Community News
06 May 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Getting greener: How Prairie cereals have reduced their carbon footprint
- Austin Bruch: Sowing oats and barley (Video)
- Savoury oatmeal bowl with veggies and eggs
- Testing oats in the sandy ash from Mt. Hekla, Iceland
- Cinnamon Apple Fig Bircher Muesli
- Dark Sweet Cherry Goat Cheese Oatmeal
- A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture (Peer-reviewed)
- The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue (Peer-reviewed)
- CANTERRA SEEDS Acquires Alliance Seed to Strengthen Seed Business and Expand Distribution Across Western Canada
- Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed
- Photoperiod and ambient temperature control flowering time of cultivated oat genotypes (Peer-reviewed)
- Australia: Winter season starts
- Partial cross-resistance of oats to different Fusarium species and the role of trichomes in susceptibility (Pre-print)
- ADM Agriculture Ltd. Market Report, May 1st
- Growing the Future: COTA Celebrates Visionaries at 2025 Organic Gala and Leadership Awards
- Oats going into great moisture north of Elm Creek, MB (Video)
- Last summer's oat competition third place winner, Ville Koivuniemi, is this season's "Follow a Farmer" star (Video in Finnish)
- Proteomic analysis of oat (Avena sativa L.) under drought stress using tandem mass tag labeling (Peer-reviewed)
- A global assembly of landrace oat (Avena sativa L.) accessions is a discovery resource for adaptive variation, association mapping, and trait deployment (Peer-reviewed)
- Genomics Research on the Road of Studying Biology and Virulence of Cereal Rust Fungi (Peer-reviewed)
- James Hutton Institute joins new organic oat research project
- Birthday Carrot Cake
- Equipment for Planting Cover Crops and Frost Seeding
- The history of oats in Scotland
- Streckel & Schrader Feeding Roll
- After crossing, we pamper our oats with shading and optimal irrigation (Video)
Course offering:
28 April 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- One third of estimated oats now planted in Minnesota
- GrainGenes - April 2025: Improved PanGenome Resources and New Quick Links
- Coffee Oatmeal Banana Almond Smoothie
- Rust on wild oat (Avena fatua)
- Oats grazed 37 days after sowing to test if phenology changes
- Filtering seed guide information for organic farms
- Options Following Winterkilled Small Grains
- Biochar in test plots (Video)
- General Mills boycott reflects rising tide of consumer discontent
- Three partners, one aim
- Intercropping narrow-leaved lupins with oats
- ADM AGRICULTURE WEEKLY MARKET REPORT, 24th April
- FRONTEIRA fodder oat trial results (Post in Spanish)
- Bran Flake Easter Egg Slices
- Mini Prairie cereal rust risk update – April 25, 2025
- Austin Bruch: Winter cereals growing fast, now!
- Labels on Plant-Based Milk Alternatives: What’s On and In the Packaging?
- Cereal Resilience Lab: Drought experiment measurements (Video; in Spanish, with English subtitles))
- Butterscotch Oat Squares
- Oat growth habit
Events:
- Powering Growth: A new era of Ag Sector Partnerships - webinar, 13th May
- 28th Annual POGA AGM, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 3rd December
22 April 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Cereal Resilience Lab: Our oat trial in the field keeps growing! (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting date experiment progress (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Fertilizing, incorporating/weeding, and planting winter oats (Video)
- World oats production is projected to fall slightly in 2025/26
- Spring cereals sown in Ukraine
- 10 Healthy Oat Recipes to Make Any Time of Day
- 6 Reasons to Eat More Oatmeal
- Nice arvo/evening seed cleaning (Video)
- Studying polymorphism of the gene CslF6 associated with β-D-glucan biosynthesis in diploid oat accessions of Avena strigosa Schreb. from the VIR collection (Peer-reviewed; main article in Russian)
- JHI: New study to identify nutritionally superior and yield-stable oat varieties
- Austin Bruch: Feeding the cereals (Video)
- Clif Bar adds caffeine to expand into functional snacking
- Grand Marnier Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies Dusted w/Powdered Sugar
- Cereal Resilience Lab: Taking physiological measurements in our drought stress trial
- InterGrain progresses major WA, Vic projects
- Cropping system rotation in combination with harvest weed seed control for wild oat (Avena fatua) management (Peer-reviewed)
- Drought, Demand, and Dollars are Reshaping What Farmers Put in the Ground — and Wheat’s the Winner
- ITPGRFA Working Group Discusses Payment Structure for Access to Vital Crops
- CDC Anson (Video)
- Intercropping 101: A practical guide for farmers
- Corn planting officially underway in Minnesota
- High-quality genome of allotetraploid Avena barbata provides insights into the origin and evolution of B subgenome in Avena (Peer-reviewed)
- Estimated Field Crops Area, Production and Value - Canada & Maritimes, 2024
14 April 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Austin Bruch: Some new winter oat and barley genetics to sprout and vernalize!
- Small grain planting underway in Iowa
- NW Wheat Stocks In Storage Down 3% Year-Over-Year (plus oat stats)
- 5 Types of Oatmeal and How They Differ
- Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
- USDA to slash headquarters, other staff and relocate some to new 'hubs' around the country
- April 2025: Journal of Agricultural Genomics (1995-2000) is accessible through GrainGenes homepage
- FAR Australia: First seed in the ground in 2025!
- Streckel & Schrader Groat Cutter Krone 2 for steel cut groats
- Oat observation trials in Uruguay (Video in Spanish)
- Pistachio Chocolate Granola Bites
- GIWA Crop Report – April 2025
- AFIA Hay Report – 11 April 2025
- Comparative analysis of centromeres of oat (Avena sativa) and its tetraploid and diploid relatives reveals rapid evolution of centromere composition and architecture (Preprint)
- New study to identify nutritionally superior and yield-stable oat varieties
- "How early" to sow oats in Western Australia
- Separating oats and mustard (Video)
- Harrowing organic spring oats
- Spring oats and barley in the Scottish Borders
- AGC report to Industry, Spring, 2025
Opportunities:
- New job: Assistant Director - North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
- GRDC International Visiting Fellowships Program 2025/26
Events:
- NAPB Graduate Students - webinar with Dr. Craig Beil from Breeding Insight, 18th April
- This Spring the Whole Grain Academy is in Session (30th April)
07 April 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Summary report: 13th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
- Ascorbic acid priming restores the seed vigor by enhancing the mitochondrial AsA-GSH cycle and related gene expression in the aged oat seeds (Peer-reviewed)
- Winter oat roots
- Cheesy Oatcake-Topped Cottage Pie
- Health hazards are often overlooked risks on the farm
- Crossing Avena strigosa
- Trials have started for 2025 out at Southern Cross
- Thread: Why is the U.S. not growing more oats?
- Taner Sen has joined the AgBioData Steering Committee
- CROPDIVA: Performance of 250 facultative oat varieties
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats update (Video)
- Austin Bruch: More cold wet weather (Video)
- Austin Bruch: A warmer day (Video)
- Genome-wide analysis of the phosphate transporter gene family in oats: insights into phosphorus and water deficiency responses (Peer-reviewed)
- Chocolate Blackberry Brandy Oatmeal Bake
- Powdery mildew Fridays - sowing new plants to keep powdery mildew alive (Video)
- Separating a pea/mustard/oat mix (Video)
- USDA Prepares for 'Reduction in Force'
- Monogram 2025 Programme booklet
- Weeding organic spring oats
- UK farmers urged to complete AHDB’s crop survey for 2025
- Field of winter Mascani oats
- Fluid Bed Dryer: Perfect for oats, maize, barley, wheat and spelt (Video)
- First oat and wheat trials are in the ground at Mount Barker, WA
- 'Revolutionary' high-protein oats 'supercharge' Bob’s Red Mill breakfast options
- Crossing season in Córdoba, Spain!
- "Oat-tastic" teaching resources
- Manitoba Guide to Field Crop Protection 2025
- GRDC National Variety Trials - Harvest reports
- The solution to sustained cereal variety development may be more obvious than we think (Text and video)
- Bio-fertilizer and rotten straw amendments alter the rhizosphere bacterial community and increase oat productivity in a saline–alkaline environment (Peer-reviewed)
- Making oat cookies at InterGrain (Video)
Opportunities:
- The NAPB Graduate Students working group is inviting all Graduate students to submit their work pictures for a contest
- COGGO Research Fund: Applications for 2026 grant funding
- The Atlantic Grains Council is looking for research participants
Events:
- 17th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference, Perth, Australia, 4th-6th June
- German Conference on Bioinformatics, Düsseldorf, Germany, 22nd-24th September - Call for abstracts
31 March 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- ASPB Calls for Support of NPGS (USDA-ARS genebank)
- What is a Genebank?
- Metabolomic approaches suggest two mechanisms of drought response post-anthesis in Mediterranean oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars (Peer-reviewed)
- Examples of intercropping (Video)
- Faba bean-oat field trial
- Canadian Oats - Feed your heart, body and mind: More than a century of quality and nutrition
- Vegan Oat Paella
- Cereal Resilience Lab update (Video)
- 20th Session of the UN FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Summary report, 24–28 March 2025
- 13th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
- Waterlogging Does Not Have a Lasting Impact on Yield Performance and Micronutrient Status of Oat (Avena sativa) (Peer-reviewed)
- Oat Coated Chicken Nuggets with Sweet Potato Wedges
- Chocolate Rhubarb Chèvre Sauce w/Pecans on Baked Oatmeal
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat update (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Back to winter (Video)
- Plant-based milk’s makeover: Fixing sales and perception
- Seeding Rates and Depth Test for Drilling Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- How Do Small Grains Grow and Develop? Harnessing This Knowledge To Improve Management (Video)
- Pasture Genetics: Oat observation rows 2025 (Video in Spanish)
- Pasture Genetics: Forage oat trials sown on 29/1 (Video in Spanish)
- Alpro to source 100% British oats directly from British farmers
Events:
- PFI Shared learning call with Jochum Wiersma, UMN: "Preventing and Managing Disease in Oats", online, 11th April
- UK Plant Phenomics Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 3rd-4th September
24 March 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Pasture Genetics: Oat trials 2025 (Video in Spanish)
- Pasture Genetics: Forage oat trials sown on 29/1 (Video in Spanish)/li>
- Best Vegan Black Bean Burgers with Oats & Peanuts
- Weather to affect seeding plans more than tariffs
- Global oat stocks are tentatively forecast to climb markedly in 2025/26
- EU Grain Forecast by COCERAL - March 2025
- Austin Bruch: Time to plant the last winter oats (Slide show)
- Austin Bruch: Winter survival (Slide show)
- Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
- The success of IBERS
- Sexual recombination in cereal rust fungi: Knowns and unknowns of pathogen evolution and adaptation (Peer-reviewed)
- Traditional STAFFORDSHIRE OATCAKES 18th century (Video)
- Planting 'Jerry' and 'Rushmore'
- Guinness Oat Bread (Video)
- Spring sowing in Ukraine
17 March 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats in Ontario, Canada (Video)
- Winter oats in Northern Ireland
- Sowing oats in Northern Ireland
- Sowing oats in Kansas, USA
- Interview with Elena Prats – Radio Andalucía Information (Interview in Spanish)
- Oatmeal Pancakes Eggs Benedict
- Product Spotlight: Selecting Oat & Pulse Varieties with Colin Tanner FP Genetics (Video)
- Fixation of oat leaves inoculated with the pathogenic fungus powdery mildew for microscopic assessment (Video)
- Canada to seed more wheat, less canola in 2025: StatCan
- BEHST: Value-Added Processing Equipment
- Canola could lose out as farmers plan for tariff
- CROPDIVA practice abstract #4.7: Intercropping and Food Safety
- Raisio publishes a strategy based on three growth areas, revises its organisational structure and initiates change negotiations
- Raisio Plc 2024 Annual Review and Corporate Responsibility Report
- ECRF: Grain Millers Oat Variety Trials 2019 to 2024 (Video)
- COCERAL CROP FORECAST | March 2025
- Fat balls for birds
Job opportunity:
Events:
10 March 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Oats and Peas: Market Leaders with Strong End-Use Relationships
- Consumers have chosen Elovena® as Finland's most sustainable brand for the second year running!
