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Steve, That was a fascinating bit of information in that link. When I first glanced at your response I assumed that it was a reference to the "mystery" roundup resistant wheat in Oregon. But no!! Roundup and other herbicides are actually harvest management tools, crop not drying out quick...

That is an interesting point. Isn't straw in this country primarily from wheat? If so according to the recent news stories there isn't supposed to be any "roundup ready" GMO strains in America's fields. So consequently unlike GMO corn and soybeans farmers shouldn't be spraying straw directly...

All of my trimmed out branches get thrown in the chicken run for stripping. After a day or two there are just bare branches, kinda skips the hand stripping part and goes straight to chicken****! Max

I have experienced just the opposite. Once I built up a good deep layer of woodchip mulch and straw the smell was dramatically reduced. I believe it is because the litter sucks the moisture out rapidly letting the chicken **** dry negating the smell. Then gravity takes it slowly to the bottom of...

I have the same issue, last year I planted 25 trees in a dense Backyard Orchard Culture type planting the ones at the bottom of the very gentle slope died do to wet feet. This year I put in 2'x2'x6" high raised beds and am mulching heavily on top of that with tree service chips. My new trees are...

I hope they don't feed steers lead in china!