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Callao, Missouri | I raised 34# oats this year and everyone thought that was great for MO.
If you sell to horse people, they normally don't have a clue about oat test weight. They buy off appearance. If you sell anywhere else, they want a heavy oat.
My oats made 60bu/acre this year with perfect growing conditions but 1/2 of a stand. I am going to try interplanting soybeans into oats next year. It is true that oats like cool weather, but I also wonder if it's fungal diseases that really hurt southern oat growers. I hit mine with Quilt this year and they seemed healthy through maturity.
If you harvest with enough air to keep chaff out of the sample, you will blow a lot of oats over. If you seeded another annual for hay, volunteer oats would compliment this. It would be best if you could lightly till this somehow.
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Oats Followed by Hay
