WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Oats are just another crop to get rid of now, along with every other grain. Now millers are dropping their price for oat products to their customers as the end users see the drop ...

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in 2025, oats accounted for only 195,000 planted acres in Minnesota, and those ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Oats was Martin Larsen’s most profitable crop in 2022. In fact, he says his 2022 oats crop was his most profitable crop ever. “So in 2022, we had a phenomenal market here,” Larsen ...

FARGO, N.D. - Michael McMullen, veteran oats breeder at North Dakota State University, has this answer when asked about working with a crop that doesn’t get much attention. “I like to work for the ...

Recent consumer popularity has raised the oats profile in the United States, which is the world’s largest importer of the crop. Oats futures have been in place since 1877, and briefly matched corn ...

Cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.) is an old crop thought to have been domesticated over 3,000 years ago, while growing as a weed in wheat and barley fields. Oat has a low carbon footprint, substantial ...

Finland is a global oat powerhouse, and new genetic research is helping to secure the future of this key crop for food, ...

Complexity of the oat’s DNA has long resisted detailed study; this first-ever oat pangenome was built by an international consortium that included researchers at McGill’s Macdonald Campus. Researchers ...

Researchers have traced the remaining last steps of the biological pathway that gives oats resistance to the deadly crop disease take-all. Researchers have traced the remaining last steps of the ...