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$20 straw

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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One would think there is some profit there , wheat straw out of the field here in late July is usually $ 2.00 . Have to store it and move it but that is still pricy.
 
Is that a full size bale or one of the mini bales? I've seen the mini bales for close to that price.
 
Place about 100 miles from here came Saturday and got a tractor trailer load of our son's round bales of straw to rebale into small squares.
They are back again this morning for another load.
They must be making some money.
Richard
 
Jerry,
I paid $2 for about 40# straw form neighbor 2 miles away.
Bought 20 bales for garden weed control.
 
Thaat is about right , we have got where most of the time we just run the straw choppers and forget about it. When we bale I would try to screw the machine down to get 45 lb bales.
 
Not as much profit in it as you think.

Yeah you can buy it out of the field for $2 a small square, or $4 or $5 or whatever... Then it has to be hauled ($$$), stored ($$$), rebaled ($$$), packaged ($$$), hauled to the distribution center for the store ($$$), stored some more ($$$), hauled out to the stores ($$$), and stocked ($$$).

Between each step is some sort of handling where a person lays hands on it, so ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$).

The farmer is NOT getting $19.99 for a bale of straw. The farmer is getting $2 for a bale of straw, but that straw goes on to give about a dozen people jobs.
 
Two places around me up north are selling 40# $6 straw for Halloween decorations.
Want a fortune for Pumpkins too.
 
(quoted from post at 05:17:29 10/04/21) Jerry,
I paid $2 for about 40# straw form neighbor 2 miles away.
Bought 20 bales for garden weed control.
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How does straw control weeds??? Is it impregnated with some sort of slow release weed seed killer?
 
ya know, I bet they sell a few of these. Sub-urban soccer moms will buy one or two of these to put on front porch with the kids jack-o-lanterns. Notice they are clear plastic wrapped? Clear sign they are catering to soccer moms, so they don't mess up the inside of thier SUV's while taking them home. And no, they won't be used for gardening after the halloween/thanksgiving decoration season is over. It'll be taken out to the curb for the trash man to pick up the very next day when the decorations are taken down.
It used to bother me that an older friend use to laugh out how stupid people can be, rather than trying to educate them on how stuff can be done more cheaper, efficient, and smarter, and what not. But as I have gotten older myself, I have just got to the point I have just throwed my hands up in the air, and laugh as well. People that are wasteful and spend money like its water, will see things twice worse, when times really get bad. The dirty 30's will roll around again someday. History always repeats itself. And these type people are the ones who will really be in trouble. And the reason why, is because people like thus of the modern age, don't know any different.
 
A few years ago my neighbor gave me 8 bales of straw to mulch my potatoes. Being lazy I just laid the slabs like floor tile with openings for the potatoes to come through. It was a cold, wet spring, the potatoes did not yield the best. By the next spring the straw was 95% gone! I tried slabs of old hay the next year and within 360 days that material was virtually gone as well. That was defective as well!!! LOL
 
We took straw from last year strawberries and put taters on the ground. Best tasters ever.
Tilled tater and covered with
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Straw. Taters are growing again

In background news straw over strawberries.

We like $2 straw. If it rots, just adding nutrients to soil.

Never watered potatoes last year.


Each to their own. We love straw.
 
i beat you! i sold mine in the swath for 10.00 per big round bale. people get greedy bale a bunch of straw then think they will et 45-50 per bale. lots of straw around here.
 
ya about the same deal in grocery stores. things are so out priced cant afford stuff already , while those workers are standing around pickin
their nose. and yes a saw that! Stompin Tom has it all summed up in his song Tillsonburg !
 
(quoted from post at 07:28:51 10/04/21) Not as much profit in it as you think.

Yeah you can buy it out of the field for $2 a small square, or $4 or $5 or whatever... Then it has to be hauled ($$$), stored ($$$), rebaled ($$$), packaged ($$$), hauled to the distribution center for the store ($$$), stored some more ($$$), hauled out to the stores ($$$), and stocked ($$$).

Between each step is some sort of handling where a person lays hands on it, so ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$) ($$$).

The farmer is NOT getting $19.99 for a bale of straw. The farmer is getting $2 for a bale of straw, but that straw goes on to give about a dozen people jobs.
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This is absolutely correct in that the jobs provided make it well worth it. A homeowner buys a couple of these to put pumpkins on for Halloween and he/she will never miss the $40 (for 2 which I would guess is about average purchase). But the people working to put food on the family tables mean a lot to the country. Good for them! In fact, good for all involved including the farmer all the way through the purchasers.
 
Sounds like you have something against woman driving SUVs.
Would it be better if she drove a 4 door pickup?
 
(quoted from post at 08:11:10 10/04/21) $15/bale laying in the field? Thats good money they charge 5/bale u-bale here lately
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Due to the continuing drought all hay and straw is in big demand here and the prices reflect. I've heard talk of $200 for big round alfalfa bales. I don't normally sell straw but helping out a neighbour who needs it for the herd. Oat straw was dead ripe and broke up kind of bad through the combine. Hard to make a good bale.
I second cut a small patch of grass in the creek here but most of it was so short I could have used a lawn mower.

This post was edited by rusty6 on 10/04/2021 at 11:38 am.
 
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