A harvesting machine (10) has an overshot secondary feed rotor (106) located behind an undershot cut and converge rotor (76). The harvesting machine (10) has a relatively wide swath crop take-up device (72) and a baling chamber (28) with a significantly narrower inlet (70). The cut and converge rotor (76) has a central region supporting a plurality of rotatable crop conveying members (82, 84, 86) interleaved by both a set of relatively fixed cutting blades (88) and a set of relatively fixed strippers (90) for urging cut crop (18) away from the cut and converge rotor (76), and end regions supporting rotatable helically disposed bands (98, 100) for receiving wide swath crop (18) from the take-up device (72) and urging the received crop (18) toward a central region (80). The feed rotor (106) creates an S-shaped or serpentine crop path with minimal dead space and is a positive feeder for bale starting. Stationary strippers (118) for the feed rotor (106) prevent crop (18) from exiting the harvesting machine (10) behind the secondary feed rotor (106).
