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  • From: Sojourner <sojournr AT missouri.org>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Help with irrigation and mulch
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:58:33 -0600


Allan Balliett wrote:
>
> Straw goes for about $1.50 a bale around here, oat or wheat. What are folks
> paying for quantities to mulch a large garden with. (I realize that you are
> post-straw, I'm hoping someone else will share what they pay for straw! :-)

We can't get local straw, so we have to buy "imports" which run around
$4 a square bale.

Due to the drought, most farmers don't have local hay to sell. In a
non-drought year hay goes for a couple bucks a bale, but its $4 to $5 a
bale now.

--
Holly ;-D
Contrary Peasant
sojournr AT missouri.org




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