Is baling supported as a residue management activity in Version 5?

Baling activities are not currently supported in Version 5. There are two related challenges that have not yet been resolved:

• Crop residue as a co-product, where an allocation factor (economic, mass, or other) would lower the GHG impacts attributed to the grain.
• Baling as a harvest operation that creates crop interval definition conflicts.

For grain commodities such as rice, the platform’s crop interval structure allows for one harvest operation, with the full impact allocated to the grain. The only commodity currently supported with multiple harvest activities within the same interval is alfalfa, as it is a perennial crop. Co-product support is currently only available for cotton, where an economic allocation factor is applied between cotton lint and cottonseed.

Enhanced support for co-products, multiple harvests, and allocation factors is planned for a future release.