Community News
(Please note that there will be no update on December 4th, as I'll be in Ghent for the CROPDIVA symposium. -CW.)
27 November 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- World Grain: Focus on Sweden
- The Merry Mill - failed oat crop (Video)
- Exploring the trait-yield association patterns in different oat mega-environments of Canada (Peer-reviewed)
- Check your seed rates
- AFBI: Cereal aphid monitoring, 17 Nov
- Scientific analysis of western Canadian oats harvest quality
- Research at Ottawa’s Experimental Farm at risk over nearby development
- AHDB has released the results of the Crop 24 Early Bird Survey
- Why more growers are opting for key early spring oat variety
- Teagasc 2023 Harvest Report: Oats, barley, OSR and beans
- Oat Beta-glucan – Clean Label Texturizer
- Cereals Canada: Maritimes
- Marketing Food-Grade Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- PFI: Oat Variety Trial 2023
- UMN: Oat Field Crop Variety Trials
- Another dry season steals Canadian crop output
- Winter cereal planting levels down by an estimated 40%
- Prize for poster on lentil-oat mixed cropping
- CGIAR: Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and plant genetic resources
- Reaping the benefits of monitoring cereal rust pathotypes
Job opening:
Events:
- NAPB: Webinar on plant variety protection, December 1, 2023
- ‘Next Generation Breeders’ Workshop, Geisenheim, Germany, March 17-18, 2024
- 2024 Regional GRDC Grains Research Update – Mukinbudin, AUstralia, March 19, 2024
- 9th Genomic Selection Course, Madrid, Spain, May 20-24, 2024
20 November 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- 2023/24 global oats production forecast to contract
- Harvest 2023: Cereal production down almost 500,000t
- GIWA Crop Report – November 2023
- Canadian Scientists Unlock Oat Genome
- Scientists issue rallying cry for greater global cooperation to safeguard seeds for future food and nutrition security
- How Does Oatmeal Help with Blood Sugars? (Video)
- Why annual cereal species are often seen in cover crop blends (Video)
Job opening:
Events:
- Organic oat growers seminar, Clonmel, Ireland, December 4, 2024
- Midwest Cover Crops Council meeting, Indianapolis, USA, February 13-14, 2024
- UMN Summer Institute in Plant Breeding, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, June 10-14, 2024
13 November 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Dr Hayfa Salman & Sabrina Lim about how AEGIC is working to increase intake of healthy Australian whole grains (Video)
- Spatiotemporal deposition of cell wall polysaccharides in oat endosperm during grain development (Peer-reviewed)
- Ontario Spring Cereal Performance Trials - 2023 data
- Oatmeal Baths For Poison Ivy Relief
- 2024 WA Crop Sowing Guide
- David Aglen has been cover cropping for the last 8 years and explains the benefits (Video)
- Northern Scotland farmers thrive with Merlin Spring Oats
- Quadrat Misuse in Cover Crop Biomass Research (Video)
- Grains Australia Oat Council meeting
- Grower reveals yield and margin data from intercropping trial
- [Irish Agriculture] Minister McConalogue concludes the Korea Trade Mission with a series of commercial meetings (Article in Irish)
- The Australian Grains Genebank (Podcast)
- POGA advocating for oat breeding
- POGA part of successful Team Canada Trade Mission to Japan
- Advance information on the quality of the 2023 [Finnish] grain harvest has been revised (Article in Finnish)
- From Petri Dish to Field: Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering of Oats for Improved Agricultural Outcomes (Peer-reviewed)
- Organic grains 2023: glut of feed grains – bread grains in short supply (Article in German)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting date experiment near Guelph, ON - November 6th
- PFI: Oat Variety Trial 2023
- Pea-Cereal intercrop has advantages for forage production
Job openings:
Events:
- Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference, January 19-20, 2024
- Midwest Cover Crops Council meetings, Indianapolis, February 13-14, 2024
06 November 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- The Crop Trust: The journey of a seed in a genebank (Video)
- Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council on 27th October 2023
- AEGIC oat noodles, ‘rice’ destined for supermarket shelves
- Media release: AEGIC oat noodles and oat ‘rice’ destined for supermarket shelves
- Seven News exclusive announcing the AEGIC and My Plant Co partnership (Video)
- Flahavan’s now major oatmeal brand in South Korea
- TWO PULSE-OILSEED INTERCROP COMBINATIONS TO ENHANCE YIELD AND NUTRIENT AVAILABLILTY IN SASKATCHEWAN (Thesis)
- Merlin spring oats
- Australian Cereal Rust Survey map, updated 03 Nov
- Grains Australia Year in Review, 2022/23
- Oat pellets for biofuel
- Oat cash prices don’t immediately follow CBOT movement
- Transcriptomic response for revealing the molecular mechanism of oat flowering under different photoperiods (Peer-reviewed)
- ITPGRFA: The plants that feed the world
- Tillage: Placed phosphate fertiliser on cereal seed beds
- Raisio Oyj's interim report January-September 2023 (Article in Finnish)
- Flahavan’s announces Oat Grower of the Year winners
Events:
- U. Helsinki thesis defense - Mika Immonen: The impact of enzyme-assisted extraction on the applicability of oat proteins in different food systems, November 24th
- Ontario Agricultural Conference, January 2024
30 October 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Wheat bran and sunflower sprouts are approved foods, rye bran and oat bran are novel foods (Article in Finnish)
- Final spring oat RL harvest results for 2023 show yields above average, but late crops have suffered
- PFI email discussion groups
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting date experiment #5 of 7. (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats and barley in southern Ontario. (Video)
- Ben Creek: "A little drone action for fun of some of our hay program" (Video)
- Manitoba seasonal summary crop report
- CROPDIVA: Practice abstract #3.1 Benefits of growing spring cereals (hull-less barley and oats) and winter cereals (triticale) in a mixed intercropping system with spring and winter pea under extremely dry weather conditions in Serbia
- CROPDIVA: Practice abstract #2.2 How to successfully produce oats under drought stress?
- The Economic Impact of Cereal Grains on the Canadian Economy
- The connection between Grain Millers and one of their clients, Prana
- Marketing Food-Grade Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- Ag research deserves a ‘new deal’
- The future of oat weed control
- 2024 South Australian crop sowing guide
- Oat cuisine: How AAFC science is powering up an ancient grain
- 2023/24 world production of oats is predicted to contract y/y to a multi-year low
- SDSU: Oat variety trial results
Events:
Job openings:
- Research agronomist/Plant physiologist in the Integrated Cropping Systems Research Unit for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Plains Area (PA), in Brookings, South Dakota
- USDA-ARS Fellowship on Improvement of Disease Resistance in Spring Oat Using Genomics and Phenomics
Surveys:
- AFIA Fodder R, D&E Stocktake
- CROPDIVA seeking participants for group discussions about foods from the 6 little-used Swiss arable crops: oats, buckwheat, lupins, triticale, naked barley and faba beans (Survey in German)
23 October 2023
(The Oat Newsletter site is functioning normally now, after being down last week. Also, the Weekly Web Harvest will now be posted on Mondays.)
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Australian NVT results:
- Dry chops 550,000t from WA crop estimate: GIWA
- AEGIC virtual crop inspections
- Double cropping - What is better oats or forage sorghum?
