wheat straw

Roy in georgia · Jun 1, 2008

I saw some guys baling wheat today and my F.I.L said he can't think of anything that would eat it so why would they round bale it? Is there some use for it that would require it round baled?

keh · Jun 1, 2008

Highway construction crews chop it up, add seed and fertilizer along with something sticky to hold it together, and blow it on road banks.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Jun 1, 2008

A few years ago my cousin had a small N-H round baler and round baled straw on contract for Campbell's mushroom farm. Around here straw is a bigger business than hay, but all in square bales.

Steven f/AZ · Jun 1, 2008

Straw works great for covering newly planted grass in the yard, keeping dirt from washing away on a new road construction project while the grass grows in, etc.

Those with cattle use straw for bedding. Keeps the newborn calves out of the mud, as well as the cows. Same deal for horses, nice clean straw is much better for the animals than mud/manure/snow.

We try to get around 100 straw bales every fall...

jlmtractor · Jun 1, 2008

i used to use wheat straw when seeding yards becuz it holds moisture so well.

but i no vermeer makes a straw blower that fits on the back of a tandem axle straight truck that uses full size round bales.

AB · Jun 1, 2008

We are in a rush to no-till double crop soybeans in the wheat stubble as soon as the wheat comes off. The straw helps keep the moisture in the ground. However, any farmer with livestock square bales a few acres for bedding and some is even ground into livestock feed rations to add bulk. To get quality straw we drop the chopper off a walker type combine and leave a nice windrow behind combine.

Had a small time operation in the county that started sewing mats of straw together for waterways/soil conservation. They now are a big time operation with many employees. They do a lot of new construction business including highways. They contract with local farmers to get round bales of wheat straw. There is a tradeoff - they want long stemmed straw out of walker type machines and the farmer stores the straw until they call for it. Majority of combines here are now rotary type.

There is also a nitrogen loss to the ground when the straw is removed and not allowed to break back down. The mat factory must pay pretty good or the farmers wouldn"t mess with them.

Leroy · Jun 2, 2008

Are you harvesting wheat now? Here anouther month to month and a half. Was it combined or was the grain still in it? Here some dairy farmers will chop the wheat just as soon as the heads fill and while still green for silage.

Big M · Jun 2, 2008

We had a late freeze-snow here in KS last year and pretty well did in our winter wheat crop. So we purchased a 25 foot flex head and cut all the wheat on the ground and winrowed the straw. Baled most of it in big round bales with plastic string, not net wrap. The last two of 40 loads of 34 bales per load are leaving this week. Half went to Denver and half went to Iowa. Helped salvage our disasterous wheat crop. Will bale another 1000 bales this year if the market is out there. Little square bales do not sell well unless you have a semi load and want to load a moving van headed east somewhere.

Roy in georgia · Jun 2, 2008

the combines were in the fields and the balers were not too far behind, the wheat was dry and dead it is in Georgia Fort Valley area. I made the trip to Valdosta to help my niece move to her new appt. little over 200 miles from my house in the south direction.

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