• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    Hay is mowed from a meadow. It’s fine natural dried long grass with occasional herbs and flowers. It’s still greenish.

    Straw is the rough homogenous stalk leftovers of mowing agricrultural plants like rye or wheat.

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      This is correct. Hay can be used as fodder for animals, whereas straw cannot. It can be used for many other purposes, however, like animal bedding, building material, decorating your suburban yard in fall…