[Tennessee Conservative]

We have a lot of animal feed stores. This is farm country. I’ll check around. Thanks!

[MomwithHope]

Feed stores here typically have a bulletin board too with people who sell. We used oat straw for 25 years for our dairy goats. It is soft and comfortable for bedding. It is pricier but if you only need one bale probably in the 5 buck range. We no longer have goats but I still buy 1 bale yearly for our compost pile. Pic of oat straw - Pic of wheat straw -

[spokeshave]

If you have any animal feed stores nearby you could check with them. They would have customers that grow oats and would probably have straw.

Not only that...but if you need straw for protecting plants...or as a filler on a muddy driveway;

The feedstore usually has a barn where the straw bales are located.

The barn floor gets clogged up with straw from the bales...usually swept up and discarded.

We used to use it as bedding in the goat shed.