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Originally Posted by clkeiper
. farmers actually spray it with roundup to kill it off then till it under and it helps to then release the weed killing benefits of it.
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I would suspect the farmers use a longer lasting herbicide. Round-up quickly becomes benign and would not be useful after a few hours.
I use wheat straw that has been baled after the wheat has been harvested. Not many farmer friends grow wheat around here any more so it is difficult to find. Oat and barley straw is also getting to be rare. A local hardware store gets piles of straw bales and I have had to resort to buying them some years. The store-bought have more weed seeds in them.