- Herbal leys supporting organic oat production
- DEFRA has released estimated English crop yields for harvest '23
- The future of oat weed control
- Genesys oat accessions (currrent)
- Finnish plant-based brand Oddlygood launches in the UK with a range of vegan desserts made from oat milk
- Elevated CO2 differentially attenuates beryllium-induced oxidative stress in oat and alfalfa (Peer-reviewed)
- Oat Milk: A Complete Guide
- How Plant Breeders Breed for Climate Resilient Agriculture (Video)
- Tirlán grain prices announced for harvest 2023
- MDPI Special Issue "Barley and Oats: Chemistry, Health Benefits, Processing and Utilizations"
- Fazer is considering production changes to ensure its competitiveness in the plant-based drinks business (Article in Finnish)
- Genome data rewrite the story of oat domestication in China
- The Manitoba Advantage in Oats
- Bumper Crops: Using Spring Oats as a Late Season Cover Crop or for Forage (Video)
- Investigating trends in ergot in Canadian cereal crops
- NAMA Looks Ahead To The Future During 2023 Annual Meeting
Job openings:
- Raisio Research and Development Manager
- USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Alternative Proteins Using Machine Learning
- International Internships at University of Illinois
- Aarhus University, Denmark: Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Genetics and Biology of Plant Pathogens
Events:
- GENOTYPE BY ENVIRONMENT BY MANAGEMENT (GXEXM) SYMPOSIUM II, November 6-7, 2023
- Whole Grain Initiative event "Empowering the next generations with whole grain" - November 15, 2023
- Nordic Field Trial Network (NFTN) Conference at SLU Campus in Uppsala, February 8, 2024
08 October 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- WORLD PORRIDGE DAY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Australian Grains Genebank: Conserving diversity for future crop development (Video)
- Carrbridge's world porridge championship defies the weather
- Speciality Champion Bobby Fisher from London tells us about his winning dish - treasure oats (Video)
- Prevent spoilage
- Transfer of resistance alleles from herbicide-resistant to susceptible grass weeds via pollen-mediated gene flow
- Stockan's Oatcakes shapes
- Processed Oat Partnership - Valuing WA oats (Video)
- Winter-planted sorghum and weedy oats
- Growing calls for crop diversity (Video)
- Manitoboa Crop Report, October 3rd
- Genotypic and resistance profile analysis of two oat crown rust differential sets urge coordination and standardisation (Preprint)
- Aaron Beattie, Chair In Barley And Oat Breeding And Genetics, University Of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre
- Cover Crop Species Selection
- Scottish Oats and Porridge - Alan Meikle (Podcast)
- Plant-Based Drinks – an Alternative to Milk?
Grants/Calls for proposals:
- Request For Proposals: Assessment Of The Capacity For Crop Research In Manitoba
- Raisio plc's Research Foundation
- AgriFutures Export Fodder Program Open Call
01 October 2023
Weekly web harvest:
- Crops Update - Winter Cereal Growers choose your cereal variety carefully
- An in-depth evaluation of powdery mildew hosts reveals one of the world’s most common and widespread groups of fungal plant pathogens (Peer-reviewed)
- USDA-NASS: Small Grains Summary Grain Stocks
- Kevin Scully, The Merry Mill: "I am a price setter now"
- Organic food business wins European Commission award
- Laois mill scoops EU Organic Award
- EU Organic Awards
- Quality of western Canadian oats in 2023
- HERSHEY’S First Plant-Based Chocolate Bar Is Coming To Canada
- Carbon figures needed for Irish grain to make 'strong and loud' claims
- Part of Twitter/X thread: what do hay growers want?
- First spring oat Recommended List harvest results for 2023
- From Gene-for-Gene to Resistosomes: Flor's Enduring Legacy (Peer-reviewed)
- Genome-enabled analysis of population dynamics and virulence associated loci in the oat crown rust fungus Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae (Preprint)
- Virulence patterns of oat crown rust in Australia - season 2022 (Preprint)
- 2024 Nuffield Scholar Shannen Barrett - Growing the Case for Oats (Podcast)
- MAKE IT WITH OATS AND TRY IT WITH BERE (Video)
- Canadian Grain Handling Summary
Events:
- Webinar: Use of Unoccupied Aerial Systems in Plant Breeding, October 5th
- Whole Grain Initiative event "Empowering the next generations with whole grain", November 15th
Recipes:
25 September 2023
24 September 2023
Weekly web harvest:
- Organic Grain Hub - prices
- World trade in oats
- Shifting funding dollars out of research and extension — what's the future?
- Rain arrests slide in yield potential: GIWA
- G&G Farms - organic growers
- Manitoba Harvest Nears Two-Thirds Finished
- Statistics Canada releases newest field crop estimates
- GIWA Crop Report – September 2023
- The Trickle-down Impact of Brown Bag Seed Sales
- Canadian Grain Commission - Grain statistics weekly
- Seedtech 2023 Autumn Drilling Guide
- THE NATURAL GOODNESS OF OATS
- Grain Research Laboratory Annual Program Report 2022
- Austin Bruch - Winter oat planting date experiment
- WOA Receives AUD$5M Government Grant to Produce Oat Milk Enriched with Lupin Protein
- 2024 recommended lists for winter wheat and oats published
- Manitoba crop report - September 19th
- Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) harvest results commentary
- On the Farm with #YourFarmers Keanan and Reuben
- New Irish oat drink (Video)
- Decomposition of phenotypic variation of white oats by meteorological and geographic covariables (Peer-reviewed)
- Variability of morphological descriptors in Sicilian oat (Avena sativa L.) populations (Peer-reviewed)
- Regulation, Testing and Protecting Varieties
- DAILY PRICES OF GRAINS, INCLUDING ORGANIC (Article in Finnish)
Events:
- GRDC Grains Research Update, online – Oats, October 5th
- SaskOrganics Organic Grain Markets Webinar - October 18th
Calls for proposals:
- AgriFutures Export Fodder Program Open Call
- GFO: The 2024 Grains Innovation Fund is now open for applications
Survey for completion:
17 September 2023
Weekly web harvest:
- Helsingin Mylly (Helsinki Mills) supports needy children and families in Finland (Article in Finnish)
- Manitoba Crop Report - September 12, 2023
- Finland’s cereal production forms the basis of domestic food – as cereal, dairy and meat products (Article in Finnish)
- MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATING DIVERSITY IN AVENA SATIVA (Peer-reviewed)
- Breeding Better Seeds: Sustainable, More Nutritious Food Production Under the Specter of Global Warming
- Oat line 13008-18 fast-tracked by InterGrain - example of data
- Hay, Not Just for Horses After All?
