Straw has many uses, as feed, roughage, animal bedding, but
these requirements are not sufficient to utilize the available production.
In areas where grasskseed is produced, post-harvest straw is
burned in the field to help prevent crop disease the following year.
This treatment is very wasteful in terms of straw...
Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) is a major seed crop
in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Persistent crop diseases have
necessitated annual field burning to protect future crops. This practice,
while very effective for disease eradication, produces large
quantities of air polluting smoke in the valley and a general wastage
of...
Published September 1942. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog