A bale processor (10) of a type for tearing apart a bale of foragematerial into filamentary material includes a shredder rotor (13) with bladesthat remove filamentary portions of the bale and delivers such filamentarymaterial directly to a multiple fan blower (14a/14b) for blowing suchfilamentary material directly to and out of a delivery chute (15). Anindependent dual discharge feature permits discharge out of either sideand/or one or more blowers placed closer to the shredder rotor can be usedindependently of the dual discharge feature and the multiple fan blowerfeature.