- About Agriculture
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Grains and Other Crops
- Grain Industry Profile
- Crop Production
- Victorian Winter Crop Summary
- Balansa Clover
- Bioethanol in Victoria
- Decimal Growth Scale of Cereals
- Effect of Frost on Cereal Grain Crops
- Establishing Puccinellia
- Estimating Crop Yields; A Brief Guide
- Estimating Crop Yields and Crop Losses
- Growing Barley
- Growing Canola
- Growing Cereal Rye
- Growing Chickpea
- Growing Faba Bean
- Growing Field Pea
- Growing Lentil
- Growing Linseed and Linola
- Growing Lupin
- Growing Oat
- Growing Soybean
- Growing Triticale
- Growing Wheat
- Harvesting Forage Cereals
- Identification of Cereal Seedlings
- Managing Puccinellia
- Puccinellia ciliata Wimmera
- Storing Forage Cereals
- Stubble Burning
- Tall Wheat Grass in Saline Soils
- When to Cut Forage Cereals
- Victorian Area and Harvest Estimates
- Soil Moisture Monitoring in Dryland Cropping Areas
- Grain and Crop Health
- Pastures
- Grains Science in Action
- High Rainfall Cropping
- Farmer's Stories
- Grains Calculators
- Crop Diseases Application for Smartphones
- Horticulture
- Beef and Sheep
- Other Animals and Livestock
- Pests, Diseases and Weeds
- Innovation and Research
- Environment and Community
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Growing Oat
The choice to grow oats compared to other crops is indeed as important as the selection of an appropriate variety. Oats are often thought of as an “easy” crop to grow but attention to detail is required to produce high yields and quality. Weed control options remain limited compared to other cereal crops and timely grain harvest is important as most varieties shed their grain easily.
The option of oats for hay is becoming increasingly popular in some regions where growers have identified it as profitable and perhaps as a tool to manage herbicide resistance. Independent comparative data on variety performance for hay is limited due to the lack of a coordinated industry approach, in particular levies or funding for research and development.