- Apple & Raspberry Muffins
- Searching for more resistant cereals (Article in Spanish)
- How can cereals be better adapted to climate change? (Article in Spanish)
- IAS-CSIC researchers are working on improving cereals in the face of climate change (Article in Spanish)
- Baileys Non-Dairy Liqueur will be on US shelves in March
- Austin Bruch: Winter cereals emerging (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat check (Video)
- Austin Bruch: More winter oats (Video)
- Soybean patties with oat flakes, onion and garlic
- At PGDC Last Week, All Eyes Were on Black Barley, Purple Wheat and Supercharged Oats
- Grain Growers of Canada react to U.S. tariffs
- GIWA predicts WA crop at 22.42Mt, marking the third-largest yield in history
- Genome-wide association for multiple quantitative traits in forage oat germplasm based on specific length amplified fragment sequencing (Peer-reviewed)
- Coupling proteomics and lipidomics for insights into regulation of oat (Avena sativa) grain lipid synthesis (Peer-reviewed)
- Manitoba cropping projects to receive research funding
- Controlling wild oats
- New oat from Mike McMullen and Sepehr Naraghi: ND Carson
- Another new oat from Mike McMullen and Sepehr Naraghi: ND Spilde
- Agroforestry
- CROPDIVA testing: Plant-based beverages & spreads
- The challenge of trials....
Opportunity:
Events:
- Alliance Seed Winter Webinar: Oat Breeding, with Jim Dyck, 20th March
- NextGen Breeders Workshop ahead of the 17th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference in Perth, Australia, 3rd June
03 March 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Sowing Oats for Science: Preparing for Powdery Mildew Inoculation at IES in Spain (Video)
- A Close Look at Drill Components for Seeding Oats and Red Clover - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- Beyond ‘Random Acts of Oats’
- Which Whole Grains Foods Does the FDA Consider "Healthy?"
- The Agronomists, Ep 186: Ultra early seeding with Dr. Brian Beres and Tyler McBlain (Video)
- Creamy Mascarpone Oatmeal Recipe Is Like Dessert for Breakfast (7 Ingredients, 10 Minutes)
- The 2024 Annual Crop Inventory map of Manitoba is finished
- Wild Oats - our oldest weed?
Events:
- PFI Shared learning calls on-line: March 7th and April 11th
- Hands on training in high-throughput phenotyping: University of Florida, Wimauma, FL, USA, 25-27 April
Research funding:
24 February 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- USDA Terminates Thousands of Workers
- Experts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab
- Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
- U.S. gene banks, key to new crops, hobbled by Trump job cuts
- Three new inductees added to Alberta Agriculture’s Hall of Fame
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat check-in (Video)
- 2024/25 end-season oats stocks in the EU are forecast markedly higher y/y
- Proteomic and lipidomic analyses reveal novel molecular insights into oat (Avena sativa L.) lipid regulation and crosstalk with starch synthesis during grain development (Peer-reviewed)
- The best doggone homemade dog treats
- Juan Arbelaez: 3 pm pollen shower! (Video)
- Juan Arbelaez: modified ssd sand pots (Video; thread)
- Harvest statistics 2024: good harvest of oats and peas, weak rye harvest (Article in Finnish)
- Assessing the performance of generative artificial intelligence in retrieving information against manually curated genetic and genomic data (Peer-reviewed)
- The 2024 Crop Inventory for Ontario is now available
- Uncovering the Truth on Plant Breeders’ Rights
- A New Benchmark for Spring Oats: Elsoms Introduce Caledon
Opportunity:
Events:
- PFI's 2025 Midwest Covers & Grains Conference, Baraboo, WI, USA, 5th March
- International Symposium on Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems, Regensburg, Germany, 28th September - 1st October
17 February 2025
**Please take note of the document discussing communications strategies from February 13th (just below today's post)**
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- What attracts consumers to whole grains and where is there room for innovation?
- Waterlogging Does Not Have a Lasting Impact on Yield Performance and Micronutrient Status of Oat (Avena sativa) (Peer-reviewed)
- GIWA Crop Report – February 2025
- Oat crossing season at the University of Illinois
- Sweet Potato Rolled Oat Protein Pancakes
- Austin Bruch: Weird oat development (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Oat breeding (Video)
- Raisio plc Financial Statements Bulletin 2024
- Chocolate Granola Strawberries
- Magic Breakfast | Transforming mornings for SEND schoolchildren (Video)
- From breakfast to dinner: How to use oats in every meal
- Real Ag Radio Feb 3 2025: Product spotlight on FP genetics (Video)
- 'Scotty' oats in Chile (Video; in Spanish)
Events:
13 February 2025
10 February 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Matcha Latte Oats
- Oats in Kenya
- Oaty Pizza with Squash, Broccoli and Red Onion
- Austin Bruch: Crop planning (Video)
- February is Heart Month!
- Birthday Cake Pancakes
- Total Acreage by Crop for Ontario
- U.S. tariffs would affect Canadian crops differently
- ADM Agriculture, Ltd., Market Report, 06 February
- Black Bottom Oatmeal Pie
- What’s on your seed?
- A game changer for Aussie growers: Celebrating 20 years of NVT (Video)
- The GRDC NVT 2024 long term yield results for Oats
- CULTIVATING COLLABORATION: ENGAGING THE FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY ON GLOBAL ACTION FOR CROP DIVERSITY
- Savory Oats Hash – Indian Oats Poha Upma
- Oats Everyday: Oats and Your Health
- Do new oat varieties respond to increasing nitrogen rate differently than old varieties? Ganmain 2024
- U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Cereals Will Hurt North American Consumers
- Crusted Salmon Puttanesca
- Ultimate Tomato Soup
- Factors affecting nutrient losses in hay production (Peer-reviewed)
- Fusarium head blight in oats
Events:
- 3rd Nordic Field Trials Network (NFTN) Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 03-05 March
- PFI: Midwest Covers & Grains Conference, Baraboo, WI, USA, 05 March
- The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG) Asia 2025, New Delhi, India, 18-20 March
- 8th Conference on Cereal Biotechnology and Breeding and 19th EWAC: The European Cereals Genetics Co-operative Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 November
03 February 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Managing Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) webinar recording (Video)
- Grainews Cereals Guide
- U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Grain Will Cost American Families, Says GGC
- Weed control in winter crops
- AHDB: Cereals supply and demand estimates for 2024/2025
- PFI: Small Grains News 2024: A Year in Review
- NVT: A test for pathogen resistance
- Scanning roots (Video)
- Australian Grain Science Association Newsletter, January 2025
- Mini Chocolate Birthday Cake
- CROPDIVA project newsletter
- A gap-free complete genome assembly of oat and OatOmics, a multi-omics database (Correspondence)
- Oatmeal Prawn Dumplings
- Oatmeal Raisin Bread
- Gathering oat hay bales (Video)
- PFI: Oat Variety Trial 2024
- EVALUATION OF PRIMERS TO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE Pc GENES USING THE SIBERIAN OAT GENETIC SELECTION (Peer-reviewed - abstract in English, article in Russian)
- Strawberry + Oats Lassi (Video)
Events:
- How Do Small Grains Grow and Develop? Harnessing This Knowledge To Improve Management? PFI Webinar, 04 February
- German Conference on Bioinformatics, Dusseldorf, Germany, 22-24 September
27 January 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Identification, characterization, and design of plant genome sequences using deep learning (Peer-reviewed)
- Assessing crop productivity, grain quality, and soil labile carbon and nitrogen in pea-based intercrops under low nitrogen input (Peer-reviewed)
- Peanut Butter Acai Bowl
- Fibre is 'nature's Ozempic' - but 90 per cent of us don't eat enough
- Oat acres may climb, but how much?
- Wholemeal Oat Bran Bread
- What Happens if AAFC No Longer Develops Field-Ready Cultivars?
- PrOatein Oat protein
- Stamp Seeds: Forages week
- Kari Alasaari: "I am responsible for the oats I grow, all the way to the consumer" (Article in Finnish)
- A New Benchmark for Spring Oats
- Photosynthetic performance and carbon metabolism in the ear organs of oats under drought stress (Peer-reviewed)
- The YEN 2024 Gold Oats Award
- Data reuse in agricultural genomics research: challenges and recommendations (Peer-reviewed)
- Summary of 2024 oat testing data from Gluten Free Watchdog
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat check part 1 (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat check part 2 (Video)
Events:
- Seed World Canada webinar - Future-Ready Plant Breeding: Insights from Canada's Rising Stars, 21 February
- 10th Genomic selection course, Madrid, Spain, 19-23 May 2025
- VI EUCARPIA Scientific Conference on Breeding to meet environmental and societal challenges, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 May
20 January 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Overnight Oats
- Atholl Brose (with and without cream)
- White’s Oats now available in Tesco NI
- Scottish Carrot, Banana and Chocolate Chip Flapjacks
- Savoury oatmeal bowl with veggies and eggs
- Cranachan, A Lovely Scottish Dessert
- Oat Bran Morning Glory Muffins
- Interactive SaskSeed Guide
- Global oat stocks
- Bridal Veil Oatmeal Cookies
- Coconut & Apricot Energy Balls
- What to do when an ally turns into a serious threat?
