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Belleville, Ontario | The Western oats tend to weigh better because it is cooler when they are filling. They can yield just as good as we can in southern Ontario or better, and other crop revenues largely trump a decision to plant oats.
I was brought onto a farm 7 years ago near Toronto to help them grow Quaker quality oats and hit the bushel weight. We never missed bushel weight in the 5 years we grew them and we only sent 2 load to Quaker out of many loads. Reason being the horse feed mills paid better than Quaker and no politics at the scale.
You can polish oats up a couple lb, but like any crop it is hard to make garbage look very marketable. I have seen oats that weigh 22 lb/bu and oats that weigh 42 lb/bu. There is some effort to grow them well in Ontario. Have to fertilize, have to keep them healthy.
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Question on trucks crossing US/Canadian border
