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Spring oats combine a food with recognised health benefits and a crop that leaves the soil in good heart. CPM explores the agronomic value and market prospects of the crop and the leading varieties available for 2021. We have extraordinarily good feedback from commercial mills – they’ve been euphoric. By Tom Allen-Stevens A crop that roots voraciously, bringing soil health benefits, that competes well against blackgrass and produces a food with recognised human health benefits – what’s not to like about oats? “With the trend for more spring cropping, widening of rotations and less reliance on oilseed rape as a break, and with prospects for spring barley perhaps not as good as they were, spring oats are gaining favour,” notes Saaten Union UK cereals product manager Andrew Creasy. “There’s strong demand, especially for milling oats, and unlike some other spring breaks, it’s a crop growers are familiar with. What’s more, the varieties now available do present growers with a nice range of options to fulfil some of the market opportunities.” Oats cover the ground quickly, competing against blackgrass, says Andrew Creasy, and they leave a good tilth. Andrew markets cereal varieties on behalf of Elsoms, who have an exclusive…
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