- Cutting N on oats can pay off, if it’s drier
- Crop Production Show 2025: New herbicide tackles resistance in wild oats
- Crop Production Show 2025: U.S. tariffs could impact Canadian oat market as early as next week
- Crop Production Show 2025: Oat beers having a moment
- Red Velvet Overnight Oats
- Maul of the wild
- Peanut Butter Granola Apple Wheels
- Porridge maker celebrating 350 years in the milling business (Video)
- InterGrain: crossing oats & sowing barley & wheat
- Payoffs and pressures for cereals in a changing Prairie climate
- Saskatchewan Crops Profile (formerly Specialty Crop Report)
- ADAMA Canada adds new herbicide for wild oat control
- We Need to Act Now to Safeguard Plant Breeding
- AAFC podcast: Episode 031 - Plant breeding: Long-game innovation in a fast-changing world (Podcast)
- Baked PB&J Oat Cups
- Varieties of Grain Crops for Saskatchewan 2025
- Cover cropping pays off for Alberta producer
Events:
- Alberta Oat Growers Commission AGM, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 27 January
- National Tillage Conference 2025, Kilkenny, Ireland, 29 January
- Manitoba Oat Growers Association AGM, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 12 February
- Cereals, Leadenham, Lincs, UK, 11-12 June
- 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference (ICRPMC2025), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 15-20 June
- European Plant Phenomics Symposium 2025, Bonn, Germany, 16-19 September
Funding opportunity:
13 January 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Alberta Seed Guide variety trial results
- Two new varieties of spring oats make the cut
- How to Make Oatmeal (Taste Better – by a Scottish Porridge Champion)
- Grower Group Alliance 2023-2024 annual report
- Celebrating 20 years of GRDC’s National Variety Trials
- Simple grain recipes
- New Richardson CEO steps in
- Trying out Stoller’s X-Cite™ on an oat field
- NDSU: Langdon Research Extension Center 2024 Annual Report
- Spring Cereal Recommended Lists 2025 (Ireland)
- As AAFC’s Role Evolves, We Need to Act Now to Safeguard Plant Breeding (Podcast)
- Integration of machine learning and genome-wide association study to explore the genomic prediction accuracy of agronomic trait in oats (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- Dissecting the genetic basis of grain weight and size in common oat by genome-wide association study (Peer-reviewed)
- Genome-Wide Association Mapping of QTL Underlying Groat Protein Content of a Diverse Panel of Oat Accessions (Peer-reviewed)
- Arla's plant-based range flops (Article in Swedish; paywall)
- Austin Bruch: Cold but not frozen! (Video)
- Effects of genotype and environment on the physiochemical properties of Canadian oat varieties (Peer-reviewed)
- 92% of horticulture and cereals exported in 2024 went to UK
- Farmer led results show the benefits of intercropping
- "Pía INTA", the new variety of white oats from INTA Bordenave, Argentina (Video in Spanish)
- GROWING ORGANIC OATS IN 2025
- Albert Lea project awarded $1.5M through USDA, state grant
- CGIAR Appoints Dr. Sandra Milach as Chief Scientist – New Role to Focus on Ensuring CGIAR Research and Innovation Deliver Impact
- Data from 2024 field trials at INTA Bordenave, Argentina (Text in Spanish)
- FDA recommends plant-based foods prominently state main ingredient
- Apple Pie Porridge
- Stamp Seeds: 2025 Seed Guide RVT Tables
- Congratulations to Dr. Zhou Zhou, on securing a faculty position at Purdue University
- New cereals on deck for 2025
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat check-in (Video)
- Wheat and honey oat loaf
Event:
- SaskOats Annual General Meeting & Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (and on-line), 15 January
- GRDC Grains Research Update - Perth, WA, Australia, 24-25 February
- 8TH INTERNATIONAL WHOLE GRAIN SUMMIT 2025, Detmold, Germany, 31 March - 02 April
- AFIA: NATIONAL FODDER CONFERENCE 2025, Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort, Gold Coast, Australia, 22-24 July
Job opportunity:
06 January 2025
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Blueberry Banana Smoothie Recipe - Cheerios
- Vegan Plum Crumble with Oats
- Savory Oatmeal
- Cranberry Oatmeal Bake
- Flahavan's Lovely Doubly Baked TV (Ad) (Video)
- Celebrate 350 incredible years of Mornflake (Video)
- Santosh Gudi: finishing a very big drought stress experiment on oat landraces
- Linwoods: 2024 wrapped (Video)
- Exceptional growth rates continue for winter barley, wheat and oats
- A robot for working grain stores
- Regions of Ontario and farming: Lesson plan and activity
- Iowa Cover Crop: 2024 wrapped (Video)
- Prosecco Oat Bran Chocolate Truffles
- Seeds Adapted to Mixed Cropping Increase Yield and Drought Resistance of Cereal–Legume Mixtures (Peer-reviewed)
30 December 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Thread about making proper porridge
- Overnight Oatmeal
- USDA Cover Crop Chart
- Baked Camembert with Oat Bran Crackers
- Nutritious Ontario grains
- Are cereal grasses a single genetic system? (Peer-reviewed)
- Black Oat a Possible Alternative Forage Species in Northeast
- Lodging in Cereals in 2024
- Chocolate Covered Oatmeal Peanut Butter Truffle
- Honey Oat Cookies
- Cream Cheese Oatmeal Cookies
- Spring Oats: Planting Tips & Marketing Strategies with James Forster (Video)
23 December 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Holiday festive food guide
- Reindeer food
- Intensive cropping influences the success of seed dormancy breaking methods in Australian collected Hordeum, Avena, and Bromus sp. (Peer-reviewed)
- Winter Vegetable Crumble
- Rum Raisin Oatmeal Cookies
- Weeds, pests, and disease
- Unlocking the Potential of the Soil: Boosting Forage Nutrition With Extended Rotations
- Santa's Tractor Adventure - Print out and colour
- Canadian Harvest Sample Program - deadline extended
- Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
- General Mills cuts profit outlook as promotions rise to win back consumers
- Safe storage guidelines for grain
- Mince Pie Porridge
- Genetic Mapping of the Powdery Mildew Resistance Gene Pm13 on Oat (Avena sativa) Chromosome 1D (Peer-reviewed)
- AEGIC Corporate Video 2024
- Apple Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
- Cranberry & Orange Oaty Bliss Balls
- ADAS: Ergot project
- Defra publishes 2024 UK grain and OSR production figures
- POGA: Oat Buyers List
PhD Opportunity:
Job Opportunities:
- Research Geneticist (Research Associate), USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND, USA
- Assistant Professor Position in Field Crop Pathology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA
Research partnership:
Event:
- The Art of Crop Nutrient Budgeting: Training for Agronomists - four virtual sessions, February, 2025
16 December 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- “Biggest event in WA grains industry” set to return in February
- Chestnut, Parsnip & Sage Oatmeal Stuffing
- Production of Specialty Small Grains in Wisconsin
- Richardson International to expand oat processing facility
- Egg-Free Eggnog
- GIWA Crop Report – December 2024
- Oat, barley production estimates bumped higher
- Coming Soon! Including Sample Location and Collection Date and Time for Sequences Submitted to GenBank and SRA
- Agricultural Census in Northern Ireland 2024
- Congratulations to Professor Robert Park on being a finalist in the 2024 Shaping Australia Awards
- EUFIC granola recipe (Video)
- A Christmas tree charcuterie board! (Video)
- No-bake healthy brownies
- Gingerbread Oatmeal Porridge
- Watermelon Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie
- MadeGood Granola Bar Voluntary Recall
- Seven steps to successful spring cereals
- Oatmeal Fudge
- Award-winning new product from Linwoods
- AHDB: New Recommended Lists (RL) delivers exciting mainstream and niche varieties
09 December 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Farmer Ari Siivonen - Luukas is the oats of the future (Article in Finnish)
- Bailey's Irish Cream Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies
- Austin Bruch: Conditions that allow for overall greater plant productivity (Video)
- Weekend oatmeal prep (Video)
- Chocolate Beet Brownies
- OLD FASHIONED OATMEAL BARS
- OATMEAL RAISIN SWIRL BREAD
- Gingerbread Cookies
- Elsoms unveil their ‘magnificent seven’ as new Recommended List is announced
- White’s Oats raise the bar with new soft-baked Oaty snack
- InterGrain seed availability
- KWS stores more than one million seed samples in its new Seed Inventory (Video)
- ANNUAL NRS GRAIN SURVEY RESULTS RELEASED
- Dairy UK wins ‘milk’ trademark appeal against oat drink brand
- Oatly not to be labelled as ‘milk’ after battle with Dairy UK
- Screening ~250 oat landraces under drought stress for a changing climate
- Wheat Pete’s Word, Dec 4: A winter wallop, too-big canola, phosphorus availability, and killing oats (Video)
- Canola, oats particularly vulnerable to tariffs
- The near-complete genome assembly of hexaploid wild oat reveals its genome evolution and divergence with cultivated oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Gingerbread Smoothie Bowl
- Identification of reference genes for gene expression assessment in Avena sativa under biotic stress triggered by Blumeria graminis (Peer-reviewed)
- Forage Yield and Quality of Forage Oat Varieties Harvested at Two Stages of Maturity
- Domestication of Avena magna Murphy et Terrell: a wild tetraploid oat species endemic of Morocco (Peer-reviewed; article in Russian)
- What Are We Learning from Plant Pangenomes? (Peer-reviewed)
- Mighty Merlin – the record-breaking spring oat!
- Wild oat seeds spread in chaff
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats under 26”/66cm of snow ((Video)
- Canadian grain harvest and export quality
- SimpleMating: R-package for prediction and optimization of breeding crosses using genomic selection (Peer-reviewed)
PhD Opportunity:
Funding Opportunity:
Events:
- SeCan's 2025 Variety Rundown, webinar, 7th January, 2025
- Atlantic Grains Council: Cereals and Oilseeds 2025, Centreville, NB, Canada, 5th February, 2025
- Registration is Now Open for NAMA Spring Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 8th-11th March, 2025
- 10th Genomic Selection Course, Madrid, Spain, 19th-23rd May, 2025
02 December 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Genome-Wide Identification of the Lectin Receptor-like Kinase Gene Family in Avena sativa and Its Role in Salt Stress Tolerance (Peer-reviewed)
- Flahavan’s Oat Bran returns to elevate baking season
- Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies
- Winter oats make the difference on Down dairy farm
- Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Masters student Sakerun Nahar is investigating oat milk production using Australian oat varieties
- Luke's harvest statistics, 2024 (Article in Finnish)
- A high-resolution haplotype collection uncovers somatic hybridization, recombination and intercontinental movement in oat crown rust (Uncorrected proof)
- What is digital sequence information (DSI)?
- Oatmeal as a whole grain food
- Oatmeal pancakes
- Export fodder projects underpin a growing global market
- AHDB Early Bird Survey
- Steffen Beuch presents CROPDIVA findings
- Do dwarf oat varieties have dwarf roots (Video)
- FP Genetics at the Grain Millers Pedigreed Seed Show
- 2025 WA Crop Sowing Guide
- Dietary Effects of Black-Oat-Rich Polyphenols on Production Traits, Metabolic Profile, Antioxidative Status, and Carcass Quality of Fattening Lambs (Peer-reviewed)
- A nuclear phylogenomic tree of grasses (Poaceae) recovers current classification despite gene tree incongruence (Peer-reviewed)
- SDSU Oat Variety Trial Results
- Canada: Outlook for Principal Field Crops, 2024-11-19
Event:
Job opportunity:
PhD opportunity:
26 November 2024
25 November 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Winter cereal area estimated up almost 27,000ha
- Apple Cranberry Crisp (Easy and Delicious)
- GIWA Crop Report – November 2024
- The International Grains Council forecasts 2024/25 global oats production to rebound y/y
- Teagasc estimates 1.9m tonnes of cereals produced
- Oatmeal Marshmallow Fudge Bars
- Can I test management strategies for weedy oats
- Ontario Cereal Crops Committee: Access the latest performance trial results
- Chocolate Topped Granola & Nut Bars
- Senova: Top Tips for Growing Oats
- 2-Shot Oatmeal After Dinner Drink
- Developmental constraint underlies the replicated evolution of grass awns (Peer-reviewed)
- Action models in grain reception with regard to DON toxins (Article in Finnish)
- AUSTRALIAN GRAINS SHOWCASE HELD IN CANBERRA
- Lemon Nut Bars
- Whole Grains
- M&M Oatmeal Cookies
- Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Smoothie
- Ultimate Greens Lasagne
- Curious about the International PLant Treaty?
