That looks like straw from the pic.

Set some pumpkins on them.

I did think about putting them in the front yard for Halloween but that's a ways off yet and it's supposed to rain some next week. They've been inside a shed for goodness knows how long so are quite dry. Do you think they would like some rain? I don't really know anything about straw, but I don't want it to rot.

Some would be stored for years.

If you plan on spreading it out in a few weeks, it will not hurt it to get wet. Just don't spread if it is moldy.

Straw is the byproduct of threshing wheat, in which the seeds are removed, leaving the stalks. Straw is useful for many purposes-- as a winter mulch, slow composting, insulation and bedding for animal enclosures, etc.

Hay is dried grasses, and often includes the seed heads. It's used as feed.

When you put hay on the ground, those seed heads do what nature intended.

So the difference matters.

helpfully,
Bright

Marsh grass propagates by rhizome, so there's no seed in a marsh grass bale of "straw". Hay would have seeds, Straw, much less.

It is tightly bound so unlikely to burn. Perfect to mulch over your newly sown grass seed.

This was kind of an important thing for me to decide on. You all came through, with great advice. Which is why I asked here. You guys are the awesomenest!!

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If you can pick it up easily it is probably straw. I have never picked up a light bale of hay. It looks like straw but you never know.

It should be fine. I have an entire barn full of hay that is combustible if you are not careful who and how they bale it but I have never heard that about straw. It might be true but my guess is you are just fine.