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Cob: East Timor ProjectJohn Fordice otherfish at home.comWed Oct 27 16:09:00 CDT 1999
Rosemary, Rice straw is a big problem here in California. The rice growers burn it to be rid of it, but recently there have been laws passed to limit this in order to control the resulting air pollution. As a consequence, growers are searching for other outlets for the rice straw. Bales of it are readily available here & I & other folks have used it for the straw in cob. It's a bit more difficult to work with ( you just need to pay more attention to introducing iit evenly into the mix). Other than that, it works fine & in my opinion makes excellent cob. It might be that the Timor rice production also can provide rice straw - all other things being equal, it ought to be a very good source for the straw in any cob made there. Question: how do the Timorese handle the straw resulting from their rice production? Is it at all mechanized? Do the produce bales? john fordice Rosemary Lyndall Wemm wrote: > Another limitation is that the major crops are rice and corn; there is > no wheat to make hay straw. What kind of substitutes could be used? > > - Rosemary > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > _--_|\ Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM > Perth/ \ lyndall at wemm.org > -->\_.--._/ http://www.neurognostics.com.au > -------------- v ------------------------------------------
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