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Posted 3/29/2020 11:57 (#8148831 - in reply to #8148588)
Subject: RE: Best Quality Straw


southern MN
Rye makes a lot of straw, but it can be quite coarse.

Wheat straw can be highly valued. Typically shorter/ less than oats.

Oats straw is most common around here, you can find tall or short oats types.

I’ve planted a very few acres of barley the past couple years but it’s been so miserably wet I’ve grown more pigeon grass than actual straw in those patches I need to do better to comment. It seems short, less volume than oats, but I need to do better before knowing much. What little I got seems stiffer stems then a good oats.

For my livestock I like my conventional combine with the straw chopper making shorter beaten straw to absorb better. This is on oat and back when I grew rye. Back in the day some neighbors without straw choppers would run a corn stalk chopper over the oat straw windrows to beat them up. Makes bent and softer more absorbent out of longer straw.

Some folk prefer long stemmed straw for pets or soil stabilization then not chopped.

Paul
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