- WHOLE GRAINS FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE
PhD opportunity:
18 November 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Whole Grain Week 2024
- Speedy Cheddar and Onion Soda Bread
- Sticky Toffee Pudding Baked Oats
- New oat mill processing facility coming to Albert Lea
- Gallery: Winners of Teagasc research and innovation photo competition (Oat kernel photo)
- Production losses caused by red leather leaf in hay and milling oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Ontario grain granola cups
- SEPWA Variety Trials program
- Variety selection at InterGrain with Alex Taylor
- Fungal Diseases and Mycotoxins in Grain
- Easy Vegan Hazelnut & Raisin Cookies
- Premium crops, rotations and planting winter crops in Waterford
- Yukon’s Farming Frontier is Open for Trailblazers
- Can I test management strategies for weedy oats
- Metabolomic approaches suggests two mechanisms of drought response post anthesis in Mediterranean oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars (Pre-print)
- The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
- South Australian Crop Sowing Guide
- Cutting nitrogen pays off in oats — if it’s drier
Events:
12 November 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Good in Every Grain: November meal plan
- Cheerios is officially the UK's No.1 Multigrain Cereal Brand
- Austin Bruch: Growing points (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting date experiment (Video)
- Improving oat yields in Western Australia through the Yield per se Project
- Organic Matters podcast, with suckler and tillage farmer Jim Stafford (Podcast)
- Rhubarb Crumble Porridge (Video)
- Reducing risk of grain legume production through intercropping in temperate climates
- Sticky Apple Crumble Overnight Oats
- A finite mixture distribution to model genetic architecture of image-based oat grain morphology (Peer-reviewed)
- Brie, Pumpkin & Cranberry Toastie with an Oat Bran Crisp
- Quality of western Canadian oats in 2024
- Raisio plc’s Interim Report January-September 2024
- Ringspot is caused by a bacterium and there are many host plants (Infographic in Finnish)
- New strategies for tackling problem weeds
- White's Oats' "Making Good Mornings" campaign (Video)
- Scottish Blackberry & Pear Crumble
- Flahavan’s seeks more organic oat growers to meet demand
- November is Diabetes Awareness Month
Events:
- Flahavan's Organic Grower Event, Curraheen, Ireland, 19th November
- Seed World webinar: Leveraging AI for accurate seed variety identification, 20th November
- 2024 Agronomy Research Update, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 10th-11th December
- Atlantic Grains Council: 2025 Cereal and Oilseeds Conference, Centerville, NB, Canada, 5th February, 2025
04 November 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Ag. groups reject Bloc bill on supply managed sector trade talks
- The Oats Class at this year’s Grain Millers Harvest Showdown Grain Show
- MADFIG: New website
- Tillage Management: sowing and spraying winter crops
- Cover crop oats harvested for next year's cover crop (Includes video)
- 10-Minute Microwave Apple Crisp for One
- Mayo cereal grower reaps the rewards of improved weather conditions
- Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream
- Companion cropping in Wallonia, Belgium
- Oat crown rust birthday cake!
- Whole grain switch challenge urges people to improve their health – and the planet’s at the same time
- Waterford family wins Flahavan's oat grower of the year award
- Flahavan’s announces Oat Grower of the Year
- This Spanish cheese with oat is gorgeous and gluten free!
- Fazer Mill's quality requirements and quality pricing (Article in Finnish)
- Progress of the 2024 Harvest was Well Above Average
- Increase in isolated plants of new oat varieties and controls and varietal maintenance (Video in Spanish)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats - 5th planting date (Video)
- Oddlygood acquires Rude Health – on its way to become one of the leading plant-based companies in Europe
- Valio's oat drink company Oddlygood buys a British competitor (Article in Finnish)
- Statement on the conclusion of the food safety investigation related to the recall of various Silk and Great Value brand plant-based refrigerated beverages
Events:
- "In honour of International Whole Grains Day on November 19, 2024, we’re launching our month-long ‘Switch To Whole Grains’ pledge."
- Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference, Des Moines, IA, USA, 10-11 January, 2025
28 October 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Do you use the PestFacts WA map?
- Tillage: Quantifying threat posed by BYDV in cereals
- Allan Rattey: Late April sown Corrigin NVT
- Spurred by the ‘oat mafia,’ the familiar grain makes a comeback in Minnesota
- Founding council members Will Carrington-Jones and Chris Maughan step down from GIWA Oat Council
- Air Fryer Golden Syrup Flapjacks
- How Norfolk estate targets £1,000/ha gross margins
- "Oaten hay is getting slapped into a bale." (Video)
- Cleaning a bi-crop trial
- Tomato Gnocchi Bake with Cheesy Oat Crumble
- Study on Optimal Nitrogen Application for Different Oat Varieties in Dryland Regions of the Loess Plateau (Peer-reviewed)
- OpenView Market Report: Exclusive to this week we have included beans and oats (October 24th) (Podcast)
- Tirlán confirms grain pricing for harvest 2024
- Australian winter crop forecast – slight uptick, but weather woes temper size of harvest: Rabobank Australia
- Organic All-Stars: First Irish Organic Champion Crowned at 2024 National Organic Awards
- Chocolate Coconut Truffles
- Milling grains into value-added food ideas
- Techno-Functional and Sensory Characterization of Commercial Plant Protein Powders (Peer-reviewed)
- Austin Bruch: Winter cereals update (Slide show with video)
- Interplay©: a support tool to help novice farmers choose cereal-legume intercrops - IntercropVALUES Practice Abstract
Events:
- "Pablo Sandro will defend his PhD in Farmer driven breeding strategies for oats and wheat next Friday November 1. Zoom link in flyer. Please join!" (Advisor: Lucia Gutierrez)
- Webinar: Can we use genomic selection to breed for intercropping? Early efforts with cover crops and other mixtures - November 8th
Call for papers:
- Crop Science special section: 'Breeding with Major Genes for Disease Resistance' - deadline December 31st (Other special sections are also listed)
21 October 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting date experiment Year 2
- Alberta Crop Report - Crop conditions as of October 15, 2024
- "Agribashing" (Cartoon in French)
- Oatcakes on the griddle
- Composted oat hulls as fertilizer (Video)
- Photo story: Harvest equipment
- Sulfur may reduce cereal forage nitrate levels
- We Need More Than Just Checkoff Dollars to Bring New Seed to Farmers
- Manitoba Crop Report, 16 October
- World oats consumption in 2024/25 is forecast to rise slightly y/y
- GIWA Crop Report – October 2024
- Confirmation of oat crown rust disease in Taiwan (Peer-reviewed)
- Carotenoid-carbohydrate crosstalk: evidence for genetic and physiological interactions in storage tissues across crop species (Peer-reviewed)
- Flahavans has won the Best Irish Organic Product Export Award
- National Organic Awards winners revealed
- Irish heritage oats of all shapes and sizes
- UK flooding woes (Video)
- An allometry perspective on crops (Peer-reviewed)
- Oats and vetch silage
- New AgriScience Project supporting cereal and oilseed producers in Atlantic Canada
- Lipids in oats suppress the appetite (Article in Swedish)
- Tastes of the World - a Scottish-Asian Fusion
- Government invests millions in Canadian cereals
- Feds announce $7.3 million for Cereals Canada
- Genome-Wide Identification of NAC Family Genes in Oat and Functional Characterization of AsNAC109 in Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Peer-reviewed)
- The team approach to cover crop mixtures
- Gluten Free Mini Pumpkin Spiced Loaves
Job opportunity:
14 October 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Cultivating Success: Bridging the Gaps in Plant Breeding Training in Australia, Canada, and NZ (Video)
- NDSU Variety Trial Selection Tool
- Grain farmers in the South are doing well (Article in Icelandic)
- New CEO, several promotions at Grain Millers
- Get the most from small grain silages
- Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
- Pumpkin Spiced Baked Oats
- Grains Australia Year in Review 2023/24
- Harvesting 2024 oat establishment plots (Video)
- Get Faster, More Focused Search Results with NCBI’s New BLAST Core Nucleotide Database (core_nt)
- Avena (Wild oat) Integrated Weed Management Model
- Senova: Precision oat drilling in action!
- Harmonize rules for digital sequence information benefit-sharing across UN frameworks (Peer-reviewed)
- "A matrix of crop maturities appears as the barley/oat crop dries & awaits harvest"
- Freshly Squeezed Oatmeal Lemon Squares
VOTE!
Farmer-Researcher opportunities:
Events:
- Growing and processing intercrops - a LEGUMINOSE event, Malmsbury, UK, 25 October
- 17th APBC Australasian Plant Breeding Conference, Perth, Australia, 4th-6th June, 2025
07 October 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Brits' weirdest breakfast combinations - including curry sauce on porridge
- Smuts in cereals – this year and going forward
- Genebanks made to order for the 21st century
- Australian Oats
- Meet the team: Dr Sabori Mitra – Senior Research Scientist – Oats
- Austin Bruch: Winter cereal update (Video)
- Grupo Vida plant tour by Canadian delegates
- NAMA meeting highlights slideshow
- AHDB spring oats harvest results
- New Regulations on the Registration of Plant Varieties in Türkiye
- New pathways for nematode control explored
- NVT new variety series – Sorghum, Barley and Oats (Podcast)
- How whole grains impact mood and energy
- From Field to Shelf: How Our Oats Become Oat Milk for Supermarkets (Video)
- War Against Weeds: S8 E5 - Wild Oat (Podcast)
- Pumpkin Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Building yield in oats with the "Yield per se" project (Podcast)
- Change in leaf C:N:P stoichiometry and its correlations with soil available nutrients and dry matter yield in common vetch/oat intercropping under N fertilization (Peer-reviewed)
Job opportunity:
Events:
- Sask Organics Organic Grain Markets Webinar, 17th October
- Leadership Program for Plant Breeders & Scientists, UC Davis, CA, USA, 19-21 November
30 September 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- USDA-NASS: September Small Grains Annual Summary & Grain Stocks ASB Briefing (Video)
- Quinns announces harvest grain prices for 2024
- Latest updates on the Australian cereal pathogen map
- Jerry the slime mold eatnig his oats (Video)
- Don't think you like oats? These RECIPES will CHANGE your Mind! | Vegan & Vegetarian Meal Ideas (Video)
- Wheat Pete's Word, Sept 25: Oat answers, fall seeding, road safety, and broadcasting on stubble (Video)
- Microwave Blackberry Crumble (vegan mug cake)
- ADM Agriculture Oat Marketing Pool (Video)
- milkdamia shrinks packaging for its oat milk using 2-D printing technology
- Saskatchewan Crop Report: Harvest nears 80 per cent despite rain
- Keep your eyes peeled for Oatis, who’s OAT & about across the North West!
