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Best oats for sandy central mn soils?

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Dave from central MN

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Putting in 57 acres of oats on a light soiled field. Have only done oats once, 10 years ago. Goal of the planting is for decent test weight oats so they can be banked for feed and or partially sold at Co-op. Deent straw is secondary. Seems Jerry oats are common, hear good and bad about horsepower. Any other advice? Hoping to get seeded by this weekend. I'm under the impression of fertilizing after about 4-6" tall. These are going into corn stubble that will be disked in. assuming 3BPA seeding is adequate. Feel free to educate me.
 
One question on that crop.

Do you have a local market?

I am in Eastern Iowa, 10 miles from quaker oats, have to haul all oats to Chicago to market.
 
Be careful with discing them in as they can easily get too deep. Put the furtilizer on first and disc that in being careful with nitrogen or the oats will lodge badly. Buying a short stem oats helps with that. Otherwise I can't help with brand.
 
Even as a catch crop to the left over nitrogen from the corn I would think lodging might be a concern. Maybe not in sandy soil though.
 
I raise Jerry Oats here in Wyoming,, I get 45-48 lbs test weights with them (more to this than how they grow I found out lol) I like them as the stems seem a bit tougher and they stand well for me against wind ect,, last year I raised them we had a near perfect growing season, 125-150 bpa a bumper crop for sure here, I use no commercial fert as I summer fallow here, a couple pics from that harvest
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I have planted deon for a couple years usually a 35 pound test weight tall oat with a 60-80 bushel yeild late season varity seems like a fairly rust resistant variety
 
Are you seeding just oats for a cash crop or is the oats a cover crop for next years hay? Will you combine the oats as standing oats or will they be windrowed to speed drying and reduce lodging?
 
3 BPA was the norm here when planting with the drill. They do like their nitrogen, but when they grow too tall, seems they'll down just before you want to harvest. We used guard extensions on the grain head to recover downed crops, it worked well actually.

I've planted them by broadcasting after plowing and making on pass with the disc harrowm higher populations for the oat grass in food plots. Never noticed any germination trouble as my depth was uniform an obviously not too deep, that you don't want.
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Doing on shares, oats will be stored at local elevator to use in starter/grower ration to avoid paying $5/bu they would resell it for in feed. Straw would be 50% sold I'm assuming. Will probably be selling some also for local horse market
 
I have good luck with Jerry here in So. central Mn. Our soil is heavy black tho. I always put mine following beans rather then corn. Seams the rotting stalks rob to much nitrogen.
 
42-48 lb oats is not uncommon in out area at least. Gotta be careful with fertilizer and population to
get it tho.
 

Make sure you have a market for any you wish to sell. Neighbor had a semi load last year and had to beg them to take them at Duluth. Local elevators were not buying any oats at the time, period.
 
Heard good things on Horsepower, was not impressed 2 years ago.

Planted Deon last year, for miserable condtions it did well.

Years ago Troy was a good one, don't see it any more.

I'm in wet clay soils, so might not relate to your conditions.

Paul
 
I planted Deon on a sandy spot. About 10 acres worth. Test wt was 39-40 and I got 100 bu per acre. I did spray a fungicide on it. This area gets little to anything for beans and the ears of corn are to small- the go right through the stripper plates. I was very happy with Deon. Going to try again this year and come back with field peas after to see if I can get a cutting of hay from the regrowth.
 
Trick I learned is you blow out the light ones and only save the heavy kernels been doing this for many years, same way with Barley, it ok not to believe me it is hard to think a old hippie can actually be a farmer,, been called a liar before but it is a fact, light oats here do not sell,, I can take a hint no more post here from me all is good
 
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