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Hay is generally cut from fallow fields in late summer/early fall. It contains sugars in the stalks as well as the seeds/grain of whatever grasses it is cut from. It is used to feed livestock year round and is the primary feed in winter. It is often supplemented by grain or feed.
Straw is basically an industrial byproduct and is the leftover stalk from grain harvesting. Usually produced from wheat after harvest. Used as bedding.
Hay is for fodder; straw is for bedding and thatching.
Call me a hippie all you want, but I usually go back to Pink Floyd lyrics when I get confused which one to use.
“Straw you, out there in the cold…” Just doesn’t sound right.
There was a Beatles song about the straw man logical fallacy, wasn’t there?
Straw Jude
I usually go with hayberry fields.
Getting lonely, getting old
Man. Love Pink Floyd.
Getting lonely getting old, can you feel me?
Hay is for horses.
Straw is for soda.
hay is for horses, straw is for hats
Hay’s the best.
hay is for horses
And cows like you!
Straw is shaped like a straw…
Hay is like grass, it basically is grass really.
Yea, hay is a generic term for grasses used as feed.
Ok, so if you pull up the entire plant, you get the roots, stem and leaves. I guess straw would be another word for the stem and hay for the leaves.
From different plants. Straw is from, I think, cereals (wheat, barley, etc) whereas hay is from grass(es?).
Different plants. Got it.
Hay is for horses, and straw is for mcdonalds cups…which apperently now employs slave labor.
I know everyone that follows this link is guna be like:
“wtf, who posts an entire hour long comedy special in a thread about being uninformed about faming? You couldn’t time stamp the relevant joke?!?!”
To which I will reply:
“I did time stamp the relevant part of the special. Jokes on you cuz it’s a whole fucking hour long joke about not knowing anything about farming!”
Its so funny by itself but its better when you know it was all done in front of an audience chalk full of local farmers. I found it getting ready for a road trip with my 3 y/o niece in the car and was shocked at how laugh out loud funny it was while also being completely G rated. Dude doesn’t even say the Simpson’s swear words: shit, damn or crap.
Hay is green, livestock eat it. Straw is yellow, livestock sleep in it.