- A process elevator licence has been issued to AGT Foods Oat Milling Limited Partnership at Aberdeen, SK
- Statistics Canada: Model-based principal field crop estimates, July 2023
- Why porridge should be our go-to breakfast
- Discover the Benefits and Flavors of Whole Grains during September’s Whole Grains Month
- A poignant pillas harvest (small naked oat)
- Re-making history with Pillas
- Canadian Grain Commission: Grain Research Laboratory Annual Program Report 2022
- Grain Farmers of Ontario 2023 Annual Report
- Heady Farm - spring oat harvest (Video)
- Minnesota Ag News – Crop Progress & Condition, September 5th
- Stockan's Oatcakes bakery
- Manitoba Crop Report - September 5th, 2023
- "Move over Bannister oats - 13008-18 & Koala are coming to claim your spot on the farm"
- Canadian drought bites crop output hard
- Aphid control critical for managing BYDV risk this autumn
- Buffalo Creek Mills: the oat growth process from June to August (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Ontario winter oat planting experiment (Videos)
- Grain yield stability analysis using parametric and nonparametric statistics in oat (Avena sativa L.) genotypes in Ethiopia (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- 2023 GIWA Forum and GIWA Annual General Meeting, October 4th
- 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GLUTEN-FREE CEREAL PRODUCTS AND BEVERAGES - Rome, 18-20 October (Poster abstract deadline extended)
- 2024 GRDC Grains Research Update, Perth, Australia, 26-27 February, 2024
- Eucarpia General Congress, Leipzig, Germany, 18-23 August, 2024
(The September 10th update is delayed - please check back on September 17th!)
03 September 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Insecticide resistance a major concern facing tillage sector
- Austin Bruch: Harvesting small plots of hulless oats (Video)
- Quaker Oats recipes on Pinterest
- Sampling oats in Australia at distinct time points to understand the different yield pathways in 72 oat varieties from around the world
- Latest Australian Cereal Rust Survey Map update
- Oddlygood oat drink available through Delice de France
- ‘Single-Seed-SpeedBulks:’ a protocol that combines ‘speed breeding’ with a cost-efficient modified single-seed descent method for rapid-generation-advancement in oat (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- RealAg Radio: Making the U.S. corn crop, videos for learning, and the interesting oat market, August 30, 2023 (Video)
- Could you be Flahavan's 2023 Oat Grower of the Year?
- Manitoba Crop Report, August 29th
- A novel method for irrigating plants, tracking water use, and imposing water deficits in controlled environments (Peer-reviewed)
- Estimates of production of principal field crops, Canada
- Buffalo Creek Mills - Oat harvest 2023 (Video)
- Aecial and telial host specificity of Puccinia coronata var. coronata, a Eurasian crown rust fungus of two highly invasive wetland species in North America (Peer-reviewed)
- Preventing grain staining in oats from Septoria avenae blotch
Events:
- Meitheal and Harvest Dance, Drumsna, Ireland, September 9th
- Healthy Oats Project Closure Event, UCD Dublin, Ireland, September 12th
- 17TH INTERNATIONAL CEREAL AND BREAD CONGRESS 2024, Nantes, France, April 22-25
Misc. positions, scholarships, etc.:
- U of G launches hands-on master's program in plant agriculture
- Call for directors for Manitoba and Saskatchewan oat commissions
- Students! Apply Now for a CPBI Innovation Scholarship
27 August 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Straw is valuable…don’t undervalue it
- Plant a fall crop now for forage so you can double crop (Video)
- RealAg on the Weekend: AgriRecovery, drought, harvest stress, and killing wild oats, Aug 26, 2023 (Video)
- From oats to groats: the growing success of Buffalo Creek Mills
- Manitoba Crop Report, August 22nd
- Very damp oats (Video)
- New MD for Senova
- US retail sales of oat milk decline in latest quarter after years of explosive growth
- Saskatchewan Crop Report, August 15-21
- The Merry Mill is shortlisted for the EU Organic Awards this year (Video)
- Cereal growers urged to cut BYDV threat by controlling ‘green bridge’
- The small naked oat - "Best for feeding pigs of any grain whatsoever" (Video)
- Organic Oat Breeding / Oat cultivars specifically developed for organic production systems in Canada
- InterGrain line 11088-16
- WA Govt grants $5M to Milne Feeds, $3M to Unigrain
- Canada’s oats output is seen markedly lower y/y in 2023/24
Events:
- PFI: Grazing Cover Crops for Soil Health, Ashton, IA, USA, September 19th
- PlantLink Day “Biodiversity: the key to resilient agri-food systems” – Join us on 05 October!
- PAG31, San Diego, CA, USA, January 12-17, 2024
Elections:
20 August 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Question on Twitter re: Canadian oats shattering
- Dry trims 1Mt from west’s yield potential: GIWA
- Unigrain on a roll with $10 million Wagin oat processing expansion thanks to $3 million State grant
- Have you got the golden touch with a porridge spurtle?
- Gerty milk
- IGC: Grain inventories rise but still at nine-year low
- Oat Pops - School competition recipes
- Harvesting pea/oat bi-crop (Video)
- 'Kingbale' update from the Western Downs, QLD (Video)
- "The magic of wild oats - the awns are twisting in the pail" (Video)
- Harvest of Fall Seeded Crops and Pulses Starts in Alberta
- Cooking fails and how to fix them
- 'Eagle' winter oats in Lincolnshire (Video)
- Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake
Events:
- Cereals and Grains meeting, Schaumberg, IL, USA - advance rates end Sept. 8th
- PFI: Cooperators’ Trial with Soybeans Planted Green, Legume Covers and Strip-Till Corn (Oats, too), Hayword, MN, USA, September 18th
13 August 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- FUELLING YOUR RIDE: THE POWER OF OATS FOR CYCLISTS
- Minnesota Ag News – Crop Progress & Condition, August 7th
- Recipe for Oatcake day, August 8th: Staffordshire oatcakes
- Nitrate Toxicity
- The benefits of oats
- Quaker Oats UK donates breakfasts
- DoubleTree by Hilton collaborates with Partake Foods on allergy-friendly cookie (includes oats)
- Saskatchewan Crop report: 1-7 August
- Buffalo Creek Mills (Video)
- 3 oatmeal beauty recipes
- Funding Future Crop Varieties for Alberta Farmers
- Austin Bruch: Small scale harvesting of naked oats with green straw. (Video)
- Make This Simple Hand Grain Mill! 15th Century Grain Mill Made From Wood (Video)
Events:
- Webinar: Introducing Oats to Those with Coeliac Disease, 15th September
- German Plant Breeders' Conference, Geisenheim University, 19-21 March, 2024
06 August 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Sampling wild oats for testing
- Saskatchewan Crop Report: Dryness continues as harvest begins
- Genomic prediction of seed nutritional traits in biparental families of oat (Avena sativa) (Peer-reviewed)
- Milk Holds Strong Against Plant-Based Beverages in the Market
- 2 things - and more! - you should know about plant-based milk alternatives and weather on Mars
- Insider’s View: History in the making?
- Experiments in the roots of Senova oat varieties
- Genome resequencing reveals independent domestication and breeding improvement of naked oat (Peer-reviewed)
- Seed Science at CFIA (Video)
- Flahavan’s launches 2023 Oat Grower of the Year award
- Oats have hay potential
- Red leather leaf of hay oats disease management guide
- #ECR Takeover of Monogram Twitter
- Organic price quotes: Late July
- Plant breeders need to be recognized
- Practical Farmers of Iowa - 2022 Cooperators’ Program Report
- Seed an ‘Annual’ Pasture Within a ‘Perennial’ Pasture
Job opening:
Events:
- GRDC Grains Research Update, online – Managing foliar diseases in oats and an update on crown-rot in cereals, August 8th
- Victoria to host national fodder conference and field day, August 15-17
- 7th Conference on Cereal Biotechnology and Breeding/18th EWAC – The European Cereals Genetics Co-operative Conference, November 6-9 (Abstracts due August 31st)
30 July 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- 2023 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CROP SOWING GUIDE - Oats
- Organic and Low-Input Field Day attracts prairie producers
- Bringing back Irish flour and protein
- Crop Tour #2 - Northern Alberta
- PestFacts WA - Bacterial blight, Septoria avenae blotch and leaf rust are appearing in oats
- New comprehensive crop disease reference book edited by AgCenter scientists
- Alan Steven, Hillhead wins Fife cropping competition
- How can I best tackle sterile oat in Northern region wheat crops?