- Nature’s Path launches regenerative organic oatmeal
- What’s new in cereal varieties?
- Metabolic engineering‐induced transcriptome reprogramming of lipid biosynthesis enhances oil composition in oat (Peer-reviewed)
- MB crop report, 24 September
PhD opportunity:
Opportunity for growers:
Event:
23 September 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- The health benefits of wheat versus oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Montana Gluten Free assets become part of Bay State Milling
- Bay State Milling Expands to Montana with Acquisition of High-Quality, Gluten Free Oats
- Wardy's Waffle: Farm update 296- Harvest black oats, cultivation challenges continue, subsoiler gets to work (Video)
- "Oatcake Moon"
- An oatcake-inspired poem
- Milling oats by the sea
- World oats output 2024/25
- Organic feed for the cows and calves for the year ahead (Video)
- Harvest 24: End in sight as farmers make progress in dry spell
- Saskatchewan crop report: Combining at about three-quarters mark
- Winter Cereals Recommended Lists 2025 (Ireland)
- Our contract farmer competes for the title of the best organic farmer in Europe (Article in Finnish)
- Premium texturizing solution for clean-label products
- Tillage Podcast: Ploughing, porridge and malt expansion (Podcast)
- Equivalence of Ukrainian Seeds
- GIWA Crop Report – September 2024
- Do you know oatmeal? (Historical document)
- Flahavan’s recruiting organic oat growers
- Test Before Feeding: Oats, Barley, Wheat, and Rye Grown in 2024 May Contain Mycotoxins
- No-Bake Raspberry & Chocolate Oat Cheesecake
- The Cereal Resilience Lab at the "XXI Congreso de la SEF" in Cordoba, Spain
16 September 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Australian Grains Genebank delivers major earnings
- Foreign trade balances fluctuations in the domestic demand and supply of grain (Article in Finnish)
- Seasonal Variability of Lipophilic Compounds in Oat (Avena sativa L.) Straw: A Comprehensive Chemical Study (Peer-reviewed)
- FPGenetics 2025 Seed Guide
- White's Grower of the Year is...Wesley George of Armagh!
- Plant Treaty delegates (including Axel Diederichsen) exchange concerns and views on draft resolutions
- Machine Learning Applied to the Detection of Mycotoxin in Food: A Systematic Review (Peer-reviewed)
- Harvest update #13 - Struggling on through damp crops (Video)
- We Grow some of the world's healthiest oats (Video)
- A global view of oat immunogenicity for celiac disease, from genes to cellular response (Peer-reviewed)
- The Harvest Of Oat in the Paraná State, Brazil (Video)
- Vegan Nut Roast
- RealAg Radio: Advantages of composting manure, setting the combine, and light oats, Sept 12, 2024 (Video)
- Flahavan’s launches 2024 Oat Grower of the Year Awards
- Top oat growers wanted
- Grains and gut health
- Valentine winter oat (Video)
- Manitoba crop report, September 10th
- Saskatchewan crop report, September 9th
- Floater seeded Anson oats!
- General Mills plots a return to growth with new products, enhanced advertising & merchandising
- Vegan Raspberry Almond Bars - No-Bake Recipe
- Laois business shortlisted for prestigious National Organic Awards
- Traditional Orkney Chairs
- Worried About Pesticide Residues in Oats and Breakfast Cereals?
- General Mills has ‘regained momentum,’ CEO says
Funding opportunity:
15 September 2024
09 September 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Enya makes its way onto winter oats list
- Saskatchewan farmers making good harvest progress: report
- Healthy Breakfasts for Kids Before School: Quick & Kid-Approved
- The Effects of Soluble Dietary Fibers on Glycemic Response: An Overview and Futures Perspectives (Peer-reviewed)
- Grupo Bimbo, W.K. Kellogg and PepsiCo: How bakery and snack giants are driving innovation through awards and accelerators
- Alberta Crop Report - September 3, 2024
- Regenerative Organic Oats Field Day: Balcarres, SK
- How Your Morning Oats Could Help You Manage Your Weight
- Distribution of cereal phytochemicals and micronutrients in whole grains: A review of nutraceutical, industrial, and agricultural implications (Peer-reviewed)
- New product development: From potato chip and wine pairings to oat bars that combat stress and enhance sleep
- Estimating Compositions and Nutritional Values of Seed Mixes Based on Vision Transformers (Peer-reviewed)
- Winter Barley and Winter Oats Recommended Lists 2025 (Ireland)
- 5 Ways to Use Up Your Oats That'll Improve Your Breakfast and Baking Routines Immediately
- Wild vs. tame oats
- How Oatly is winning in Asia’s growing dairy market
- Harvest 2024 produces increased cereal yields
- The struggle is real - harvest 2024 (Video)
- Classification: Milling oat evaluation announcement re: 'Minnie'
- DPIRD Broadacre oat agronomy & physiology site at Yerecoin
- $4M GRDC research consortium to tackle septoria in oats
Events:
- Hart Field Day, Hart, SA, Australia, 17th September
- When Seeds Speak, Cardiff, Wales, 21st September
- Cereal Agronomy field day, Wagga Wagga, Australia, 3rd October
Funding opportunity:
02 September 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Charting the spread of wild oat patches
- Do mold toxins bother you? (Article in Finnish)
- Alberta Crop Report: August 27th
- Cereals & Grains completely revamps annual meeting
- All about CDC Anson oats (Video)
- Diversity key to strong cover crops
- How To Make Overnight Oats For Kids
- Shading oaten hay plants at various growth stages....
- Statistics Canada Crop Production Report – Prairie Provinces
- Tillage strategies to manage herbicide resistant wild oats
- Manitoba crop report: August 27th
- AAC Douglas oats from SeCan have been performing great this year! (Video)
- Harvest update from Heady's Farm (Video)
- Straw is scarce this year (Video)
- I have the touch – evidence for considerable N transfer from peas to oats by rhizodeposition (Peer-reviewed)
- Fill your sheds with hay, they say
- Virtual crop inspections (Videos)
- Organic oat trial results ('X' thread)
- Registration of CDL-111 and CDL-167 oat germplasm lines with pyramided adult plant crown rust resistance (Peer-reviewed)
- InterGrain 2024 Spring Variety Updates
- More about CDC Anson oats
- This Brilliant Granola Trick Combines Breakfast and Coffee Into a Satisfying Meal
MSc opportunity:
26 August 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- La Crosse Milling names new president and CEO
- NAMA urges inclusion of oats in global food aid
- NAMA advocates bigger role for oats in global food aid
- Farm update 287 Baling, planting first cover crops and bale stack falls over (Video)
- Overnight Oats 3 Ways
- Whole grains for young children
- White’s Oats ... with the added benefit of a protein boost (Video)
- Saskatchewan Crop Report: Harvest continues amidst scattered storms
- Swathing Manitoba oats (Video)
- Novel health food products from oats – fermented, spoonable snacks (SAR1224) (New project)
- Agriculture in the Classroom: Nutrition Support Bursary 2024, final report
- How do plant milks compare to cow’s milk?
- The health benefits of wheat versus oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Critical Evaluation of the Cgrain Value™ as a Tool for Rapid Morphometric Phenotyping of Husked Oat (Avena sativa L.) Grains (Peer-reviewed)
- Distribution of cereal phytochemicals and micronutrients in whole grains: A review of nutraceutical, industrial, and agricultural implications (Peer-reviewed)
- Buffalo Creek Mills: Bring on the Oats (Video)
- Is There a Shortage of Plant Breeders to Create New Seed Varieties? A New Study Says Yes
- Post rolls outs salted caramel Honey Bunches of Oats
- Plant and Dairy-Based Yogurts: A Comparison of Consumer Sensory Acceptability Linked to Textural Analysis (Peer-reviewed)
- Crisp Homemade Granola Recipe
- Austin Bruch: "The results are in from my winter oat planting date experiments!"
Events:
Opportunities:
19 August 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Canada’s PBR Advisory Committee has 4 Recommendations That will Shape the Future of IP
- AHDB: Winter oats recommended list
- Variety evaluation key to sustainable production
- Trends and Directions in Oats Research under Drought and Salt Stresses: A Bibliometric Analysis (1993–2023) (Peer-reviewed)
- GIWA Crop Report – August 2024
- 'Koala' milling oat
- Harvesting 'Cromwell' winter oats (Video)
- Finding a window to harvest oats after rainfall (Video)
- POGA elects co-presidents
- Global oats production, 2024-2025
- Sweep net makes harvesting wild oats for resistance testing a lot easier on hands
- Record breaking oat yield in Lincolnshire
- N response difference by SWAT zone in oats
- Flahavan's earns Origin Green Gold Membership for the 4th year running
- Senova's winter naked oats
- Lodging and moisture
- PepsiCo supports 3 novel farming projects
- Savoury carrot & butternut squash flapjacks
- Tillage: Winter barley and winter oats harvest update
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- BLUE ZONES KITCHEN BRINGS LONGEVITY TO BREAKFAST CATEGORY WITH READY-TO-HEAT, STEEL CUT OATMEAL
Events:
- Organic Connections Conference & Trade Show, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 6th-7th November
- PAG 32, San Diego, CA, USA, 10th-15th January, 2025
Opportunity:
12 August 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Milling Oat Evaluation Announcement: Koala
- The journey of a seed in a genebank (Video)
- Colourng pages for kids
- Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) harvest results PLUS VARIETY SELECTION TOOL SURVEY
- Recipe for Oat Flour Naan
- Genomic identification of expressed globulin storage proteins in oat (Peer-reviewed)
- PepsiCo launches pilot to cultivate next generation of farmers
- What’s an oatcake? We hear you ask…
- Senova winter oat yields (Video)
- Harvesting winter oats at NIAB (Video)
- Cereal leaf diseases make a comeback this year
- Cover Crop Fact Sheets Explain Options Available to Iowa Farmers
- Kind Kids soft-baked bars debut
- Excessive rain takes toll on EU crops
- OCCC Oat trials
- Raisio plc’s Half-Year Financial Report 2024
- Traceable to the farm, Kaura (Oat) 2.0 opens a window into modern primary production (Article in Finnish)
- CROPDIVA Practice abstract #3.5 - The importance of including an autumn catch crop in the rotation
Events:
05 August 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Oat sheaves in New York
- Watermelon smoothie recipe
- Spoon free, high protein oats brand raises $35 million
- Shake Shack founder leads $35 million funding for Oats Overnight (Paywall)
- White's Oats: "Here's our Steve in his happy place" (Video)
- Two awards for Stockan's Oatcakes
- Cover crops: the dos and the don’ts
- Shortage of Skilled Plant Breeders Could Lead to Dire Implications for Global Food Security
- Promising new oat line from InterGrain
- Recent heat causes Alberta crop decline
- Sampling wild oats for testing
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat regrowth (Video)
- Cultivating success: Bridging the gaps in plant breeding training in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- Jefferies Seeds Annual Crop Tour, 9th August, Glenboro, MB, Canada
- Cereals & Grains Association's Chemistry, Quality, and Technology Conference, 16th-17th October, Schaumberg, IL, USA
- Computing Skills in Plant Breeding Workshop, 9th-13th December, North Carolina State University
Job Opportunities:
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Survey:
29 July 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Oat breeding update at AFIA's National Fodder Conference
- Producers look for results from new crop varieties
- WILD OAT SEED PRODUCTION and THE SOIL SEEDBANK
- ‘Celebrate competition’: Oatly optimistic about plant-based milk category growth, strides forward in global expansion
- Oatly trending toward profitability
- The mitochondrial genome of the diploid oat Avena longiglumis (Peer-reviewed)
- Oat Nachos
- Planting spring oats and turnips in the fall for forage
- Quick and Easy! 5-minute Oat Chocolate Cake
- The sad story behind the 23/24 Canadian oat marke
- Making whole grain products more appealing to children
- Staple Foods With Reasons for Concern
- Searching for the Fusarium spp. Which Are Responsible for Trichothecene Contamination in Oats. Using Metataxonomy to Compare the Distribution of Toxigenic Species in Fields from Spain and the UK (Peer-reviewed)
- MB Crop report, 23rd July
- Digital Sequence Information (DSI) data governance practices to support benefit-sharing and science (Policy brief)
- PepsiCo Foods North America Launches New "Planting Pathways Initiative" To Expand Opportunities in the Agriculture Sector
- A global view of oat immunogenicity for celiac disease, from genes to cellular response (Peer-reviewed)
- Weight-loss power of oats naturally mimics popular obesity drugs
- Using oats to help nurse soybeans along like in alfalfa
- 2023 POGA Milling Oats Trial
- The Power of Oats: Team GB Picks Porridge for the Paris Olympics
- White’s Oats Boosts Team With Key Appointments
- brekki Expands Ready-to-Eat Oats Portfolio With Two New Flavors Lemon and Choco Coconut
- Current PAFTOL approaches don't capture structural variations and chromosomal variation that are so critical to speciation and biodiversity
- FARM UPDATE 275, Black oat companion crop is harming Capulet beans, finish winter bird food areas (Video)
- PestFacts WA: Bacterial blight and Septoria avenae blotch in oats
- Factors affecting nutrient losses in hay production (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- Australian Grains Industry Conference, 31 July - 1st August, Melbourne, Australia
- Pitura Seeds crop tour, 1st August, MacDonald, MB, Canada
- GRO "Cut the Crop" field day, 7th August, Wesdtlock, AB, Canada
Job Opportunity:
- PLant Pathologist, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA (Must be a US citizen)
22 July 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Researcher smokes out weeds
- Gluten-Free Oats: What’s the Deal?
