Many people are surprised to learn that high moisture content inside of a hay bale can actually cause that bale to catch on fire. This occurs when heat inside moist hay bales increases during the decomposition process. Straw and hay are often packaged in the same way, and many garden stores use the term straw regardless of whether a bale is hay or straw. While farmers, of course, will know the difference, many weekend gardeners may not.
For over 17 years, The Hay Manager has been innovating and improving hay management tools to the farming industry. Besides manufacturing round bale feeders.
Directions: On I, take exit to Trent, go through Trent and our shop is located on the East side of Trent at the intersection of th Ave and th Street. Straw is not as nutritionally valuable as hay and is generally less expensive than hay. Hay is harvested while it is still a live, healthy plant. Straw is the dead stalks of plants after the valuable parts of the plants have been harvested. Hay provides a good nutritional value for animals who are going to be eating it, while straw provides little nutrition.
Straw is normally used for a bedding material, while hay is used as a feed supplement. Straw is dried out and works well for building nests and providing cushioning for animals to sleep in. It is not moist like hay and is unlikely to mold. The walls of houses or buildings can be insulated with bales of straw — a natural product that is relatively cheap to use!! And, of course, straw is a very popular decoration for the front porch during the fall season.
Hay is usually gathered up into bales, and stored for the animals to eat during the winter when the grass is not growing. In many parts of the world, farmers depend on hay to feed their cattle, sheep, or horses during the long winter period. In periods of drought, hay can also be used to feed animals when normal grazing is not enough.
Many farmers specialize in growing hay that they sell to other farmers in their region. This blog covers the reasons why some bales are round and some are square. We want hay to come from plants that are good and healthy for animals to eat. This could mean nutritious grasses like ryegrass or bermudagrass or from legumes like clover or alfalfa. Hay will often be a mixture of plants that can make it more nutritious.
Growers need to be careful to not include plants that are poisonous. Hay is typically produced on perennial crops and often on land that may not be suitable for grain production. Straw is somewhat of a by-product. After cereal grain grasses, such as wheat, rye and barley have been harvested for the grain-bearing seed head, the hollow stems of these grass plants remain. These hollow stems or straw , are baled up much like the hay in rectangular-shape bales.
The hollow stems make for good insulating material, and for centuries straw has been used in farms and stables as warm bedding for animals.
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