Events:
- PWCP 2023 Webinar Speaker Series - Topic #2 Cover Cropping, August 2nd
- AFIA FODDERGANZA, 15-17 August, Elmore and Bendigo, Australia
23 July 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Producers remain on the brink in Alberta
- Global oat end-season stocks
- Sask Organics July 2023 newsletter
- Do dwarf oat varieties have dwarf roots? (Video)
- Combines move and grain prices rise significantly
- Oat stem and leaf (crown) rust disease management guide
- Bacterial blight, Septoria avenae blotch and leaf rust are appearing in oats
- Season off to a strong start for Australian grain producers
- The Merry Mill in Laois shortlisted for EU organic award
- Laois mill among 2023 EU Organic Awards finalists
- ‘Wettest July on record’ causing ‘havoc’ on tillage farms
- Australian RD&E delivers world-leading growth
- Red leather leaf of hay oats
- Jim Dyck and his new forage oat line - OT 6036
- AIM: Significant yield drop expected
- Find answers to what American oat consumers want
- 'Tough decision': Southland loses oat milk factory development
- USDA-ARS Cereal Rust Bulletin #5
- Summary report, 12–14 July 2023, 10th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
- Cover crop timing is just around the corner
- Golden Spurtle Judging Panel 2023
- Cold, sub-par rain add risk to crop outlook: GIWA
- Project Update: CSIRO Long Coleoptile Project
- Facey Group long coleoptile field walk report (Video)
- The host of the farm tells why gluten-free products are expensive: "Price difference compared to Lada and Mersu" (Article in Finnish)
- Saskatchewan oat conditions, July 10th
- GIWA Crop Report – July 2023
- The benefits and struggles of FAIR data: the case of reusing plant phenotyping data (Peer-reviewed)
- Heavy downpours stop combines and lodge crops
- What are the new cereal variety options?
- Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan provide additional support for producers; low yield appraisal change encourages poor crops be used as feed
- Maps: Where are oats most likely to be grown in Canada?
- Nordic Oats creates a brand for Nordic oats (Article in Finnish)
- Sarah Clarke from ADAS discusses the benefits of their research on oats (Video)
- Save the date for annual forages
Job opportunity
Grants
Events
- Lacombe Research and Development Centre Field Day 2023, Lacombe, AB, Canda - July 26th
- Organic and low input field day, Swift Current, SK, Canada - July 27th
- FP Genetics field tour, Canada - July 31st
- U of M Natural Systems Agriculture Lab field tour, Glenlea, MB, Canada - August 1st
- Healthy Oats Safari, Aberystwyth, UK - August 2nd
- Webinar: GRDC Grains Research Update, Managing foliar diseases in oats and an update on crown-rot in cereals - August 8th
- Compost & Company Field Day: Leross, SK, Canada - August 10th
- AFIA National Fodder Conference, Australia - August 16th-17th
Sample requests/info
(The July 16th update is delayed - please check back on July 23rd!)
09 July 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- CDC Anson oats (Video)
- Determining cardinal temperatures for eight cover crop species (Peer-reviewed)
- AFBI Aphid monitoring, 30 Jun 2023
- Healthy Oats meeting at the IBERS high altitude oats plots (Videos)
- White's Oats supply chain and packaging
- RHET - Awesome oats (Video aimed at children)
- Record Highs Across Most Crops Leaves Oats Behind
- RL harvest results deliver early indication of variety performance
- Metabolomic approaches highlight two mechanisms of accelerated grain filling in Mediterranean oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars during drought (Preprint)
- GRDC Research, Development, and Extension plan, 2023-2028
- Kingbale oats (Video)
Events:
- Indian Head, SK, Crop Management Field Day, July 18th
- ECRF Yorkton Crop Plot Tour, July 20th
- Accelerated Breeding: Optimize Breeding Pipelines. Deliver Better Results, July19th
- UK Plant and Crop Phenomics Conference, 4th-5th September
- AGSA conference, 26th-27th September
- Breeding Out of the Box, 24th-25th October
Open call:
02 July 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Oat varieties from the past may hold the key to the future
- Organic price quotes: Late June
- Parkside shakes up cereal packaging with high-performance, home compostable laminate for Yockenthwaite Farm
- Cereals Canada 2022 Annual Report
- The livestock farmers finding alternatives to monoculture fodder crops (Video)
- U researchers hopeful for naturally-occurring end to invasive buckthorn
- Scientists think a fungus could conquer invasive buckthorn
- Tillage: Start of 2023 cereal harvest could start in coming days
- GRDC National Variety Trials Protocols
- Wild Oats (in Saskatchewan)
- Austin Bruch on Instagram: Oat breeding (Video)
- Canola, wheat big winners in seeding report (but not oats)
- Practical support at right time for Orkney bakery
- Black oats in vineyards
- Oat growers reminded of lambda-cy restrictions
- CGSA Annual report, 2022-2023
- AFBI Aphid monitoring, 23 Jun 2023
- 524 The 27-Inch Precipitation Threshold: A New Rule of Thumb for Cover Crop Economics
- FARM UPDATE 152 LAST OF LINCS SHOW, BLACKGRASS PULLING, CULTIPRESS CS AREAS, BEET & OATS LOVED RAIN (Video)
- Responding to growers’ needs through oat research
- Grain prices prove challenging for oat growers
- Meet Oatside, the newest (and most delicious) plant-based milk in town
- US oat crop condition
- Baked beans grown in the UK (with oats, too) (Video)
- Oat and pea intercrop (Video)
- More intercropping! (Video)
- In Today’s World, Highlighting Aspiring Plant Breeders is Imperative
- Tirlán enters plant-based drinks market with new oat drink
- Back to the future - developing new avenues for oats
- Oats: Nutritional Uniqueness and Breeding of a Healthy Superfood (Peer-reviewed)
- Innovations in plant-based milk embrace clean-label, sustainability, enhanced taste
- Australia’s Growing Appetite For Plant-Based Foods
Job openings:
- IPK, Germany: Scientific Data Manager/Data Steward (German language skills required)
- AEGIC: Research Scientist – Oat Classification
Events:
- PFI: Drilling Down on Crops and Rotational Grazing, July 7th
- AAFC Lacombe Research and Development Centre Field Day 2023, July 26th
- Seed World webinar, 27th July: Public and Private Breeding Programs
25 June 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- The Role of Oats in Immunity and Gut Health
- Salvaging Drought-Stressed Small Grains
- Funding for grains research advances
- Oats: winter behavior of new varieties (Video in Spanish)
- Innovations in plant-based milk embrace clean-label, sustainability, enhanced taste
- Senova: Varieties 2023
- Nordic Ministers Updated on Expert Report About Genetic Resources
- Atik Rahman: Oat research at Teagasc (Video)
- Richie Hackett: Cover crops at Teagasc (Video)
- Louise McNamara: Entomology at Teagasc (Video)
- Whole host of reasons for supporting NVT
- Weed integrated management models
- Even plants need food
- AFBI: Cereal aphid monitoring, 16 Jun 2023
- Plant power: Could hybrid dairy offer the best of both worlds?
