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Straw is light and they are the stem of oats or wheat. After they
combine the grain from the ends you are left with the shafts
Hay is heavy and is basically long grass they cut down with everything
else that grows with it.
Straw is used for bedding.
Hay is used for food.
Usually straw is the most weed free.

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Charlie wrote:

Maybe we were only allowed to play in the Hay then! I can't remember very
well. Ah yes, because we used to help pack the hay for "bunny bags". Yah,
it was the straw we weren't allowed to play in! Sorry!

Charlie.

"Aaron Baugher" wrote in message
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"Charlie" writes:



Yup, they're two different plants. Both can sprout, but IMHO straw
is more likely too (If I remember right).


Nope, that's backwards. Hay almost always has seeds; good clean straw
does not. Here's my dissertation on the subject, posted to this group
last fall:




http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...i.esc.pike.il.
us


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Aaron






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