The paper presents experimental investigations of straw cutting in the form of triticale. The cutting was performed using a specialist station adapted to be mounted on a MTS Insight 50 kN testing machine. It is also adapted to change the cutting blade, which made it possible to study the effect of changing the angle of its blade and the attack of the cutting edge on the cutting force. The influence of the linear speed of the knife and the size of the gap between the blade and the counter-blade was also investigated. The results obtained allowed the selection of the most favorable values ​​of the above-mentioned parameters of the cutting process in terms of obtaining the lowest value of the cutting force, which consequently has an impact on the energy consumption of the process. Obtained results are not only guidelines for machine design and cutting devices, but these can also be used as input data for multicriteria analysis, which can result in looking for other values ​​of process parameters not taken into account in the presented studies, and key ones in the direction of the next ones.