Wheat Straw Properties 🌾
Straw is used as one of the important sources of food in the livestock and agriculture industry and plays an essential role in feeding animals and their growth. This edible material is obtained from their residues after harvesting crops such as wheat, barley, and corn sprouts. Straw is often used as an economically useful resource to meet the nutritional needs of livestock, especially during periods of scarcity of feed resources. Also, the use of straw can help reduce wastage and optimal use of agricultural waste, while also contributing to the added value and profitability of the livestock sector. In this regard, it is very important to introduce and use straw as an effective and beneficial food source in meeting the nutritional needs of livestock and increasing productivity in the livestock industry.
Different Consignment of Straight 🌾
Due to the high content of fiber (mainly cellulose and lignin) in it, straw has a very limited edible ability for humans and monogastric animals (such as poultry), but for ruminant animals, it has a significant edible ability that is beneficial to microorganisms. symbionts return to their digestive system.
Also, crop straw has various non-edible uses in rural communities that rely on agriculture. Various uses can be imagined from rural construction materials such as flower straw, use as livestock and poultry bedding, production of fertilizer and baskets and mats to use as fuel for straw obtained from agriculture. Of course, nowadays new applications such as bio carbon production and carbon filters made from it are also being researched and developed for this type of products.
different types of agricultural straw 🌾
The most famous and major type of straw obtained from agricultural activity includes wheat straw, which will be the main focus of this article, but different types of straw are produced in significant quantities around the world, from products such as Rice, barley, oats, rye and triticale, sorghum and dicotyledons or legumes such as beans, peas, soybeans, etc. are obtained. Accordingly, three main groups of products are known as straw. The first group includes dry leaves and stalks of cereals such as wheat, barley and oats, which are used in countries with climates. Suitable for rice cultivation, rice straw is also added to this group, and the general title of straw is usually given to this group without mentioning the name of the plant from which it is produced.
Second group It includes cereal straw or monocotyledons with larger plants such as corn, sorghum and millet, which are among the major fibrous by-products of agriculture with relatively wide applications in different countries.
the third group in most cases consists of straw obtained from plants of the dicotyledonous or leguminous family, which includes various plants including peas, beans, lentils and oilseeds such as rapeseed, peanuts, soy, sesame And... or tuberous plants such as potatoes and of course plants producing textile fibers such as hemp, linen and cotton are included. Harvesting straw from a large portion of these plants may not be as easy as harvesting wheat or barley straw. Because, it is better to harvest them in wetter weather or when the plant has a higher moisture content. If these products are not harvested at the right time and with the right timing to create the greatest coincidence between the best time to harvest the main product (seed) and the secondary product (straw), or if they are harvested earlier than the right time, they will suffer from yield loss or suffer from drought. And there is a lot of color change and they will have a lot of falling and crushing when harvesting, which greatly increases the wastage of the produced straw product.
The benefits of straw for livestock feed 🌾
Cereal straw (especially wheat straw) has always been a constant part of bedding and animal feed, but its use has its own challenges and advantages, which are mainly related to the physical and chemical characteristics of this product.
>It is based on this that the use of cereal straw (especially wheat straw) as a large part of livestock ration can reduce the supply of necessary nutrients for livestock (especially in the stage of lactation and high production livestock), increase the loss of nutrients through excrement and excrement. Of course, as mentioned before, these challenges do not make the use of straw in animal nutrition lose its place. Even today, straw is one of the common food ingredients to create optimal conditions in livestock. For this reason, it is common to use straw in the ration of the dry period, in addition to controlling the amount of energy received by this group of cows, the anion-cation balance of the ration and the amounts of minerals such as potassium and calcium are controlled so that the possibility of milk fever in the period after reduce from childbirth. Of course, the use of anionic salts is also recommended as a complement to the use of straw in the ration of dry cows in order to help the cows' bodies to prepare for childbirth and lactation and to prevent shock (leading to milk fever). In addition to these cases, the use of straw in the rations of the dry period through the filling effect on the rumen reduces the possibility of digestive problems such as displacement of teats during this period.