In Khuzestan Province over 70,000 ha of land are under sugarcane plantations. Considering 20% of the total product as leaves and tops, the weight of these residues was estimated one and a half million metric tons in 2010. In most countries of the world suitable for sugarcane production such as Brazil, India and even Iran, these residues are burned that contribute to environmental pollution and cause organic material loss. These residues could be used as livestock feed stuff or as biofuel energy required in sugarcane industry. Existence of these residues on the soil surface is an obstacle for irrigation and makes other problems. Regarding to high mass and physical properties of these residues machines used for harvesting these residues has not shown satisfactory performance. For this purpose, a new machine was developed and evaluated for the collecting and packing of sugar cane residues. This machine consists of a small size round baler equipped with a roller pickup. The two sections of the machine was mounted on a frame and chassis and operated by a tractor’s PTO shaft. After various parts were designed based on mechanical engineering design practices and considering proper safety factor and standard part, machine was prepared for preliminary field evaluation. After fabricating process, machine was moved to the farm at Isfahan University of Technology. To provide field conditions based on the current procedure for furrows preparation in southern Iran sugarcane plantations, the furrows were made with 180cm center to center distance of the hills. Sugarcane leaves and tops traorted from Khuzestan Province were poured in the furrows to simulate field conditions after mechanized harvesting. Massey Ferguson 285 tractor was used in order to test the machine. The machine with tractor engine speed of 1800 RPM, PTO driven speed of 540 RPM and tractor forward speed of 3.5 km h -1 was tested. Preliminary observations indicated that about 80% of the residue was gathered but some of them were back fed into the furrows due to poor performance of the roller pickup. In order to resolve this problem the roller pickup was replaced with the finger pick up mechanism. The fingers were positioned on the lower roller. Field evaluation observations showed that after implementation of certain modifications on the pickup mechanism, including installation of two dividers on the sides of the pick up head for driving2 residues towards fingers, decrease in the pick up fingers rotational speed and improvement in the feeding rollers performance placed in the opening of the bale chamber, it is possible to use this machine for the collection and packing sugar cane residue and besides other agricultural crops residue. Keywords: Sugarcane, residue harvesting, pick-up head, baler–packer machine