Posted 12/31/2025 17:38 (#11491255 - in reply to #11490693) Subject: RE: Growing oats, good oats
NW IA
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I do NOT like to spread manure prior to oats. Weeds, compaction and lodging come together here.
I also prefer seeding clover or Nitrogen alfalfa with the oats. Here it could be a deal-breaker trying to get the N fixer up and running- too wet or more likely too dry.
I added pics of the red clover sewn with the oats in March of 2024 on September 21 and at the time of baling on October 1.
I don't have pictures from this year, and admittedly it wasn't as good because the oats got soaked in the wind-row by a pop-up cloudburst followed by a couple of weeks of hyper high humidity.
The missing windrows in the pic had been small square baled.
Growing oats, good oats