- The dynamics of touch-responsive gene expression in cereals (Peer-reviewed)
- New Bayer herbicide coming to Western Canadian growers
- Benefits of wholegrains and legumes in a plant-based diet
- NordGen Annual review 2022
Job opening:
Events:
- GGA Forum 23, 27th July
- UK Plant Phenomics conference, 4-5th September
- 7th Conference on Cereal Biotechnology and Breeding, November 7-9th
Surveys:
18 June 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Cereals throw big economic punch
- Federal gov’t must step up with seed research money
- Applications and impacts of the BrAPI project on plant breeding (Video)
- Weed control in winter crops
- 2023 Cereal Rust Risk Report (Mini update for June 7-13, 2023)
- Winter Feed Gap Comparison (Video)
- Genome-wide analysis and expression profiling of glyoxalase gene families in oat (Avena sativa) indicate their responses to abiotic stress during seed germination (Peer-reviewed)
- A Canadian Celiac podcast: Only Oats is back (Podcast)
- Despite drought in Northern Europe: The world will swim in grain (Article in Danish)
- Sowing 'VAHVA' oats - Junttila Farm (Video in Finnish)
- GrainGenes: Tutorial on BLAST New Interface Features (Video)
- Maximising grain fill in wheat and oats
- Insecticide spray guides for crops in Western Australia
- Minnesota Ag News – Crop Progress & Condition, June 11th
- Oats update: Controlling crown rust (Video)
- Studies on Puccinia coronata var. coronata and other recently observed rust fungi in Minnesota (Video - thesis defense)
- 4 things that happen when you start eating oatmeal (Article in Finnish)
- Bringing Oats Back to American Farms
- CDC milling oat variety bred to endure
- PestFacts WA - Green peach aphid alert
Events:
- Drilling Down on Oat Varieties, Double-Crop Soybeans and Rotational Grazing, July 7
- Ag in Motion, 18-20 July
Manuscript requests:
11 June 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Strengthening agricultural systems through plant-breeding and tools for farmers
- Aberystwyth University’s IBERS lands £9.8m to address climate change
- Where has all the seed money gone?
- Lack of funding for variety development threatens sustainability
- GIWA Crop Report – June 2023
- Field Day Recap: Exploring Relay Intercropping in Iowa
- The Role of Oats in Heart Health
- Homemade ice cream with a waffle cone
- The Benefits of Oats
- Organic Seed Breeding and Variety Trials: Finding the Right Seed for your Organic Farm
- The full lifecycle of Mornflake Mighty Oats from field to bowl
- No milk, no rolled oats and always add salt: how to make porridge like a champion
- CSGA’s Requirements for Breeder Seed Have Been Updated
- The journey of oats from the field to the table (In Finnish)
- Manitoba: Issue 4 (Week 23) – June 6, 2023 Crop Report
- Maximising grain fill in wheat and oats
- Health, environment or lactose intolerance: Why do people drink plant-based milk?
- Oats research being carried out to support future expansion
Job opening:
Events:
- Crops and Cover Crop Cultivations Open Day, 21st June, 2023
- Protein Vision: Innovations in Alternative Meat & Dairy, 21-22 June, 2023
- Scottish Agronomy Ltd: Summer Trials Open Day, June 27th 2023
- The National Organic Conference 2023, July 4th, 2023
- COMBINED 2023 NATIONAL FODDER CONFERENCE + FODDER FESTIVAL = FODDERGANZA!
- UK Phenomics Conference, September 4th, 2023
Surveys:
- Cover Cropping on the Canadian Prairies- Understanding Current Practices
- 2023 State of Open Data survey
04 June 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- New Argentinian project: Genetic improvement of oats to combat rust (In Spanish)
- Hutchinson's Seed & Varieties Information Book 2023
- AFBI Cereal Aphid Monitoring
- "Oat mince" is a thing!
- NO‑mediated dormancy release of Avena fatua caryopses is associated with decrease in abscisic acid sensitivity, content and ABA/GAs ratios (Peer-reviewed)
- Cover Cropping is an Ally in Promoting Plant Diversity
- Why oats are healthy (Twitter video)
- A reminder to Keep it Clean
- Herbicide resistance testing in Canada
- Interference of sterile oat (Avena ludoviciana) and Mexican pricklepoppy (Argemone mexicana) in chickpea (Peer-reviewed)
- The GHRET Snack Attack!
- A record organic grain harvest and a downturn in the market - what did organic in Finland look like in 2022? (In Finnish)
- FARM UPDATE 142 TRIBUTE TO A SPECIAL GUY, BEET & OATS, ROUND UP FIELD PATHS, BLACKGRASS, PLANT BEANS (Video)
- Senova and Just Oats at Cereals (Twitter video)
- Outstanding oats (Biostimulant data)
- Helsingin Mylly succeeded in its important climate goal as the first operator in the field in Finland (In Finnish)
Job opening:
- POGA Project Manager (Work From Home) (Deadline: June 11th)
Events:
- AHDB and Saaten Union field day, June 6th
- IGC Grains Conference 2023, 12-13 June
- Arable Scotland, July 4th
- Practical Farmers of Iowa 2023 field day schedule
- Cereals & Grains 23, 18-20 October
Grants:
29 May 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- North Dakota is Dramatically Behind Its Own Average Planting Pace. Why?
- Variations in the composition and structure of the lignins of oat (Avena sativa L.) straws according to variety and planting season (Peer-reviewed)
- Baby Cereal
- £9.8 million crops research boost for IBERS in Aberystwyth
- Metabolome and Transcriptome Analyses Reveal the Differences in the Molecular Mechanisms of Oat Leaves Responding to Salt and Alkali Stress Conditions (Peer-reviewed)
- Row spacing, seeding depth, seeding rate and trinexapac-ethyl effects on oat yield and lodging (Peer-reviewed)
- Prairie cover crop survey kicks up some surprising findings
- Millers Advocate For Farm Bill Priorities During NAMA Washington Policy Conference
- Incorporating Oats in Extended Rotations
- Saskatchewan growers seeding at slower pace
- John Innes Centre: Germplasm Resource Unit (GRU)
- GIWA: COGGO Research Fund
- IPPN Phenotyping survey
- Soybean Soil Fertility (and oat cover crops)
Events:
21 May 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- The dynamics of touch-responsive gene expression in cereals (Accepted article)
- Presentations of evaluations of wheat, barley, and oats in Argentina (in Spanish)
- 2023/24 global oats ending stocks
- Broken weather driving disease pressure for crops
- Improving wheat productivity through integrated management of Avena ludoviciana (Peer-reviewed)
- Manitoba Crop Report shows this year's cereal crop is almost in
- GIWA Crop Report – May 2023
- Can Seed Cleaning Technology Save a Seed Crop?
