Anonymous-0

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Hi guys,
I am going to plant some grass water ways in my small fields on my hobby farm in minnesota. I have some spots that wash out on side hills. I would like to use oats as a nurse crop for the grasses I am planting. Can I just buy a bag of feed oats from the local farm store and plant them? Will they grow? Do I buy rolled oats or just plain oats? Thanks for your help.
 
Thanks guys for the reply. I know for most of you this is common knowledge to regrow oats not from certified seed. For some of us that are starting with nothing and not handed daddy's farm, it is still a learning process. I have asked simple questions here before and I really appreciate the grace and patience of the vast majority of you for a young and beginning farmer. Those with the sarcasm please don't reply. Keep it to yourself. This country has enough of that.
 
"Feed oats" will be just fine. You do not want them to be processed in any way...other than maybe cleaned. Rolled oats have literally been rolled through a crimper and it has mashed the germplasm which destroys the germination capability of the oat. It would be like trying to get "oatmeal" to grow. You will want to up the seding rate on "feed oats" to compensate for a perhaps lower germination rate on them. Good luck with your new seeding.
 
As they already mentioned, cleaned is good, processed oats are bad. I bought old (out of date) and discontinued, certified oats from a regional seed supplier for little more than "cleaned" seed from a feed store and I was sure this seed was weed free. Similar to your situation I used it for a cover crop. They were looking to clean out the warehouse so might be worth checking around. I thought it germinated fine, but can't be picky about varieties.
 
"not handed daddy"s farm" could be considered sarcastic by those who farm full-time, but started from scratch. goes both ways- LOL. Actually the concept of growing oatmeal is intriguing....eliminate the middle man.
 
i always used annual rye instead seems like came up quicker gets 7 ,8 inches tall then will just die out. it will not head out cause not winter cycle
 
I grow oats every year and use my seed from the last year for seed. The rest of the oats I sell as feed whole oats. It is easy to do a germ test. count out 100 seeds soak them for a few days in the refrigerator(to wake them up) put in a wet paper towel in the house and in 4 or five days you will see how well they germ. Only problem may be weed seeds meany people don't spray or control weeds well. But if they are cleaned that should get most of them. You can plant them as soon as it can be worked. They can take down to 28 degrees after they germ and will grow in cold soils.
 

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