No, I believe he is talking about the smooth surface on the stalk, weathering seems to rough it up a bit,or remove some of it, and does like he mentions, which would also allow it to absorb more.
I can tell you, all of the fields of oats we were doing, a few years ago, we baled all the clean straw, usually right away, was for roughage at a large dairy operation, that stuff is slick, and I think he had the processor or extra knives on this late model, '08 JD sileage special baler, which chops the straw. It was set up with net wrap and there is a chart on how many wraps for what etc. I'll tell you one thing some of those bales even though dense and properely fed into the baler, would fall apart, big mistake, we got practically all of it off the field, some of those bales were just awful to deal with, slick and cut further, makes for a mess, the dairy operator feed guy would chop it anyway, where they make the feed for the 1000+ head dairy cows.
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