How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

tatermaster9000
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How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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I just harvested a soy bean field with my New Holland harvester (with a grain header). Google says it lays down straw behind it, however the New Holland combine harvester just spit out a spray/dust behind it. But unlike with my wheat or barley harvests, the spray dust did not collect in piles and so there's nothing for me to bale up.

Do I need another piece of equipment to somehow collect the straw from the soybeans being harvested?
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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No, soybeans don’t make straw.
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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Oh interesting, so is there anything I can do with what the harvester spits out on its backside (when harvesting soy)? What is that stuff called anyways?
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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Chaff and no.
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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I know this link is for FS19 but according to this:

https://guides.gamepressure.com/farming ... 7685#NH3_1

it sounds like I can use a Forage Harvester to harvest the soy and collect the chaff coming out? Do you know if this is true for FS20?
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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Chaff has two meanings, chaff like crop waste (what comes out of the combine) and chopped up crops in a forage harvester.
You can whole crop chop soybeans with the 2 headers that have Disc in their names, but you only get chaff and no grain.
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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Thanks for all these answers @DEERE317. Does the FS community have any official wiki or user's guide where I could learn all this stuff? I see a wiki off of Fandom but its not officially maintained or curated by Giants.
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Re: How to collect the straw from harvested soybeans?

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So when it comes to both FS 19 and FS 20 what falls out the back of the combine onto the ground is called STRAW. Only WHEAT, BARLEY, and OATS produce STRAW. CHAFF is what most North Americans refer to as the straw when it gets chopped up and spread out of the rear of the combine which happens when you combine every other crop beside Wheat, Barley, and Oats. However, most Europeans and Farming Simulator refer to CHAFF as the discharge you get when you use a forage harvester on a crop. What you are referencing that drops out of the back of the combine is STRAW which can be baled and sold for profit or used for animals. CHAFF is collected to turn into silage to either sell or use as feed for animals.
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