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Week 2, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist is working on rice this week. Did you know rice is seeded from the air?
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Week 2, day 3, Rubber Boot Journalist starts work on a haylage article. Anyone know what haylage is? It’s rice straw that’s made into a kind of silage and the straw is the left over stubble after the straw is harvested. Anyone know what silage is? Check in tomorrow to find out.
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Week 2, day 4, Rubber Boot Journalist silage is pasture grass that has been ‘pickled’. Farmers raise corn and harvest and store it for silage. Here’s a video that shows the process. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWyC2ee1ESk Tomorrow’s topic walnuts and the drought.
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