Oats Help

Looking to get some oats to add into my clover plots just for the fall, but have always used WR. What type of oats would you guys recommend. Ive heard a lot about buck forage oats but am having a hard locating some near me so Im not sure if it is worth the shipping cost.
 
If you're in zone 5, I'd focus on getting them in the ground soon. BFO has value, but the seed can be had for way less from a cover crop dealer. Being in Maine, I imagine there may not be a ton of cover crop dealers there. It's even more complicated by about every state out there having their own names for long maturity oats. So what I say is good here, likely isn't even known out there.

These guys will pay half the shipping for an order over $50. Maybe buy your seed for next year at the same time and you could pencil it out without too much pain. Maybe order up a bag or three of forage barley for spring while you're at it.

https://welterseed.com/inventory/certified-goliath-oats/

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Tractor Supply also has Plotspike forage oats for $31/50lbs. Not a bad price given you don't need to have it shipped, especially if you only need one bag.
 
Reclaim oats from my feed store. Work jst fine. I plant them w grain clover mix about Labor Day for my area. First frost early Oct. Good luck.


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Oats is oats. Good, plump horse feed oats are seed oats without the variety certification, cleaning, and germination testing. Seed oats are good plump horse feed oats, cleaned, germination tested, and certified true to variety. Beware oats grown in hot climates. They are none of the above.
 
they are extremely hard in any variety to get around here without shipping, but I did find some at one local feed store. I was gonna use the tractor supply one, but I already have my other stuff planted and just wanted them as a cover crop and to see how the deer used them compared to WR.
 
I planted BFO’s for the first time last year and was pleasantly surprised at how many survived the winter. We had several nights in the teens on the southern Cumberland Plateau. Once the deer rotated off the acorns, the BFO’s got hammered the rest of the season. I’m buying them again.
 
they are extremely hard in any variety to get around here without shipping, but I did find some at one local feed store. I was gonna use the tractor supply one, but I already have my other stuff planted and just wanted them as a cover crop and to see how the deer used them compared to WR.
If you buy un-cleaned seed, just be sure it was grown in an area that doesn't have roundup resistant weeds. Many have willfully introduced weeds they can't kill onto their properties with feed oats, dirty rye, etc.

Might be best left alone until you can source proper seed. Or just pay the extra money for whatever you can get that is cleaned. What you save on seed costs with feed oats will be dwarfed by chemistry needed to control the monsters of ag country.

Surf the forums. There are plenty of threads out there with guys seeking knowledge to take their chemical plan to the next step because glyphosate isn't working anymore.

Just my take on it. Now you decide.
 
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