Julian Roos, a 15-year-old Ingersoll-area entrepreneur, is about to level up his small square hay bale business.
Roos’s parents, Jony and Jan, of Rose Agri Service, became an Ontario dealer for Arcusin, a Spain-based farm equipment manufacturer, and its MultiPack E14 bale bundler earlier this year.
The small-square-bale aggregator, which creates bundles of either 10, 12 or 14 bales and ties them for easy transfer onto or off trailers or wagons, was the highlight of a June 19 demo day hosted by Rose Agri Service.
Why it matters
Ontario hay has a market in the southeastern U.S. equine sector, but Julian Roos moved more than 5,000 small squares last year with his siblings unloading wagons by hand. A bundler that picks up 700 bales an hour changes the math on what one family can handle.
5,000 bales by hand
Julian has been baling and selling hay for three years. In 2025, he sold more than 5,000 small bales off the field, with help from his two younger siblings and parents, unloading wagons by hand. Jony, said it was inevitable that the question of how to make it easier through mechanization would arise.
“We had actually looked into buying (a MultiPack E14) in the United States,” Jony told Farmtario, “but that didn’t end up working out.”
Ontario dealer
A few months later, in November 2025, they met the Arcusin team — this year celebrating its 50th anniversary as a global brand — at the massive Agritechnica farm show in Germany.
Rose Agri Service was well established in southwestern Ontario’s farm community for its concrete crushing, automated stone-picking and custom combining services, so it made sense to add Arcusin regional dealer to their stable of offerings.
Currently, they’re only offering Arcusin’s MultiPack that complements the handlers for the small square bale bundles, as well as stackers and accumulators for large square bales they already market.
Four bales at a time
At the demo, Julian demonstrated the E14’s bundling efficiency using a Fendt 211 tractor and straw bales inside a horse training track field the family rents next to Highway 401 in Putnam.
“We planned to have the hay (in the field) cut and baled for the demo day, but the weather didn’t co-operate,” commented Jan as the demonstration began.
Micah Carey, Arcusin’s Kansas City-based U.S. service manager, arrived in Ontario two days before the demo to provide training sessions with the Roos family and explain the bale bundler to hay producers.
While the previous bundle is being tied and slides off the back, the front of the machine picks up the next four bales, meaning it rarely requires a stop or a slowdown while baling and bundling a field.
- Bundle options: 10, 12 or 14 small squares
- Capacity: up to 700 bales an hour off the field
- Bundle width: 34 to 39 inches, set to the customer’s spec
- Compression: a seven-bale side-by-side stack goes from 98 inches to 90 during tying
- Bale types: variable lengths, two- or three-tie
Variable bundle size
Fourteen-bale bundles are ideal for loading dry hay off the field onto waiting transport trailers. The 12-bale and 10-bale bundles are similar in size to standard large square bales, allowing them to be wrapped in plastic if hay is harvested before it’s dry.
Where they’re already selling
Carey said Arcusin bale bundlers — available in Europe for about 25 years — have become increasingly popular in Western Canada due to dealers in Alberta and Manitoba. He’s also aware of two that were purchased by hay producers in Quebec.
With the Roos family on board to promote the brand in Ontario, he’s confident the Multipack E14 will also take off in this province.
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