Oats acreage going up big time.

[wakopa]

Our elevator tries to time a train close to when we combine our oats so we don't have to bin much .

[grassfarmer]

I've got quite a bit of storage if oats is going to be sub $2/bu - bins and cattle LOL.

[biglentil]

Yup. Peas-oats-wheat-canola

no fuzz

Easy on the land too. No cut worm issues


Make a big pile... just make sure you can get rid of it in one year

She'd blow to winepeg in one of our famous wind storms.

[seldomseen]

Oats is most often is our best netting crops. If you get them up and growing before any big rains they will then grow and yield good even if is a wet summer. Bin space is always the problem unless you like bags and ravens like that idea. I don't like to sell then for less than 2.50 but if you have then in bags and spring is coming you might have to sell them. Any time they are over 3.00 its good.

[ajl]

Oat prices would be much lower right now if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of oats were left out in the field in this area. Many of those fields were 120+. If they had been harvested, oats would be $2 right now and there would be no oat frenzy right now.

[jcv]

Oats do get fusarium, just not as big of grading factor as other crops. While not as bad as wheat or barley can be an issue. Certainly would be a carrier to carry spores for subsequent wheat and barley crops. Corn is another cereal that is a huge carrier for fuzz, but is seldom looked at as it is not often a grading factor.

[Guest]

Yup. Peas-oats-wheat-canola

no fuzz

Easy on the land too. No cut worm issues


Make a big pile... just make sure you can get rid of it in one year

One of the $10/ac agrologist farming experts here told friend not to grow wheat after oats because of disease. He did anyways and had 6% fus in his wheat. Have you ever heard of this ?

[farmaholic]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...hold your horses! So no fus, vomi, T-2 or HT-2 in oats? Can't it penetrate the hull and get at the groat? Should make all the granola munching yuppies happy. Feed Trigger all the oats you want? And don't worry about feeding the kids Honey Nut Cheerios.

Industry doesn't have to look for an excuse to downgrade on account of the above listed factors. ....oats is ****en cheap enough!

[grefer]

I cant help thinking a year from now another cropping option will disappear because oat prices will be in the toilet. Some things never change.

[seldomseen]

Another thing to consider with oats is that some company's are not accepting oats that have been sprayed with glyphosate. Swathing is good but almost always deer and elk will come in and crap on the swaths and that crap becomes a problem!