If you plan to sell the crop, check with your local sale barn or hay auction to find out what buyers are looking for and what prices to expect. Then tailor your crop to what buyers want. Marketing your crop can be just as important to your profits as being an efficient producer is.
If there are horse people in your area there might be good demand for oats straw and oats as a grain. If your growing season is long enough to grow oats for grain, the grain and straw should be worth more than as oats hay alone. If you will only have the ground for one year, I wouldn't add the expense of seeding hay with the oats unless the landlord will compensate you for it. Otherwise sow for maximum oats production.
Not having a combine is not a problem if you can hire one. Plan that combining will be done on the owner's schedule, often first come, first served, so sign up early. Depending on which head is on the combine, cutting oats into windrows before combining instead of direct cutting can reduce some of your your exposure to bad weather.
If you produce oats hay, plan to use it or sell it earlier than you would sell regular hay. Oats hay really attracts mice, voles, and other rodents from surrounding fields. If you keep oats hay until the spring peak in hay price, when you try to load it you might find several burrows through every bale and the sisal twine chewed through on a high percentage of bales. Don't be surprised to see mice dropping out of bales as you load and as you deliver the bales. Plastic twine is a must for moving oats hay, if the buyers will accept plastic twine.
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