Changes in life, was got milk.....

Brown Swiss

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Now it is, Got Straw? Lol Boss bought a bunch of straw out of Texas and Oklahoma, like 100 loads, now I have to truck it home to WI! And yes this fits this forum because this is using your tractor and crop talk, and I am talking about a crop of straw and using a semi TRACTOR to haul it! Lol So the question, Got Straw?
 
Forgot the picture I was going to add!
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My cattle could stomp all of that in to the mud in less than a week right now. I wish I could ad LOL but it's not a laughing matter anymore. Looks like no corn stalks will get baled this year either.
 

There's over 200 big sq bales of wheat straw stacked on natural gas well site on property I lease. I was told these bales will be hauled to mushroom growing plant. By chance are you hauling any bales from N Texas?
 
The stack in the picture had 449 in it
and located south of Guyer Texas! We are
selling these to farms in the midwest for
bedding and mixxing in tmr for dry
cow/heifer rations!
 
Hard to believe straw is worth that much bother, but it has been a tough several years to put up any type of dry crop in the northern tier of states.

I need to check some hay auctions, I don?t have much but have a few extra bales of hay and maybe straw to move out. Have a bundle of round bales of overripe grass hay stored outside, like everyone else hard to make good hay.

Paul
 
Dairy farmers are buying straw for bedding and adding to TMR mixers, and are in direct competition with mushroom plants for the same straw. I know and understand why Dairy farmers add straw to TMR, but while it might have made economic sense 10 years ago, with the price of straw, why not just try to feed the cows a ration that wasn?t quite so hot, maybe take a bit less milk, but still be money ahead? Thankfully I was able to grow enough straw, even with this dry summer of 19 , that we don?t have to buy any. It sells for right around 100 bucks a bale here. And that is about the same as 75 bucks US.
 
Wow!!! I baled over 1000 3x4x8 bales of barley straw this fall we sold it for $20 a bale and had to load it... I baled a bunch of 14x18 lil bales and got 2.50 each out of them... I hope I kept enough to get me thru till spring grass... winter showed up early...
 
So that's what they do with this stuff! Here in N. Texas I pass some fields of just what's in the picture. Ever time I passed one of these piles, I wondered about it's weatherability and resulting food value, not knowing it was cropped for bedding animals, and mushrooms. In the same fields, are multiple, tall, steel structures and I guess they were built to store the same out of the weather for different applications I suppose, maybe the part of the crop used for feed.
 

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