The article discusses how crop modeling can help design better agricultural machinery by understanding how fibrous biological materials compress. Researchers have found that the force needed to compress these materials depends on the compression rate, moisture content, and temperature. By using Prony series and Finite Element Method, they can accurately describe the compression behavior of both biological and non-biological materials. Preconditioning can improve the compression behavior of biological materials. Virtual stems created using contact models can simulate the forces experienced during compression.