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Latimer Iowa | If you are getting $10 a bushel it must be some sort of specialty market. How sensitive is that market to gluten contamination? If gluten contamination or standards are even mentioned, or if market has anything to do with human or pet food food, find a different field or don’t do it. You will end up with cattle feed, if you are lucky. Dockage schedules for gluten start anywhere a market dictates, and while some markets have the ability to clean most contamination out, they generally are not afraid to dock for anything. Know the US standard for final product contamination is 20 ppm. Assuming 1M seeds per bushel of oats that is only 20 pieces of grain/rye seed in an entire bushel.
I am not familiar enough with fall oats to give a recommendation on trying to control ryegrass. Any grass infestation makes it hard to grow oats if it comes up at the same time or later then oats. We fight foxtail up here in spring oats. Planting thicker, up to 4.5M seeds per acre, narrow row spacing or diamond planting, good seeding equipment, and planting the oats early so they get ahead of grass are all things we do. In your case maybe disk it immediately and then every couple weeks till planting to try and get as much rye to germinate while you can still kill it with tillage? Annual ryegrass has a reputation of being hard to kill and a bit of a weed. Ryegrass is a pretty broad definition of a plant too, I am thinking annual ryegrass that can be planted for cover crops, being in Georgia you may be thinking something like what is on a lawn? Personally, this sounds like a disaster in the making that will be using your contingency plan of cutting for hay.
Edited by Green Acres Guy 10/14/2025 06:22
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Planting oats into ryegrass infested field