- Lanarkshire butcher crowned first haggis world champion
- Minnesota crop progress report, May 14th
- Throwback: Uncle Toby's Instant Porridge ad - 1990 (Video)
- CROPDIVA poster: Exploration and exploitation of the GxGxE space spanned by multi-environment intercropping experiments
- Australia: National Oat Breeding Program | Update (Video)
- USask researchers develop new online nutrient calculator
Events:
- Manuel Spannagl, Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2023 Finalist, Oral presentation
- University of Illinois Agronomy Days calendar
- University of Hohenheim - Breeding Out of the Box symposium
14 May 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Avonmore brings oat drink to the market
- Cover Crops: Agronomy Basics for Better Management
- AHDB Summer 2023 Recommended Lists
- Storing wet forage sabotages silage quality
- Butchers prepare for inaugural World Haggis Championships
- Growing nitrogen with legume cover crops
- Cereal Rust Bulletin #2
- Tom Yewbrey speaks on Senova's crop plots during Spring Crop Plot day 2023 (video)
- PCDMN Mini Prairie cereal rust update
- Tirlán Announces 2022 Annual Results
- Registration of oat cultivar ‘Rushmore’ (peer-reviewed)
- 'FLLA11019-8': A new dual-purpose facultative oat cultivar for grain and forage production in the southern United States (peer-reviewed)
- Stats Canada releases stocks of principal field crops report
- More on Oats from Gluten Free Watchdog: Retrospective database analysis 2011- 2023
- Will mastery of the witchcraft of AI be good or bad for research?
- Unique Collaboration Gathers New Knowledge About the Nordic Oat Collection – Nearly 800 Oat Varieties to Be Characterized
- USDA Science and Research Strategy, 2023-2026: Cultivating Scientific Innovation
- Uncertainty throws cold water on organic market
Events:
- 2023 Canadian Seed Growers' Association meeting
- Cereals - the Arable Event, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Thoughtful Insights: An NABP Graduate Student DEI Panel Discussion - webinar, May 19th
- IGC Grains Conference 2023, London, UK
- Cereals & Grains 23, Schaumburg, IL, USA
07 May 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- DivSeek International: Landscape of Information Tools & Resources
- Grains Australia establishes new Grains Market Access Council
- Raisio plc’s Interim Report January-March 2023
- What is the relationship between developing herbicide resistance, seed size and seed dormancy? (audio)
- Get yourself the world's smallest combine!
- Are oats good for anything else other than porridge or crumble?
- Atlantic Grains Council Newsletter Spring 2023
- Weed integrated management models
- Oats, other organic crops lacking contracts
- Haulin Oats - Quick Dick McDick (video for kids)
- Diagnosis and Management of Celiac Disease (includes recommendations on oats)
Job openings/other opportunities:
- NMBU, Norway - PhD scholarship in oat genomics
- DPIRD, Western Australia - Research Scientist in Phenomics
Events:
- UC Davis Small Grains & Alfalfa /Forages Field Day
- Oat Global Field Day, NDSU, Fargo, ND
- 73rd Annual Australasian Grain Science Conference
- PAG Australia - Call for Workshop Organizers and Speakers
04 May 2023
A PhD scholarship in oat genomics is available at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). See this flyer for more details. The closing date for applications is May 23rd, 2023!
30 April 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- What to consider when applying your growth regulation programmes (video)
- Uncertainty throws cold water on organic market
- How to control crown rust in oats
- Why Canada’s PBR System is a Model for the World
- NAMA: Grain research priorities
- When is it too late to plant oats, wheat or barley? Management considerations for late-spring planted small grains in 2023
- Quality ingredients: A recipe for success
- Considerations for annual forage production this season
- Intellectual Property: What You Need to Know (in ag) (video)
- Nitrogen Fertilizer for Food-Grade Oats
- The mitochondrial genome of the diploid oat Avena longiglumis (Peer-reviewed)
- What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
- PlantLink News – May
- Can oats, beans or peas play a role in beef cattle diets?
- Pyroxasulfone for resistant wild oats
Job openings/other opportunities: (see homepage)
Events:
- It’s National Oatmeal Cookie Day today in the US!
- Activating plant genetic resources in the crosshairs of plant breeding
23 April 2023
The (Monthly, this time) Web Harvest:
- Fusarium in Oats
- Fazer launches programme to upcycle ingredients
- GIWA may ‘align’ with Grains Australia but won’t be amalgamated
- WorldCereal Releases Global Seasonal Crop Type Maps
- Can oats, beans or peas play a role in beef cattle diets?
- AEGIC rolls into Grains Australia
- Grains Australia, AEGIC to join forces
- Alberta Oat Growers Commission: Oats for Breakfast
- Alberta Seed Guide: Selecting a Variety with the Seed Guide
- Prairie crop disease outlook for 2023
- SaskCrops submission to Sustainable Agriculture Strategy consultation
- Application timing of PGRs
- Quaker oat growers to be offered LEAF Marque certification
- GRDC National Variety Trials - reports
- Gluten Levels in Oat Products Tested By Gluten Free Watchdog 1/1/2022 to 4/17/2023
- Brief history of oats & Gluten Free Watchdog’s evolving opinion
- Two new varieties accepted into Australia Oat Classification Program
- Grazing intensity and nitrogen fertilization effects on biomass and morphology of black oat roots in an integrated crop–livestock system (peer-reviewed)
- Forage yield and biological nitrogen fixation of pea–cereal intercrops for hay production (peer-reviewed)
- GRDC Seed of Gold Award | Professor Andrew Barr (video)
- Nature’s Path walks away from organic farm
- Agriculture Victoria grain, pulse, and cereal disease guides
- Farmer Focus: Pea forage crop gives more business options
- Raising Farmers’ Voices: Collaborations among Saskatchewan crop commissions
- Ingredient company works to honour oat contracts
- Weathering the weather
- Genome Browser External Links - GrainGenes (video)
- Extracting metabolites from Fusarium-inoculated oat for LC-MS analysis
- UK’s largest agroforestry system integrates fruit and arable (video)
- PlantLink News – April
- Nadia Kamal honoured with a Next Generation Leadership award
- ‘FLLA09015-U1’: A broadly adapted dual-purpose oat cultivar for southern USA (peer-reviewed)
- A New Dual-Purpose Facultative Oat for the Southern U.S. (peer-reviewed; paywall)
- Inter-row spraying, weed wicking wild oats
- Winning paper by Lucia Gutierrez (Tweet in Spanish; paywall)
- International Agreements and the Plant Genetics Research Community: A Guide to Practice
Job openings/other opportunities:
- UCD: Research Assistant, School of Agriculture and Food Science (deadline April 26th)
- The Cereal Yield Enhancement Network (apply until June 15th)
- Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, University of Minnesota (deadline May 3rd)
- NC State University: Assistant Professor - Small Grains Breeder in Crop and Soil Sciences
Events:
- Introducing FoodNavigator-USA’s free editorial webinar: Plant-Based Dairy – From Oatmilk to Chickpea Ice Cream on May 17 at 11:30 CT
- Multi-Omic Integration for AI Genomic Prediction Breeding Short Course, July 10-14, 2023
- XXII International Workshop on Bunt and Smut Diseases, Tulln, Austria, 13-15 June, 2023 (abstract deadline extended until April 30th)
- Enjoy Some Southern Hospitality at the 2023 NAPB Meeting, July 16-20, 2023
- Arable Scotland 2023
02 April 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
I am on holiday right now and will be back with more stories from the web on April 23rd!
