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Re:Be careful how you pay the bills by dghughes on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:31PM (#32173802)
Every fall my grandfather and many others would travel to harvest wheat in the Canadian prairies. This was before tractors were a thing or common. Quite a few people were affected when one tractor could cut more hay than a dozen men could.
Re:Be careful how you pay the bills by throwaway742 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:50PM (#32174444)
Pedantic I know (this is HN after all), but I think that would be considered straw not hay.
Re:Be careful how you pay the bills by 8note on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:48PM (#32174832)
Looking at https://ilfbpartners.com/farm/farm-facts/hay-vs-straw-whats-...

Straw is inaccurate because said grandfather is doing the harvest, not cleaning up after the harvest

Re:Be careful how you pay the bills by throwaway742 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:00AM (#32175638)
Friend you are wrong. Hay is harvested green. It says straw is the byproduct of harvesting wheat i.e. what your grandfather was doing. You could have wheat hay, but you would have to harvest early. No one is going to do that.
Re:Be careful how you pay the bills by dghughes on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:36AM (#32213886)
It was wheat as stated.

But my analogy of hay being cut by men vs machinery was just that an example.