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Whatever your needs are, we will strive to meet them and provide you good quality hay at fair market price. The straw we bale is typically wheat straw, which is generally softer and more desirable for bedding. If there is a demand for it, we will also bale barley straw.
Easy to handle and convenient for storing. We produce our straw from premium barley or wheat. It’s a great option for animal bedding, composting and chicken coops. Find a retailer near you.
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Oats, with a weaker straw than wheat or barley, sometimes presents additional harvesting problems. Wind, hail, rain, insects, and plant stress may cause lodging, increased harvesting cost and reduced grain quality.
Breeding and Research - Barley breeding for the state is centered at Dallas, with additional testing locations at Amarillo, Beaumont, Beeville, Chillicothe, Gainesville, Howe, McGregor, Overton, Prosper, Uvalde, and Wyndom. Breeding priorities are forage and grain yield, winterhardiness, straw strength, and pest resistance.
At one point in time, barley was grown on nearly 600,000 acres in Texas (NASS, 2014), but acres steadily decreased to roughly 15,000 acres by the end of the century (1999 final year reported by NASS).
Recently, however, an interest in malt barley, the type used by the brewing industry, has been observed in Texas, especially in the Blacklands region. Field evaluations in malt barley in Texas started in 2013 with the overall goal of establishing the feasibility of barley production for malting and distilling in the state. This publication
