Does anyone know

what the price of oats are going to be??? I heard with the drought down in the US they might be about 4 bucks/ bushel

As of this morning on the CBT price is $3.90 per bushel.

(quoted from post at 13:56:38 09/05/12) As of this morning on the CBT price is $3.90 per bushel.

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hat isnt a bad price, hopefully it will stay up until I can sell it

Lyle,

Unfortunately, the CBOT is about 9,000 miles south of you. You might end up with a little bit of transportation expense to market your oats in America.

Tom in TN

A neighbour just sold his oats to the Amish for $300 per ton. I've heard that some are sowing oats to get a quick green crop baled up for feed before winter. This is in Ontario.

Just as a partly educated guess, the part of the US that is in the drought really doesn't produce much of an oat crop anyway. Here in Iowa we can't produce near the yields and test weights that you can in Canada, and the fields that do have oats on them are small 20-50 acre patches. Around here we are lucky to get 36 lb/bu and 50 bu/a. Yeah, I know, someone from New York will come in and say he got 100 bu/a on his five acre patch and probably so, but it's a tiny acreage as compared to the whole world.

In Saskatechewan's cooler climate we were harvesting 100 bu oats at 50+ lb/a. and it was thousands of acres. In fact, the producer we harvested for was feeling bad that his oats were running as low as 50 lb/a. Here in the US the only large area that can come close to that as a whole is the Dakotas. I don't follow the oat market but I suspect the oat market might go up just for the fact that oats might be substituted for other feed grains. Just my .02 that's probably not accurate. Jim

East Central Minnesota, my neighbor sold his oats out of the field to local buyers for $4 per bushel. They were very nice, heavy oats. Local feed mill offered him $3 if he delivered them to the mill.

I sold my oats at $4 to the local feed mill which was 50 cent over CBOT at the time( 1 month ago). His reasoning was the projected price of Canadian oats pushing $6 by the time they got to him.

barley is about 85% of the feed value of corn oats have about 80% of the feed value of barliey. $8 corn should make barley about $6.80 and oats about $5.40 .Paul

Close to that here(central NY) I cleaned up last years oats just before harvest @ $4.00 to the mill. He was paying about $4.80 for NICE Canadian oats. Mine were nothing special. This years oats are quite nice.

I'll be the guy from NY LOL !!!!! but they do seem to grow well here, but like you said the acreage, certainly is not contiguous, used to be a pain to find someone working in the maze of fields, hedgerows, before cell phones or if you did not have any radio, 2 way or CB or hand held etc.
They like nitrogen, spray for weeds and if the weather is good, you can get a nice harvest of grain and straw, but mind you, once the outs stop shading out the weeds, persistent weeds will come back and mess up the straw,sometimes the grain, say with ragweed, we combined a field for another farmer that did not spray, he got decent grain, but no straw and could not sell the grain, because of other things in it.

Waist high or about, just my place, we had about 70 acres that year, the next was over 100. From what I could see, was on the gravity wagon, and trucked them to the buyer whom sold feed south of us, grain looked nice (not sure of test weight, but size looked good)BPA was good, I believe he filled the hopper 2x off this 7 acre patch, made 15 bales 700 lbs each of clean straw, productive moisture holding field at the bottom of a small valley. It was doing better than corn and the harvest is so much easier, no cold weather, mud, muck and mire. Seems the extra nitrogen paid off one year as the same field had 5 more of those bales.

In my neck of the woods we used to be able to grow 100 bpa oats but not now. Some guys blame herbicide carryover. We have to be careful to not put down too much nitrogen or the crop will grow real tall and then fall over. Jim

Remember Lyle. when the tide comes in , all ships rise. You'll do fine $$$ , make up for last year. Bruce

Yes, then Deere has these neat little guard extenders so you can lift the down stalks. We had some of that, enough to get them for his 6620, worked well too, looked like deer was bedding in the oats, but rain and too much height can do it.

lyle, Here in Central Texas I was quoted for seed oats 3 weeks ago $6.00/ bu....equals out to just under $20/100 lbs. Hard Red Winter Wheat about $9.00/bu,.....with-in pennies...../100!
Later,
John A.