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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Certified Organic Certified Jerry Oats are a blue tag variety that are a medium tall oat with high test weights and are medium high in protein. Certified Organic Certified Jerry oats were developed by the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and released in 1994. Jerry oats have high groat percent and whole oat proetein. Jerry oats are moderately susceptible to barley yellow dwarf virus and crown rust and are moderately resistant to stem rust.

When Spring Planted you can achieve 15-16% Protein Level (that is higher than corn) Oats are used for hay, cover crop or the oats themselves.

Oats grow quick in cool, moist conditions. Plant in early spring as soon as the earth can be worked or fall when soil temperatures at the surface have cooled from summer heat. Fall crops may not grow to maturity depending on your climate but will work well as fall cover crops and quick forage.

Hulless oats are a must for homesteaders because they have so many uses. Hulless oats are perfect because no expensive de-hulling machine is needed to remove the hull. Hulless oats are perfect for breakfast, in muffins or bread. You can feed the entire oat stock to horses, goats or sheep for a high protein meal or till them under to improve soil crumb structure and add organic matter. You can thresh and feed the seed to chickens and poultry. There is no better way to fatten up broilers or pigs. Sprouted oat seeds can be used for salads and sandwiches or use them as fresh sprouted greens for poultry.

An 18 month study conducted in 1998 by the AAFC Research Centre in Lennoxville, QC concluded that hulless oats could replace both corn and the protein supplement in dairy rations with no impact on milk yield or components.

Use the hay for the compost pile or as animal feed to ruminants. Bailed oat straw from any variety of oats is a good second crop to sell at a premium into the organic gardening market as it works wonders on the soil and suppresses weeds when used as a cover between the rows and around the vegetable plants.

• Very good yield for a hulless variety
• Medium height with good lodging resistance and very high test weight.
• Susceptible to crown rust and red leaf, but resistant to smut.
• 98 - 128 lbs/ acre

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.

Some farmers are experimenting planting oats and winter rye together as a forage or plow down cover crop.

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 or some Meta-K. Rotate with legumes to restore nitrogen levels in the soil.

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 minimize this problem.