Extension at the University of Minnesota

Opportunity knocks for oats in Minnesota

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in 2025, oats accounted for only 195,000 planted acres in Minnesota, and those ...
Grand Island Independent

Oats an ideal crop to plant for cattle feed

I'd like to pass along this information from Bruce Anderson, UNL Extension forage specialist. Oats for extra pasture, hay and silage Pasture and hay could be sparse again this spring unless we receive ...
The Bismarck Tribune

Oat field now cattle feed

EMMONS COUNTY - Leonard Vetter lives in a shady oasis, under a grove of cottonwoods, amid chokecherry trees just ripe with fruit. Grasshoppers jump in the ditch along the gravel road in front of his ...
The Gazette

Midwest oat growers want a renaissance, but it will be hard without Big Ag

Martin Larsen (left) and Jess Offord (right) stand in the oat field and discuss the harvest on Aug. 3 in Byron, Minn. (Steven Garcia/Investigate Midwest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...
The Weekly Times

Falling feed grain prices reshape market

Grain markets across southern Australia remain flat, with oat prices down $100 a tonne since mid-December and by as much as $140 a tonne in 12 months, easing pressure across livestock rations despite ...