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Rebecca Norman wrote:What is your purpose for growing them? Fodder or human food?
Travis Johnson wrote:I have grown oats small scale (10 acres) using pretty primitive equipment with good success.
The results were surprisingly amazing.
In fact the results were so good that I have designed a low cost thresher for my 25 hp Kubota Tractor, and am in hopes to be starting its build soon. I was actually working on the design all morning, and opted to take a break and come on here.
C. West wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:I have grown oats small scale (10 acres) using pretty primitive equipment with good success.
The results were surprisingly amazing.
In fact the results were so good that I have designed a low cost thresher for my 25 hp Kubota Tractor, and am in hopes to be starting its build soon. I was actually working on the design all morning, and opted to take a break and come on here.
what kind of yield per acre did you get?
Grady Houger wrote:It worked, so I'd say that's a good method Travis.
The world sure does need a better selection of mini threshing equipment.
Hulless oats sound like the way to go for anyone not scaling up to industrial equipment.
For fertilizer and yield goals, these documents have good guidelines if you are going to get a soil test and put the work into evaluating how much nitrogen is available in your organic matter. But oats don't need a lot, so you could just go for it and see what happens. If your soil is seriously deficient it will show already in whats growing there.
One of the tips is that oats will germinate in cold soil, so they can be planted early enough to get a headstart and crowd out the weeds if everything goes well.
https://www.extension.uidaho.edu/publishing/pdf/CIS/CIS1135.pdf
http://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Oat-Production-Guide.pdf
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