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[Cire]

Just found out this is a thing

How’s everyone’s wheat crop?

https://twitter.com/aarhar/status/1526590454157950976?s=21&t=W4zwgxrf7XINj2DWYcOUdQ

#wheattour22


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That wheat looks terrible. On a related note, wheat for July delivery is $12.58 at a local terminal.

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Central Ks looks solid. West looks like crap


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[ben ji]

My dad found a Robin nest in one of our empty grain bins.

[pissclams]

looks like they are taking full advantage of the high potassium levels in the straw

[KST8FAN]

On a trip thru the Dakotas this next week.  Wheat straw is a decorative filler at the corn palace in Mitchell SD

Our friend, milo, appears to be in the mix too.


Tom

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[michigancat]

Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.

What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?

[ben ji]

Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.

What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?

Iowa - Corn
Texas - Oil

[michigancat]

Probably better fit in maps thread but putting here. Land value.

What's going on with Iowa, and to a lesser extent the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles?

Iowa - Corn
Texas - Oil

You telling me corn stops growing across those imaginary lines that make Iowa's north and south borders?? Also Texas looks cheaper. Texas might be high property taxes?

[steve dave]

Yeah, guessing the immediate cutoff from IA to NE is the ridiculous NE property taxes. Same with TX.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

First time reading this 194 pager and I’m not going to check if this question has already been asked, but here’s my question:
Hay and straw…what’s the difference, REALLY?

[michigancat]

Yeah, guessing the immediate cutoff from IA to NE is the ridiculous NE property taxes. Same with TX.

Does Iowa just have ridiculously low property taxes? Because they have higher values compared to all their neighbors

[steve dave]

Just checked and no, they have high prop taxes too (not as high as NE but still high). Not sure what the deal is

[pissclams]

First time reading this 194 pager and I’m not going to check if this question has already been asked, but here’s my question:
Hay and straw…what’s the difference, REALLY?

iirc they are the same

[steve dave]

Yep, basically. Hay can be straw but most hay is not straw. Hay is like a generic term for cattle feed bails. Usually alfalfa around here but can be stalks or straw or whatever.

[steve dave]

Straw is probably the cheapest and loseriest type of hay

[steve dave]

Because the actual product (wheat) is already gone. There’s really no nutrition left in it. Just filler.

[pissclams]

ever heard of potassium, stan?

[KST8FAN]

Straw in my mind originates from wheat stubble.  Hay is Prarie grass, brome, or alfalfa.


Tom

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[star seed 7]

Straw in my mind originates from wheat stubble.  Hay is Prarie grass, brome, or alfalfa.


Tom

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Said this exact thing on Friday during a hay v straw conversation

[Cire]

I’ve never seen/heard of straw being used as a feed. Is that a thing?

We had fescue hay and alfalfa probably 70/30 or more fescue


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[Cire]

Alfalfa was like a supplement


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[ben ji]

What all the real farm bros have said, straw is leftover filler from a harvest. Hay is dedicated cattle feed from a field or a pasture.

[ben ji]

Cat ranch got some much needed rain and almost some snow, snowed a bit in eastern Colorado.

My dad would like everyone to know he DID NOT HAVE TO TURN THE FURNACE BACK ON. Instead he just burned a bunch of the firewood I just got done cutting.

[ben ji]

I put up this amount of firewood from the dead trees in the windbreak over my last 2 trips but that will be gone by the end of December assuming normal consumption.

I'll probably cut some more over the summer but I have learned my lesson and have a couple of stacks of firewood hidden in the windbreak for when I go out there in January to chase birds.

[ben ji]

It kinda blows my JoCo mind how different the landscape is on the other side of the state.

Here is one of the many cacti out on the cat ranch 

[wetwillie]

You seeing/hearing a lot of pheasants this spring?  Hoping the Kansas population in general did a lot of sex and made a lot of pheasant babies.