- Global end-season oat stocks in 2024/25
- Consider resistance testing to help wild oat control
- Flahavan's investments in biomass, solar, wind, and hydro energy sources
- Shortage of skilled plant breeders could impact global food security
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats close up (Video)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat harvest complete (Video)
- Addition of micronized oat husk fiber to gluten-free bread - Effects on chemical, physical and physiolgical properties (Peer-reviewed)
- The best doggone homemade dog treats
- Photos from the Teagasc Crops' 60th Anniversary Open Day
- Forage oats for biogas
- AgMission & PepsiCo Grants Bolster Climate-Resilient Farms & Value Chains
- PepsiCo sees Q2 sales edge up despite declines at Frito-Lay, Quaker
- Winter crop conditions see improvement across UK – AHDB
- €1.256m has been awarded to UC Dublin's 'Healthy Oats: Closing the Circle' project
- Photos from Univ. Wisconsin field day
- Tackling wild oats: How to identify and map problem areas
- Positive effects of intercrop yields in farms from across Europe depend on rainfall, crop composition, and management (Peer-reviewed)
- The future of variety selection in the UK
- July 2024: GSP tool is redeployed in GrainGenes
- AAFC and the Maritime Departments are investing up to 5.8 million to improve and grow the grains and oilseeds sector through producer-led research
- NITROGEN-RELATED RESEARCH TO ASSIST POGA PRODUCER-MEMBERS
- CULTURAL CONTROL OF WILD OAT
- How to get plant-based meat analogues from CROPDIVA crops?
- Short chat with Rebecca White of GB Seeds about the benefits of growing oats as a break crop (Video)
- Nitrogen on oats vs. barley in Australia (see thread)
- Nitrogen on oats vs. barley in Australia (part2)
- Austin Bruch: Winter oats nearly finished and spring oats coming nicely (Video)
- IBERS - Aberystwyth University oat trials (Video)
- A cyclic lipopeptide from Fusarium graminearum targets plant membranes to promote virulence (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- Stamp Seeds Variety Tour, Enchant, AB, Canada, 25 July
- Regenerative Organic Oats Field Day, Rolling HIlls, AB, Canada, 29 July
- Sask Organics field day, Swift Current, SK, Canada, 31 July
- Saskatchewan Open Farm Days (various locations in SK), Canada, 10-11 August
Job Opportunity:
Contract growing opportunity:
08 July 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Adding fruits and vegetables to formulations
- Herbicide resistance flirts with crisis mode
- Characteristics of wild oats (Article in Finnish)
- GRDC launches new wave of oat investments
- Lowest cereals and OSR areas planted in over 20 years
- MCDC Collaborates with MCVET for Crops Variety Evaluations
- OatSoy Diaries (Video)
- Oatsoys at golden hour (Video)
- The effect of Lactococcus lactis CICC 23610 fermentation on the physicochemical properties and flavor formation of oat beverage (Peer-reviewed)
- Antioxidant and in vitro cosmeceutical activities of germinated oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Exciting presentations on genomics, genetics and pre breeding by Chengdao Li and Rajeev Varshney
- AHDB Planting and Variety Survey Results
- The oat food value chain in Belgium
- Using drones for plant health imaging (Video)
- Sask. crop trials focus on intercrops, humic acid
- SunOpta adds oat milk production capacity
- Canadian Farmers Shift Seeding Focus in 2024
- Growers urged to consider resistance testing ahead of wild oat control
- Presenting results from the EMERGIA project
- AEGIC Corporate Video, 2024 (Video)
- MB crop report, 2nd July
- COCONUT, RASPBERRY AND LEMON BALLS
Events:
- Indian Head Crop Management Field Day, Indian Head, SK, Canada, 16th July
- Going With the Grain: Diversified, Small-Scale Grain Farming With On-Farm Processing, Pecatonica, IL, USA, 19th July
- Walk in the Wheat (etc.), Edinburgh, UK, 20th July
- ECRF/Suncrest College Crop Plot Tour, Yorkton, SK, Canada, 23rd July
- IBERS Oat Day, Aberystwyth, UK, 30th July
- Organic & Low-Input Field Day, Swift Current, SK, Canada, 31st July
Job Opportunities:
02 July 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- DISEASES IN SMALL GRAINS: 2024
- PepsiCo aiming to reduce more sodium from products
- PepsiCo introduces new global 2030 nutrition goals
- CEEREAL Manifesto 2024-2029: Commitments and policy asks for better breakfast and more sustainable food systems
- CEEREAL Manifesto: From Seed to Spoon
- AFIA Hay Report – 28 June 2024
- PestFacts WA: Slaters and Portuguese millipedes are damaging crop seedlings
- Wheat Pete's Word, June 26: Snorkelling oats, rapid growth syndrome, and a plan for fusarium (Video)
- Oatmeal strawberry popsicles
- Forage oats with small seed fababeans
- World oats production is forecast to rebound in 2024/25
- Austin Bruch: Oats and frogs
- Austin Bruch: Winter crop update
- Alberta Crop Report: Crop conditions as of June 25, 2024 (Abbreviated Report)
- A DARK PRESENCE: ERGOT CONCERNS PERSIST IN FOOD AND FEED GRAINS
- Wild Oat (Avena fatua): Crop Mimicry and Herbicide Resistance (Peer-reviewed)
- SunOpta invests $26 million in expansion
- SunOpta scaling oat milk production with facility expansion
- General Mills plans to be more aggressive competitor
- General Mills Slumps as Shoppers Buy Less Packaged Food
- General Mills looks to spark sales growth
- Don't Count Your Oats Before They Are In The Bin (Video)
- GrainGenes Tutorial - Search Browsers for Gene/Transcript (Video)
- Finnair changed its oatmeal to Irish - an MP was not amused! (Article in Finnish)
- Tackling wild oats: How to identify and map problem areas
- Sowing deep & early to chase moisture was the main topic of discussion at the CFIG Oat Agronomy & Deep Seeding field walk
- Agricultural land use [in Finland] 2024 (preliminary) (Article in Finnish)
- MB Crop report, June 25th
- Plant breeder shortage threatens ag industry
- Positive effects of intercrop yields in farms from across Europe depend on rainfall, crop composition, and management (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- SaskOrganics: Carrot River Organic Field Day, Carrot River, SK, Canada, 17th July
- AFIA National Fodder Conference, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, 23-25 July
- Regenerative Organic Oats Field Day - Rolling Hills, AB, Canada, 29th July
- OATSPO Agronomic Showcase, Narrogin, WA, Australia, 10th September
- FoodTech Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia, 16-18 October
Opportunities:
24 June 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- SoyaOat
- Leftover Porridge Pancakes
- Bay State Milling marks 125 years in business
- Catherine Howarth discusses NUE at Cereals (Video)
- Building Climate-Resilient Seed Systems in Canada
- AFIA: Hay Report – 21 June 2024
- GRDC launches industry-driven research consortium to capitalise on growing global oat market
- Berry Trifle Recipe
- EU imposes duties on imports of Ukrainian oats due to quota exceeding
- MOST WISCONSIN CROPS EMERGED, DOING WELL
- THE DELICIOUS DIFFERENCE: TOASTED OATS VS. GRANOLA
- Buffalo Creek Mills: "Our food is good food"
- GIWA Crop Report – June 2024
- Austin Bruch: Winter oat planting experiments (Video)
- Get to know Ron - Buffalo Creek Mills' Oat Purchaser! (Video)
- Resistance to powdery mildew in Irish oat heritage lines (Peer-reviewed)
- Insect watch is on for pea leaf weevil and cereal leaf beetle
- DTC children’s food brand Little Spoon expands with breakfast SKUs, Oatly collaboration
- MB Crop report, June 4th
- Fusarium Head Blight Risk Mapping Tool (Western Canada)
- Change from APPF to APPN reflects our new national network
- Oatly to scrap its UK vegan drink factory plans
- Tuesday Tidbits from the InterGrain lab (Video)
Events:
- WESTERN SOCIETY OF CROP SCIENCE: California State University, Monterey Bay, CA, USA, 17-18 July
- AFIA: The National Fodder Conference in Coffs Harbour, Australia, 23-25 July
- VI Spanish Symposium on Physiology and Breeding of Cereals, Salamanca, Spain, 16-17 October
Job Opportunities:
Call for Letters of Intent:
(Please note that there would have been a Weekly Web Harvest posted the week of June 17th if I hadn't fallen ill with COVID-19. It's still out there, people!)
