Posted by JD Seller on December 29, 2013 at 17:07:46 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: profit growing oats posted by Brian806 on December 29, 2013 at 15:16:27:
IF the land is paid for and you don't need much return from the land then you can break even with oats.
IF you can grow high test weight oats that will meet the food requirements(Quaker Oats, Cedar Rapids) then there is SOME profit in oats. If they don't make grade and you have just livestock feed oats then your going to be lucky to break even.
A good straw market will help but that is more labor too.
There used to be a lot of oats planted around me here. Now you only see them as a nurse crop for new hay stands.
To get the real high quality oats you just about have to windrow them when they have some moisture in them. Then use a pickup head on your combine to thrash them.
With the average cash rent being in the $350-450 range here oats just will not show a profit or even a break even here.
For real good oats you need to get them planted as early as possible, usually mid to early March here. Then you want a little rain and a slightly dry spring. Oats like most cereal grains do not like high moisture. There are too many deceases that effect them when you have high humidity.
I don't think PA is a real good oat growing area. Your soils are clay based for the most part and oats like dry feet. Plus you usually have high humidities in the late spring and summer months. Right when the oats want warm/dry weather not hot humid weather. That is way you see oat being grown in the northern areas most of the time. They usually do not have hot humid springs and early summers.
Right now if your renting ground you are going to be stuck in a corn and soybean rotation for the short term. IF the grain prices come down and land cost comes down then you may be able to work oats into a rotation. IF you do raise any you really should have livestock as a backup plan if the weather makes the oats be of low quality. You can at least fed them up. There is not a good oat market. You can't just drive to town and sell them anytime, it takes planning.
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