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Buy ORGANIC OATS for Cover Crop and Growing Grain for Food and Forage

The recommended planting rate for oats planted for grain is 60 to 90 pounds per acre. The recommended planting rate for oats planted for forage is 90 to 120.

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Type of Oat

If you need multiple bags or tonnage call us for pricing and freight.

All organic grains are selling out fast and some are already gone for 2008. If you want to buy some do it now. Tomorrow may be too late.

Oats by the Pound
1 Bag
  • 1 bag weighs 48lbs
  • 1 bag equals 1.5 bushels
2 Bags
Organic Morton Oats

Late maturity, High yield, Tall, Very Good lodging resistance, Very High test weight, medium groat percentage. Ivory Seed. Good resistance to crown rust and smut, some tolerance to red leaf. Selected at North Dakota in 2001.

Reeves Oats - Organic
  • Certified Blue Tag
  • Stand better than Riser
  • Reeves is a tall, early oat with good disease resistance
  • In Iowa it averaged 126 Bu/acre, 21.1 bushels more than Riser
  • Not a good choice for rich soil as it can get too tall and lodge over
  • Released by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station in 2002
  • Test weight slightly lower than Jerry, but higher than other released varieties
  • Good choice for less than perfect soil or planting with other tall forage or green manures
  • Reeves oats have the best test weight of any oat tested in minnisota and Iowa for 3 years
  • It is medium height and is moderately resistant to both crown rust and barley yellow dwarf virus
  • This early maturing white colored line has excellent yield potential compared to other early varieties
(NEW) Organic Cover Crop Oats
  • Variety Not Stated for liscensing reasons
  • Use for plow down, grain or feed
Organic Certified Esker Oats
  • Stands well
  • Good test weight
  • Certified Blue Tag
  • Medium height oat
  • Medium maturity oat
  • Strong disease package
  • Best organic option for under seeding
  • Averages 144 Bu/acre in U of IA testing
Sold Out for 2007

Agronomy

Oats are sown in the spring, as soon as the soil can be worked. An early start is crucial to good yields as oats will go dormant during the summer heat. Oats are cold-tolerant and will be unaffected by late frosts or snow. Typically about 100 kg/hectare (about 2 bushels per acre) are sown, either broadcast or drilled in 150 mm (6 inch) rows. Lower rates are used when underseeding with a legume. Somewhat higher rates can be used on the best soils with some varieties. Excessive sowing rates will lead to problems with lodging and may reduce yields with some varieties. Buy the variety that's best suited to your soil.

Winter oats may be grown as an off-season groundcover and plowed under in the spring as a green fertilizer.

Oats remove substantial amounts of nitrogen from the soil. If the straw is removed from the soil rather than being ploughed back, there will also be removal of large quantities of potash which can be replaced with the use of Jersey Greensand.

Usually 50-100 kg/hectare (50-100 pounds per acre) of nitrogen is needed. A sufficient amount of nitrogen is particularly important for plant height and hence straw quality and yield. When the prior-year crop was a legume, or where ample manure is applied, nitrogen rates can be reduced somewhat. Rotating a bean or pea crop or planting companions are a good idea if you don't need a pure stain of oats for cutting.

The vigorous growth habit of oats will tend to choke out most weeds. A few tall broadleaf weeds, such as ragweed, goosegrass and buttonweed (velvetleaf), can be a problem occasionally especially as they complicate harvest. Good cultivation practices, timing the planting and careful attention to soil fertility and pH can minimie this problem.

DIRT WORKS Links for Organic and Non-GMO Seed

Please include complete delivery address and phone number in your e-mail if you're writing for a shipping quote on large orders of forage and grain seed. If you don't see the variety you want, call. We have a long list of organic seed available that is too numerous to list. The varieties shown in the web site are those I beleive will fit most any requirement, but, I know there are nitch environments and special needs out there.

When ordering seed, plan as far ahead as possible and know as much about the seed you wish to buy before you order it. Each farm has different soil, climates and equipment constraints, and you know best what you need. If you don't, call us and we'll help you make a selection to to the best of our ability. Thanks, John

  • Some organic grains are in short supply this year due to a few emerging problems. The biofuels industry is competeing with land otherwise used for planting of food crops.
  • Emerging markets in Africa and Asia are putting s strain on supply and crop failures of already scarce crops are a problem too.
  • GMO crops are contaminating some farmer's lands and the corporations are tying them up in court preventing them from producing new seed. Download By Clicking Here
  • Whenever possible we are substituting non-GMO, untreated conventional seeds on our pages where you would ordinarily find organic seed.

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