(Please note that there will be no Weekly Web Harvest posted the week of June 10th)
03 June 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- BYDV in oats
- Western Grains Research Foundation launches Prairie Weeds website
- Helping Prairie farmers manage weeds strategically and successfully through knowledge and innovation
- Oat hill plot trial in Lapland
- AEGIC Corporate Video 2024
- The first Oat 2.0 crop is in the stores and the second has been sown (Article in Finnish)
- Taming the wild ones: Wild oat management in tame oats
- FARM UPDATE 260 Drilling Capulet baked beans & black oats & a look at sugar beet issues (Video)
- General Mills doubles down on branding to offset delay in volume recovery across CPG
- General Mills’ sales growth target may be out of reach
- Analysis of the effect of oat β-glucan on gut microbiota and clarification of their interaction relationship (Peer-reviewed)
- Variations in tocopherol, tocotrienol, avenanthramide and saponin content in oats and the influence of milling and baking processes (Peer-reviewed)
- Impact of defatting method on oat protein isolate structure-function characteristics (Peer-reviewed)
- Quaker Oats UK Grower Group Meeting in Fife
- POGA page on "Cooking with Oats"
- Healthy Oatmeal Bars (an easy one bowl recipe!)
- Salad with Steel cut oats “Taboulé”
- GUT HEALING FOODS: OATS, THE SIMPLE SOLUTION
- KAR1-induced dormancy release in Avena fatua caryopses involves reduction of caryopsis sensitivity to ABA and ABA/GAs ratio in coleorhiza and radicle (Peer-reviewed)
- Assessing myBaits Target Capture Sequencing Methodology Using Short-Read Sequencing for Variant Detection in Oat Genomics and Breeding (Peer-reviewed)
- Shortbread cookie recipe
- ABS for DSI: What’s in it for agriculture and food security? (Video)
- What is biopiracy? And how a new UN treaty tries to get rid of it (Video)
Events:
27 May 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- ELATUS™ ERASUPERIOR DISEASE CONTROL AND HIGHER YIELDS IN WINTER AND SPRING OATS (Technical update)
- Farmer stories: Organic Arable
- PepsiCo’s free tool to address climate impact on crops
- Canadian Cover Crop Selection Tool
- World 2024/25 oats production
- Tips for Saving Money with Weed Control in Small Grains
- Saskatchewan Guide to Crop Protection
- White’s Oats Launch New Activoat High In Protein
- Raisio Oyj's research foundation's 2024 master's and thesis scholarships (Article in Finnish)
- COOKING WITH WHOLEGRAIN CEREALS
- Loving the Alien: The Contribution of the Wild in Securing the Breeding of Cultivated Hexaploid Wheat and Oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Lessons from nature for more sustainable food production (Article in Finnish)
- GoCrops.ca - A FRESH WAY TO FIND TRIALS FOR ONTARIO CROPS
- Genome Variability in Artificial Allopolyploid Hybrids of Avena sativa L. and Avena macrostachya Balansa ex Coss. et Durieu Based on Marker Sequences of Satellite DNA and the ITS1–5.8S rDNA Region (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
Opportunities:
21 May 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Implementing multi-trait genomic selection to improve grain milling quality in oats (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- Machvision demo (Video)
- Crop progress update for Minnesota
- Herbicide resistance update for grass weeds
- Inter-seeding cover crops
- Wake Up To Organic Oats (Video part way down the page...)
- PlantLink News May 2024
- SAGIT ALLOCATES $2.6M FOR SA GRAINS RESEARCH FOLLOWING RECORD NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
- Buffalo Creek Mills' 9th birthday! (Video)
- Grain overload, acidosis, or grain poisoning in stock
- 'A really cool map' – providing tools for farmers, plant breeders and policymakers
- Ducks Unlimited and PepsiCo offer financial incentive
- Growing the scope of oats
- Double Chocolate Banana Oatmeal Muffins
- Asparagus Soup
- Canada promoting diverse crop rotations
- Over $5.7 million announced for crop science research cluster
- Government of Canada announces investment in research to promote more diverse crop rotations on farms
- Grain Farmers of Ontario Appreciates the Federal Government’s Commitment to Agriculture Research
- Development of spray-dried oat milk powder with improved stability (Peer-reviewed)
- Spring cereal crops – much fieldwork in a short timeframe
- Repository of South African Plant Rust Images
Events:
- National Association of Plant Breeders' 2024 Annual Meeting, 21-25 July, St. Louis, Missouri, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (USA)
- Anne Osbourn - Novozymes Prize Symposium: "A million shades of green: Understanding and harnessing plant metabolic diversity", 9-10 September, Norwich, UK
Job Opportunities:
- University of Minnesota, USA: Plant Pathology Department Head with Faculty Rank
- AFBI, Northern Ireland: Head of Agronomy and Plant Science
- CSIRO, Australia: Research Scientist in Molecular/Synthetic Biology
13 May 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Family Grain Activities
- Harnessing monocrop breeding strategies for intercrops (Peer-reviewed)
- Season 3: Tillage farm growing gluten free oats, miscanthus and installing solar panels (Podcast)
- GIWA trims area estimate as WA planting passes halfway
- Stats Can: Stocks of principal field crops, March 31, 2024
- Alberta Crop Report: Crop conditions as of May 7, 2024
- MB Diversification Centres Newsletter, May 2024
- NASS 2023 AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL USE SURVEY - Oats
- Semican seed guides, including cover crops and intercrops
- Phenotypic characterization and candidate gene analysis of a short kernel and brassinosteroid insensitive mutant from hexaploid oat (Avena sativa) (Peer-reviewed)
- Who Was The First Ever Cereal Mascot?
- USDA grants nurture organic grain markets
- I Tried The £3 Tool Pros Use For Their Porridge, And I'm Never Going Back
- Openview 9th May 2024 - markets (Podcast)
- National Hay Agronomy project aims to elevate Australia's oaten hay exports
- Asutin Bruch: Weeding oat trials
- Working Together to Make a Difference: The Oatmeal Project
- Ken Gill's plans for grazing and fodder management
- PepsiCo’s financial results beat analysts’ expectations
- Differential expression and global analysis of miR156/SQUAMOSA promoter binding-like proteins (SPL) module in oat (Peer-reviewed)
- Raisio plc’s Interim Report January-March 2024
- CPG brands see shelf-stable products as the ticket to better margins and bigger sales
Events:
- Australian oats: health benefits and innovative food options (Malaysia), 28 May, on-line
- IGC Grains Conference announcements
- The National Fodder Conference, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, 23-25 July
06 May 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Domestication and the evolution of crops: variable syndromes, complex genetic architectures, and ecological entanglements (Peer-reviewed)
- Prices for Ontario, Prairie organic grains relatively steady
- May 2024: GrainGenes BLAST has now a pre-populated link to NCBI BLAST (which provides views such as Distance Tree)
- THE PAMPERING POWER OF OATS
- Underrated flake: why oats are so healthy - and how much you should eat (Article in German)
- Out the Gap: Sowing Your Oats (Podcast)
- POPcore oat trial up & away
- Grains Australia: Topics discussed by Councils
- Early and deep sowing of oats
- 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)
- FAW attacking early sown winter cereals: QDAF
- Introducing intercropVALUES to Scottish stakeholders
- The benefits of oats
- Manitoba Crop Report, April 30, 2024
- The Simple Trick for Ultra-Creamy Oatmeal
- 20 days after topdressing, Avena strigosa as a cover/service crop is already starting to cover the soil
- Consumer Perception and Sensory Drivers of Liking of Fortified Oat Milks (Peer-reviewed)
- DPIRD "FlowerPower" app
- 11th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System - summary
- MN crop report - 28 April, 2024
Events:
- Australian oats: health benefits and innovative food options (Indonesia), 29 May, on-line
- Australian oats: health benefits and innovative food options (China), 30 May, on-line
- EVENT PREVIEW: The NAPB’s 2024 Meeting Sparks New Partnerships with St. Louis Startups
Call for papers:
29 April 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- How are Plant-Based Alternatives to Dairy Products Perceived and Who Consumes Them?
- Gluten free oats
- Salinity stress effect on staple food crops and novel mitigation strategies (Peer-reviewed)
- Mitigating salt stress by conditioning seeds with ultraviolet light (UV-C) in white oats (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- Stockan’s Oatcakes: how the Orkney heritage brand won gold
- By-products from Mornflake Mighty Oats repurposed
- Research dilemma: crops or climate?
- The 'magic' ingredient: my search for the perfect Anzac biscuit recipe
- Luke's Best in Field Podcast: Episode #4 - Harry and Alli (Podcast)
- GIWA supports Western Australian Government delegation to China
- Offerings of chocolate are best....
- The breeder's eye - importance of visual selection in breeding (Video)
- ADM Agriculture Ltd. Marketing Report - 25 Apr 2024
- Cereal production down 21% in 2023 – CSO
- It's a viral-sensation oat smoothie that costs pennies to make and promises to help you lose 40lb in two months. Now our experts put so-called OAT-zempic to the test...
- Génome Québec virtual lab tour
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid oat species Avena longiglumis (Peer-reviewed paper and resources)
- Weed control a key focus as new season gets underway
- Spring planting conditions see dramatic improvement
- THE IMPORTANCE OF FIELD RECORDS
22 April 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Summary: 11th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System
- EASY OAT-BASED BREAKFAST IDEAS FOR WORK
- Aggregate North American oats production in 2024/25 is forecast to climb
- Simple trick could improve accuracy of plant genetics research
- GIWA releases initial forecast for WA crop area of 8.6Mha
- Winter crop update from Austin Bruch
- Allan Rattey: deep-sown oats
- GIWA Crop Report – April 2024
- M&M Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
- Atlantic Grains Council Newsletter, Spring 2024
- ND Carson oat
- "At White’s we work in partnership with over 100 growers...."
- GrainGenes: a Centralized Nexus for Small Grains Data and Communities
Events:
- Australian oats: health benefits and innovative food options (Philippines), 14 May, on-line
- Australian oats: health benefits and innovative food options (India), 16 May, on-line
Research funding:
16 April 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- OMAFRA: Barley yellow dwarf virus in oats
- Demand for minor acreage crops has stalled
- Tillage farmers can still grow good crops
- ‘Oatzempic’ is gaining steam online. What is this weight loss trend?
