Oats in favour as prices rise

By Catherine Miller
Updated August 21 2015 - 6:01pm, first published July 7 2015 - 4:00am
Tyrone Scullion, Apsley, and Elders Naracoorte senior agronomist Jason McClure in a Williams oat crop planted a month ago. Tyrone and his family view oats as a valuable cash crop and are allocating some of their most productive paddocks to them.
Tyrone Scullion, Apsley, and Elders Naracoorte senior agronomist Jason McClure in a Williams oat crop planted a month ago. Tyrone and his family view oats as a valuable cash crop and are allocating some of their most productive paddocks to them.

OATS have returned to favour in the South East, with strong demand for oaten hay and feed oats from the livestock industry, and forward contracts for milling oats between $280 a tonne and $300/t.

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