gate onto the ground.