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166 comments on DrumBeat: August 26, 2007

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SacredCowTipper on August 26, 2007 - 12:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Here in Iowa low till and no till practices have been the norm for the last twenty years. Anything that isn't being sold to the elevator is left on the field and gently tilled in for the next year.

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DelusionaL on August 26, 2007 - 1:06pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Wow! Good. Here in Oregon they take the wheat and then the straw for animal bedding. Same with grass seed(big crop for us here)

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SacredCowTipper on August 26, 2007 - 4:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Here they grow corn and soy beans in rotating. Wheat plantings are small and always grown to get the straw - the wheat itself is considered a by product. I'm sure its done differently in other parts of the world ... straw is a crop, too.

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