An open throat intake for a baler B, includes a pickup unit 10 with tines for picking up crop material from the ground and carrying it towards a first roller 13 located across a baler inlet 11. Above the first roller 13 is a second roller 14 both of which include auger flighting 16, 17 on outward sides thereof, but preferably overlapping with the inlet 11. In use the auger portions urge material carried from the outside edges of the pick-up unit 10 and toward the baler inlet 11 which is generally narrower than the pick-up unit 10. The spacing between the rollers 13, 14 may be adjustable and at least one retainer plate 18 may be associated with one or both of the first and second rollers 13, 14 and/or associated with the auger flightings 16, 17
