Hoping it is dry enough to bale pine straw tomorrow.

[jekjr]

Should I keep it and sell the pine needles as they are? If I can gather them all up, that is.

I guess that it would depend on how you could market it. I have a press box baler and a rake I made to pull behind my lawn tractor. I have a couple of places that have told me that they will sell it on consignment for me locally here.

Regular straw like from a Slash or Loblolly or other types will bring $3.50 or more a bale. Longleaf will bring $5.00 per bale or more. IF you have a way to get it up and can market it 5 acres ought to be several hundred or more dollars possibly a thoudand or more dollars depending on what kind it is and where you can get rid of it...... I could get rid of probably several hundred bales of Longleaf right now if I could get it. If the weather ever dries up here I can get some other variety and intend to start the first day it is dry enough to bale. I wish I had 5 acres of planted Longleaf Pine here that was several years old and flat and I could gather straw in it. I could pay for the land in a very few years if it had straw like some places I have seen.

 

[SeniorCitizen]

Should I keep it and sell the pine needles as they are? If I can gather them all up, that is.

Ask the wife if it's OK to bale them in the trash compactor. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[jekjr]

Ask the wife if it's OK to bale them in the trash compactor. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I don't think that will work.:confused2:

 

[SeniorCitizen]

I don't think that will work.:confused2:

Sure it will, until you get caught. :laughing:

 

[Bomba]

Sure it will, until you get caught. :laughing:

Hahaha! Actually, my wife just bought a composter. I guess the pine straw will be going in there with the potato skins and the coffee grounds!