Dealers sold hundreds of pellet stoves in the mid-valley. Baled straw was sent overseas, fortified with molasses, as stock feed. A California rose grower built pole barns outside of Sweet Home to warehouse straw bales until he could ship them to his rose gardens for use as mulch. Attempts were made to compost the straw bales. Stock raisers used the straw for bedding.
Many farmers simply chop up the remaining straw and plow it under for the next year's crop.