Straw is part of the harvest that farmers usually process back for various purposes on the farm and for side profits. It comes from drying cereal plants such as rice, wheat, oat, rye, and barley. If all these plants go through the drying process, the number will decrease by about half. After that, you can use it for several different uses such as thatched roofs, fuel, livestock bedding, basket making or other handicrafts and animal feed.
When you visit a farm you will definitely see the pleasant sight of haystacks or square and round bales of various sizes and lines of straw. As far as the eye can see there is only straw which has become an icon of livestock and agricultural atreas.
You can imagine that people from the big cities who never visit shady countryside style places on a daily basis will soon immortalize this rare moment. Most will continue to use social media to have exciting interactions with their followers.
How the straw that farmers usually collect and then store in straw bales is a good thing that they never see in the city. The straw bales are always consistently on the ground or inside the warehouse because of the thread, wire,or rope that ties them tightly. Straw bales of any shape, whether round, square, rectangular, and small to big, can be a fun tourist destination.
So, what exactly is straw and can we make it from any plant?
The Difference of Straw and Hay
Perhaps many people still don’t know what the difference is between straw and hay. Even though they both have similarities as agricultural by-products. We have to know the difference between them to choose which is the best one to grow and consume.
Simply put, it comes from the stalks of cereal plants, which is a waste product that farmers often use as animal bedding and thatched roofs. While hay is what farmers uses as animal feed and usually comes from grasses and alfalfa.
When you want to order hay from a farm, you will usually find a similar form of hay. Especially if you order online and only see the product from photos or videos. Basically, straw and hay both come from farm life. Then what is the difference between the two so that if we order dry animal feed or bedding and roofing from dry plants we will get the right ones.
We start from hay where if you mention this word in front of farmers then they will refer to the entire plant they harvest down to the seed heads. Most farmers grow hay to use as animal feed. This hay comes from plants that are a type of animal feed such as alfalfa, special grasses, and rye. Then hay is a plant that farmers will bundle in its intact condition. It’s different from straw where only the plant stems that farmers bundle. While they will throw away the seed heads.
Next, it comes from the hollow tube shaped stems of cereal plants such as oats, barley, and wheat which humans can also consume apart from being an animal feed and other needs for livestock.
Anyway, you can make it into a thatched roof, animal bedding on farms, and mulch. Humans often plant straw organically so that is free from chemicals. However, people need healthy food for themselves and the animals on the farm.
The Most Common Type of Straw
In the world of animal husbandry, farmers like to use straw because the raw material is easy and cheap. Even if they plant cereal crops, they will get harvests for daily human food consumption as well as animal feed and other livestock needs. Thatched roofs can also be items that they make with handicrafts which are useful for traditional housing of humans and animals.
Maybe you want to make a comfortable horse lodge complete with bedding that you can immediately throw away when it is completely destroyed by horse manure. There are several variations of straw that you can use. Ranging from price, suitability, and availability. You can also make it yourself using a baler wrapper machine which you can buy at Jummos.
You can make small or big bales. Next, you just need to adjust the size of bales to the size of the bale storage space and how easy it is to distribute. So, what type of straw do farmers commonly process for various purposes? It is wheat straw. Farmers like to use wheat straw because it comes from their daily diet. They can grow wheat for people’s food as well as provide food for animals.
Wheat straw is quite light, durable, and is the type that people most commonly use. Even though it doesn’t taste as delicious as oat or barley straw, due to its characteristics, many people are interested in this animal feed.
Barley and Oat Straw
Horses really like barley straw which has long stems and is bright yellow in color. Farm animals really like it because it tastes good but can cause weight gain in livestock.
Meanwhile oat straw has pores with a very good taste and can increase weight too. Horses should not consume too much oat straw so that their running activities are always in good condition.
Sometimes oat straw becomes so heavy when it is turned into bales that you will distribute it to various places. But you don’t need to worry because Tsingtao Jummos Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. will help you shape any type of straw into amazing bales.
We have so many types of machines that you can choose to wrap bales into quality ones that you can easily distribute to many places. We have collaborated with many partners in various countries, both individual and corporate partners, for many years. What do you need? Is it a bale mixer, small automatic baler wrapper, big bale wrapping machine, front loading pitchfork or bake clipper that makes transportation easier?
We have all you need. If you want to create convenience in the wrapping and distribution of straw bales then you can rely on our various machines. Remember the straw bales so you will remember Jummos.