26 March 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- New bill prevents alternative beverages from being called ‘milk’
- Carrbridge's World Porridge event open for entries
- Mega-environment analysis and breeding for specific adaptation (peer-reviewed)
- An image-based methodology to evaluate oat panicle architecture (peer-reviewed)
- Fearlessly forward: Fazer's 2022 Annual Review
- NAMA Announces Farm Bill Priorities
- Storyboard CROPDIVA (video)
- Good news/bad news for commodity markets: Sweet wheat, the tragic tale of oats, and who might buy all the peas (video)
- Fungi and oat hybrid makes ‘completely new protein’ for alternative meat sector
- Here’s how pangenomics can help fast-track crop improvement
- Genome-Wide Association Mapping of QTL Underlying Groat Protein Content of a Diverse Panel of Oat Accessions (peer-reviewed)
- BBC Farming Today: Navara Oat Milling (podcast)
- Ron Rosmann’s 10 Tips for Growing Small Grains in Iowa (first published in 2018)
- Raisio Plc: Annual Review and Corporate Responsibility Report 2022, Corporate Governance Statement and Remuneration Report published
- Population structure analysis and genome-wide association study of a hexaploid oat landrace and cultivar collection (peer-reviewed)
- New Partnership between Lucent Bio, AGT Foods and Co-op for Fertilizer
- Doing This one Thing Will Help You Seize New Opportunities in Processing
- Oat plant looking to tap into growing demand
- Elovena® considered one of the most responsible brands in Finland – our systematic responsibility work continues
- How Does Oatmeal Help with Blood Sugars? (video)
Job openings/other opportunities:
- Assistant Professor – Forage Breeding/Genetics
- Processed Oat Partnership (Nuffield Australia info at bottom of page)
- PFI: Small Grains Cost-Share
Events:
- A Whole Day for Whole Grain is March 29—how will you celebrate? (No link - just a question!)
- Sign up for Fascination of Plants Day! Join us on 09 May in Lund
- Grain Farmers of Ontario - Good in Every Event
19 March 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Study: Grains major contributor to Canada’s success
- Canadian Cereal Crops Have $68.8 Billion Impact on Economy
- Joe Sierens: Seeding sustainability
- RGT Vaughan spring oat
- Processing technology a game changer for nutrient extraction
- Are oats good for anything else other than porridge or crumble?
- Oatmeal rolls (Recipe in Finnish)
- Producer or farmer?
- Prof. Dr. Ziya Dumlupinar resigned from his position (to enter politics) (Article in Turkish)
- Nuffield Australia: Processed Oat Partnership
- NSW Winter crop variety sowing guide 2023
- New oat processing plant nears completion
- Working Together on Plant Breeding
- List of academic publishers by preprint policy
- Government of Canada releases results of public consultations on the future of genomics in Canada
- Image-based time series analysis to establish differential disease progression for two Fusarium head blight pathogens in oat spikelets with variable resistance
- Genetic mapping of the powdery mildew resistance gene Pm7 on oat chromosome 5D
- Germination magazine: "Our March Edition covers how Canada's PBR system is a model for the world, the PGDC puts a focus on regulation and more"
- Grain Standards in Western Australia
- USDA-ERS: Feed Grains - Yearbook Tables
- Saskatchewan: Varieties of Grain Crops
- YEN: Join one of our crop networks for 2023
Job opening:
12 March 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Here’s how pangenomics can help fast-track crop improvement
- Oats ready to milk future consumer demand
- Lupilicious, Delicious Breakfast Cereals with Lupin and Oats
- Paulig has agreed to sell the Frezza brand and business to Juustoporti (Article in Finnish)
- Fazer and Martat collaborate to praise Finnish oats - the rise of oats now continues in food preparation (Article in Finnish)
- RDAR funds Alberta Regional Variety Trials - Providing Alberta producers with access to crop and variety performance data
- Industry research to tackle oat rust
- Leading varieties boosting Australian oat and oaten hay production
- Almost a tonne of grain to collect with a combination of follow-on crops and starter fertiliser (Article in Danish)
- DAIRY PRIDE Act would wipe out FDA labeling guidance for plant-based milk alternatives
- New & Improved NCBI Datasets Genome and Assembly Pages
- Better visibility would leave drama to sports and novels
- Gluten-free oat contracts fall apart
- The Differences Between Public and Private Plant Breeding
- Food Connections: James Macsween - Haggis
- Professor Anne Osbourn – plant scientist and poet receives prestigious Novozymes Prize
Job openings:
- Graduate Research Assistantship in small grains at University of Kentucky, USA
- University of Florida, Jackson, FL USA: Assistant Professor – Forage Breeding/Genetics
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN USA: Researcher 2, Department of Plant Pathology
05 March 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Questions on the feeding value of oat grain
- Australian Grains Guide
- Crown rust in the US state of Georgia
- Oatcake-loving Masterchef judge to perform 80s hits at Newcastle gig
- Avena Commissions New Purity Protocol Oat Mill
- Pea/cereal intercrop improves forage production
- Protein Industries Canada is now looking for new projects
- Intercropping & Relay Cover Cropping: How They Work with Plant Synergies
- From McDonald's to Chick-Fil-A, Nutritionists Say These Are the Healthiest Fast Food Options
- ECRF: What the Hail Happened? (Video)
- Buffalo Creek Mill's in-house lab testing
- From niche culture to flagship product (CROPDIVA) (Article in French)
- Hundreds take part in the Recommended Lists (RL) review
- Oat-cuisine is a growing trend
- PlantLink News – March
- Reetta Kivelä appointed Raisio’s Chief Innovation Officer
- Saskatchewan: Crop Planning Guide and Crop Planner
- Manitoba: Crop Markets and Statistics
- PlantLink and Good Food Institute are joining forces to support research on plant-based proteins
26 February, 2023
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- AAFC profile: Isabelle Germain
- Tirlán achieve a Gluten Free Standard of less than 5ppm
- Niklas' power is changing (Article in Finnish)
- Cereals purchased, used and stockpiled, Q4 2022 and year 2022
- These oat varieties achieve the highest yield (Article in German)
- Oat price system called dysfunctional
- Three-pronged strategy to beat oat leaf blotch
- NARF Research Review: The response of milling oat varieties to seed date funded by Grain Millers (Video)
- New Zealand's oat growing industry started by Scots pioneers
- A closer look at the Cereal Disease Lab
- No cow needed: Oat and soy can be called milk, FDA proposes
- Sweden focuses on oat value chain
- ECRF/Parkland College: Grain Millers Oat Variety Trials Yorkton 2019 2022 (Video)
- 'Best oats in the world' being sold across the globe
- Prepare to plant spring annuals
- From Niche Crop to Mainstream Success
19 February, 2023
**NEW FEATURE** The Weekly Web Harvest
Articles gleaned from the Web will now be posted here on a weekly basis. These will be listed as found, and not sorted by topic. Articles written by members of the community will also continue to be posted here, and those will be mentioned on the home page.
Let's begin the series with all of the articles found in the last six weeks!
