for the purposes of this disclosure will be oriented such that the longer edges are substantially vertical and the shorter edges are substantially horizontal in this orientation said straw fibers will assume a generally horizontal orientation said strawboard panels have a tackable surface i e are suitable for securely accepting nails tacks screws and other connecting means for attaching and or hanging items from the strawboard panel surfaces further surfaces of the strawboard panels are suitable for accepting surface texture paint wall paper and other conventional wall coverings strawboard panels can be factory finished with surface texture paint wall paper and the like or said surface treatments can easily be applied to a finished wall compressed strawboard panels are typically much thicker and stronger than gypsum board and possess higher nail pull values thus providing nails screws or the like driven therein to support more weight than if driven into gypsum board additionally said strawboard panels possess sound insulating properties superior to both conventional gypsum board walls and many currently available commercial interior partition systems solid core strawboard panels further provide fire resistant properties superior to materials used in many presently available interior wall construction and partition systems to enhance flexibility these strawboard panels can be cut.