plate 11 is positioned in a substantially vertical position and maintain an angle with respect to the incoming flow of crop material which allows deflection of such material inwardly and towards the mouth of the baler 39 s crop processing apparatus in a preferred embodiment the position of plate 11 is angled between 30 and 70 degrees and preferably 45 degrees with respect to the direction of flow of incoming crop material it is noted that a preferred embodiment includes the above described transition element and cam components configuration on both ends of pickup 3 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention therefore it is seen that this configuration of auger screw bearing supports provides at least three great advantages over previous auger screw bearing support configurations previously a second auger screw bearing support was placed outside of both auger screw drive sprockets this increased the overall width of the pickup limiting the useful width with regard to the above mentioned regulations that restrict the overall width as discussed above this is disadvantageous because it tends to increase the overall pickup width as compared to the tine to tine width by contrast it is seen that the present invention minimizes the overall width while maximizing the overall useful tine to tine width as seen particularly in fig5 the internal bearing support 41 is disposed in line with cam bearing support 40 such that the former component is adjacent to the feeding chamber 47 and the latter is under the feeding chamber 47.