- Oat market driven by feed no more, says analyst
- Tirlán feeds its global ambition with gluten-free oats
- Oats: From the Original Energy Contract to Trendy Dairy Alternative
- Les 20 ans du Prix relève Sollio - Ferme Olofée (Video in French)
- Tirlán Quality Grain Award Winners
- Oats in high demand for milk production
- Tirlán doubles sales of oat-based products
- Oats – from stock feed to health food previous article
- Raisio plc Financial Statements Bulletin 2022
- Breeding innovations: OAT AND SOYBEAN VARIETY DEVELOPMENT
- Cover Cropping on the Rise in Alberta
- DAFM: Spring cereal recommended lists for 2023
- Does a low-gluten diet affect your health? We are looking for participants for the study! (in Finnish)
- Oatly bringing climate labeling to North America
- The good, bad and ugly of value-added
- Oatly appoints new General Manager for Latin America and international markets
- AgMission and PepsiCo Call for Regenerative Agriculture Research
- Demand for oat-based products is growing – Teagasc
- AAFC issues first look at 2023-24
- AEGIC 2021-2022 Annual report
- LinkedIn post re: 'Oatstanding'
- Oats take a hit in first 2023-24 crop estimate
- World Grain: oats in high demand for milk production (page 46)
- Boring Oat Milk in New Zealand
- Aussie plant-based brand MILKLAB steps up marketing efforts to bolster growing presence in South-East Asia
- MOMA Foods to work with university to optimise oat milk
- AAFC Funding to Allow CSGA to Build Modern Certification System
- The history of Little Debbie Snack Cakes
- ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴅ ᴍᴇ ᴀᴛ ᴇᴀᴛ - Ep 21 Gluten Free Mint OREOs, oats & the GF diet, updated celiac ACG guidelines (Podcast)
- Nordic food company ceases dairy to produce oat drinks
- $ 2M Gift to Support Field Crops Research, Teaching at U of G’s Ridgetown Campus
- Gluten Free Watchdog special 2023 statement on the use of oats in the gluten-free diet
- Oatly divesting some manufacturing capabilities in North America
- Fazer is considering laying off almost a hundred people in Kouvola, the chief shop steward: "Such a large scale came as a complete surprise" (in Finnish)
- Poly crop agriculture and the search for the ‘perfect acre’
- Grain Farmers of Ontario: Looking ahead
- Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15
- How to make credible and impressive responsibility communication? (With Helsinki Mills as an example - in Finnish)
- Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): biscuit based comparative study
07 October, 2022
25 August, 2022
30 May, 2022
16 May, 2022
05 May, 2022
07 April, 2022
19 December, 2021
- New Research Leader for the Cereal Crops Research Unit at USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND, USA
- New Oat Genotyping Scientist at USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND, USA
09 November, 2021
- Harvested from the Web: September to mid-November, 2021
- German Federal Council: Schoolchildren should drink more oat milk
11 September, 2021
13 August, 2021
02 June, 2021
- SARDI oat breeding personnel move on after acquisition of the program by InterGrain
- Featuring Ali Babar - University of Florida’s “Plant Breeder of the Month”
20 April, 2021
- Two PhD opportunities at Agroscope, Switzerland, on the CROPDIVA project
- Request for rust samples from the Cereal Disease Lab, USDA-ARS
10 March, 2021
24 February, 2021
- Request for assistance in locating oat molecular marker maps
- Request for collaboration to identify a new crown rust race in Brazil
- NEW POSITION: Research Plant Pathologist/Plant Molecular Geneticist, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Lab, St. Paul, MN
28 January, 2021
- STILL OPEN - Postdoctoral Research Associate position in oat genomics at SDSU
- New Oat Agronomist at USDA-ARS in Brookings, SD
- “Bears eat oats and does eat oats and…what?”
16 December, 2020
28 October, 2020
- Öko-Test's evaluation criteria fail to recognize the realities and complexity of food production
- Post Doctoral Position: Imputation for Database-Wide GWAS USDA-ARS on Cornell University campus
01 September, 2020
05 August, 2020
29 July, 2020
- USDA-ARS Oat Geneticist position available in Fargo, ND
- Postdoctoral Research Associate position in oat genomics available at SDSU
- For your amusement, courtesy of Twitter
20 April, 2020
13 February, 2020
- Mike Bonman is retiring - the celebration is February 27th!
- Britta Hansen moves on from the University of Minnesota and Oat Global
- Harvested from the Web: December, 2019 and January, 2020
18 December, 2019
14 November, 2019
- Oat Global Announcement: Tom Rabaey voted new Chair by OG board 9/27/2019
- Farmers in Europe are unhappy with oat “milk” marketing
- Harvested from the Web: August through October, 2019
02 August, 2019
- 2019 Oat Tour at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa
- Porridge news from Central and Eastern Europe
- Harvested from the Web: May through July, 2019
15 May, 2019
21 March, 2019
21 January, 2019
- Harvested from the Web: December, 2018
- A holiday song about Avena spp. - the Chinese version, by Changzhong Ren (audio only)
13 December, 2018
- Felices fiestas! A holiday song about Avena spp. (video - may take some time to load)
04 December, 2018
02 November, 2018
01 October, 2018
- New Associate Director at Oat Global: Will Zorrilla
- Harvested from the Web: June through September, 2018
01 June, 2018
19 April, 2018
21 March, 2018
26 February, 2018
- South East Research Farm, Redvers, SK, Canada, seeks new research partners
- Request for cereal rust observations and samples from the USA, 2018
19 February, 2018
- So where is Ithaca, anyway? (AAFC/USDA/ORF meetings, Nov. 2017)
- A message from Gabe Gusmini, Oat Global Chair
05 January, 2018
19 December, 2017
31 October, 2017
- Collaboration meeting on oat genome sequencing and exome capture.
- 2017 Oat Tour at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa.
- 2017 Annual Wheat and Oat Field Tour at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (BRDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, MB.
- Harvested from the Web: Aug/Sep/Oct 2017
04 August, 2017
16 June, 2017
05 June, 2017
21 March, 2017
- Spring and Nowruz: Celebrating the Persian New Year
- “Rotationally Raised”, a video series by the Practical Farmers of Iowa
- Harvested from the Web: February/March 2017
29 January, 2017
20 December, 2016
25 August, 2016
- The Legacy of Ken Frey and an Appeal for Help - Åsmund Bjørnstad
- OATS: Shaping the Future - Chris Green
27 May, 2016
- Plan for a New Food Revolution - Vern Burrows
- Postdoc funding opportunities, Aberystwyth University, UK - Catherine Howarth
16 December, 2015
- An Open Letter from Chris Green, Oat Innovations: Oats 2020 Tailpiece
- Door decorating contest at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre, AAFC
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research centres get new names
12 November, 2015
- New oat breeder at the University of Wisconsin
- Changes in oat breeding staff at the University of Minnesota
- Genesys: an online tool to unleash the power of crop diversity
21 September, 2015
- AAFC Brandon Wheat and Oat Field Tour, July 31, 2015
- 2015 North American breeders’ tour
- 2015 Oat Tour at the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa
10 August, 2015
31 May, 2015
- Grain Millers, Inc. announces policy regarding the use of glyphosate on oats
- Oat Oil wins Innovation Prize at in-cosmetics
31 March, 2015
17 February, 2015
- UK oat breeding team receives major funding boost
- Chinese New Year at ECORC, AAFC: Celebrating the Benefits of Scientific and Cultural Exchange
- Chinese New Year begins on February 19th. Have a very happy Year of the Sheep!
21 January, 2015
- To the Immortal Memory…and Absent Friends
- “Oat Scoop” newsletter catches up with Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Fetch
15 December, 2014
- Vern Burrows honoured by Canadian Science and Technology Museum
- Whatever your faith tradition, the Oat Newsletter wishes you a safe and happy holiday season. Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas!
21 September, 2014