- Are cereal grasses a single genetic system? (Peer-reviewed)
- Nested Association Mapping in Oat (Avena Sativa L.) Identifies the Location of Multiple Genes Conferring Resistance to the Crown Rust Pathogen Puccinia Coronata f. sp. Avenae (Preprint)
- Rolling in the spring oats on the Claydon farm (Video)
- Winter-crop plant off to patchy start across Australia
- Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Bark Recipe
- Registration of ‘FL12034-10’ oat: A new dual-purpose disease resistant cultivar for Florida and southern United States (Peer-reviewed)
- GIWA Board and Council Updates
Events:
- International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights, 5-9 June, Zurich, Switzerland
- CHG World Porridge Eating Contest, 13 July, Corby, UK
- Multi-Omic Integration for AI Genomic Prediction Breeding Short Course, 15-19 July, Gainesville, FL, USA
- UK Plant Phenomics 2024 Town Hall and Conference, 4-5 September, Coventry, UK
Consultation:
Scholarship:
09 April 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Stock Cropper 2024 Launch (Video)
- Global weather and issues affect the UK market consistently
- Time to reset and plan again
- Fancy Staffordshire oatcakes
- Growers call for fall armyworm chemical fix for cereal crops (Paywall)
- USDA-ARS Cover Crop Chart
- Two types of biplots to integrate multi-trial and multi-trait information for genotype selection (Peer-reviewed)
- Automated mechanical weeding and intercropping
- "Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow"... (Video)
- Research: Carbon footprint of Irish oat crops extremely low
- Can Oats Help You Lose Weight? Experts Weigh in On ‘Oatzempic’ Trend
- ‘Planting window’ for spring beans, wheat and oats fast diminishing
- A high-resolution haplotype pangenome uncovers somatic hybridization, recombination and intercontinental migration in oat crown rust (Preprint)
- Prairie producers concerned about herbicide resistant weeds
- Crown rust fungus could help manage invasive plants in Minnesota (Podcast with transcript)
Events:
- To Eat or Not to Eat: Oats and the Gluten-Free Diet, 24th April, on Zoom
- University of Illinois Small Grains Field Day, 24th May, Urbana, IL, USA
02 April 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Perspective of US farmers on collaborative on-farm agronomic research (Peer-reviewed)
- The Environmental Working Group Is Scaring Us Again – Or Is It?
- GRDC NVT Harvest Reports
- Is this the ideal grain crop?
- Wild oat seed production and the soil seedbank
- Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Concentrations of Trichothecenes, Their Glucosides, and Emerging Fusarium Toxins in Naturally Contaminated, Irradiated, and Fusarium langsethiae Inoculated Oats (Peer-reviewed)
- Blog: Don't forget the wild oats (Article in Finnish)
- Genome-Wide Association Study Uncovers Genomic Regions Associated with Coleoptile Length in a Worldwide Collection of Oat (Peer-reviewed)
- SUPER FOOD Porridge wards off cancer, heart disease and diabetes – banning it would be madness, experts say
- New newsletter from Buffalo Creek Mills
- Report: Land under cereals fell by 16,300ha over 12 month period
- Nutritive value and forage accumulation of a black oat germplasm in the northeastern United States (Peer-reviewed)
- The Value of Red Clover Paired with Small Grain Production - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- Variations of seed size and seed number per spikelet and their effects on seed germination in hulled oats (Peer-reviewed)
- NSW DPI Agronomy: Winter crop variety sowing guide 2024
- Nutritional Traits, Pasting Properties and Antioxidant Profile of Selected Genotypes of Sorghum, Oat and Maize Eligible for Gluten-Free Products (Peer-reviewed)
- Farmall 1206 Turbo Tractor Seeding Oats (Video)
- Farmers evaluating weed management options
- Carbohydrate quality, not quantity, linked to reduced colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in US populations: evidence from a prospective study (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- PFI Shared Learning Call: Spend Money to Make Money? Effective Fungicide and Herbicide Management for Small Grain Production, April 12th
- 2024 ASA, CSSA, SSSA INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING, San Antonio, TX, USA, 10-13 November
25 March 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Kerry Dairy launches oat and dairy blended product range
- PFI 2024 Annual Conference proceedings
- Ontario crop performance data finds new home at GoCrops.ca
- Oats and oatmeal aren’t bad for you, as some claim – in fact, they probably have more health benefits than you realise
- ADAMA Canada rolls out new cereal herbicide lineup
- Arla Foods introduces Arla JÖRĐ oat drinks to the Dutch market (Article in Dutch)
- Smooth dry skin with homemade oatmeal cosmetics (Article in Japanese)
- COCERAL Crop Forecast - Grains, March 2024
- Avena strigosa into corn as a cover crop
- Global oats market players shifting
- 2024 GIWA Standards Review
- Detection of oat crown rust disease in Taiwan (2019-2021) (On bioRXiv)
- 2023 Pasture Variety Trials Results
- The opportunities and risks of the Finnish oats
- Oat juice factory approved in Co Donegal
- Saskatchewan trade statistics
- 2024 MARITIME CEREAL CULTIVARS PERFORMANCE LIST (2020-2023)
- People on the Move in the grain industry
- Saskatchewan guide to crop protection 2024
18 March 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- World oats production in 2024/25 is projected to increase
- StatsCan confirms intentions of more lentils, oats, and durum, and not quite as many canola acres in '24
- What’s on your seed?
- Your hub for Ontario field crop variety information
- Cereals & Grains Association memberships are now free!
- Raisio PLC Annual Review and Corporate Responsibility Report 2023
- Oat protein modulates cholesterol metabolism and improves cardiac systolic function in high fat, high sucrose fed rats (Peer-reviewed)
- Fall cover crops assessed in Manitoba
- Saskatchewan 2023 Provincial Seed Survey
- NAMA Spring Conference Unites Milling Industry in Florida
- Plant Veda oat 'milk' on Simon Fraser University Campus
- Austin Bruch - Cooking hulless oats
Events:
11 March 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- AFIA: Hay Report – 08 March 2024
- StatsCan survey, Dec-Jan
- Cover Crop Grazing Effects on Soil Compaction Indicators in Western and Central Kansas
- Nutritious Ontario grains
- Grain yield and interspecific competition in an oat-common vetch intercropping system at varying sowing density (Peer-reviewed)
- Midwest Cover Crops Council: Cover crop decision tool
04 March 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Looking for Fusarium Resistance in Oats: An Update (Peer-reviewed)
- RealAg on the Weekend: Machinery market trends, oat and canola markets, and aphanomyces research, March 2, 2024 (Podcast)
- Oat market searching for supply and demand stability in 2024 (Podcast)
- RealAg Radio: Cover crops in dry climates, oat markets, and why vets aren't going north, Feb 27, 2024 (Podcast)
- Oat and pulse ingredient research nets $7.3 million from Protein Industries Canada
- Canadian plant ingredient project receives C$19 million
- Lantmännen to build $48 million grain facility
- Goldie – the new oat that’s just right
- OAT DEAR Porridge could be SNP’s next target as full 'junk food' list revealed
- Tillage Podcast: tillage drop, Guinness interview and three crops (Podcast)
- When is Early too Early (to Plant Wheat, Barley or Oats)?
- Genetic mapping of the powdery mildew resistance gene Pm13 on oat chromosome 1D (Preprint)
- Gains With Grains
- Tillage: Priorities for winter cereal crops
- Milling Oat Evaluation Announcement
- Intercropping indices evaluation on grain legume-small grain cereals mixture: a critical meta-analysis review (Peer-reviewed)
- CDC Anson Oats--Available in Fall 2024 (Video)
- Food Vision Tillage Group report due in coming days
- Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution (Peer-reviewed)
- Oatly Faces $9.25M Settlement Over Greenwashing Allegations Amidst Financial and Environmental Scrutiny
- Tirlán Quality Grain Award Winners
- Laois family wins overall Tirlán Quality Grain Award 2023
- Lovely Laois oats top Tirlán grain awards
- New research: proving Irish grain has low carbon emissions
- The GRDC NVT 2023 long term yield results for oat have been released
- Whole grains for heart health in women of all ages
- Variable cost respite for cereal crops
- HOW SOON CAN YOU PLANT SMALL GRAINS? CAN YOU PLANT TOO EARLY?
- What’s the most common crop in the US?
- Gluten free oats
Job postings:
- Call for Applications: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Genome (Volunteer position)
- Food Technologist/Chemist, USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND, USA
- Field Operation Manager at Arizona Plant Breeders in Casa Grande, AZ, USA
- Assistant Professor in plant breeding at the Agricultural University of Iceland
- PFI: Field Crops Outreach Coordinator – Northern Iowa Region
- PFI: Field Crops Outreach Coordinator- Southern Iowa Region
Funding opportunities:
- OFCAF 2024 Update
- Organic Alberta offers holistic program to Peace Region growers
- PFI 2024 Small Grains Cost-Share Program is open!
Events:
- Quantitative Genetics and Advanced Breeding Course, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1-5 April
- 2024 La Crete Organic Farming Conference & Tradeshow, La Crete, AB, Canada, 11 April
- Cereals - the Arable Event, Newnham Farm SG7 5JX, UK, 11-12 June
- Plant Pathology 2024 (PPATH2024) and Early Careers Plant Pathology 2024 (ECPP2024), Oxford, UK, 10-13 September
19 February 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Ecology of major emerging weeds
- The cover crop difference
- Microbial community response to cover cropping varied with time after termination (Peer-reviewed)
- Global oats output in 2023/24 is expected to contract steeply y/y
- Hamlyns does the eco-friendly paperwork
- Wheat Pete's Word, Feb 14: Living oats, renovating hay stands, mild winter considerations, and supporting corn yield (Video)
- Oats: a hardy crop that’s good for your heart
- SIZE MATTERS- HOW THE SIZE OF THE OAT IMPACTS HUNGER AND ENERGY
- "Two critical factors affecting your ability to produce "Oat1" grain are April sowing & variety selection"
- Helsinki Mills' oat husks being used in Yara's recycled fertilizers (Article in Finnish)
- Updated GRDC NVT protocols
- GIWA Crop Report – February 2024
- NDSU Variety trial results
- Danone launches new production facility for plant-based food
- Elovena® enters new markets: the Netherlands and Belgium
- Raisio plc Financial Statements Bulletin 2023
- Small Business of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year entrant – The Staffordshire Oatcake Company and Mark Adams
Job postings:
Events:
- Intercropping Winter Webinar, Fort Vermilion, AB, Canada OR online, March 8th
- Advancing Organics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, March 27th - 28th
12 February 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Bob’s Red Mill founder dies at 94
- 14 Oatmeal Dessert Recipes That Prove Oats Aren't Just For Breakfast
- Thousand Kernel Weight Test: What’s It All About?
- CAN YOU HEAT OVERNIGHT OATS? QUICK & EASY GUIDE
- Controlling wild oats
- How to cook grains: Oats
- Oaty Pizza with Squash, Broccoli, and Red Onion
- GRDC Update Papers
- Milling oat flour for pancakes in Laois (Video)
- Milling for mycotoxin analysis at Teagasc (Video)
- Poll results re: which oat varieties to grow in western Canada
- They're cool-season, not cold-season grasses
- PROTEIN NITROGEN AS AN INDICATOR OF DETERMINING THE DEGREE OF STRESS IN OATS DURING SOIL DROUGHT (Peer-reviewed)
- The impact of Saccharomyces cerevisiae stimulation on various physiological indicators of oats (Avena sativa) exposed to salinity (Peer-reviewed)
- Virulence patterns of oat crown rust in Australia - season 2022 (Peer-reviewed)
- Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley: Eat Whole Grains (Podcast)
- Steven Maenhout: Data-driven Plant Breeding (Video)
- Farm to Fork: Oats
- Canadian Grain Commission: Grain harvest and export quality
Job postings:
- Regenerative Organic Oats (ROO) Program Coordinator - Canadian Organic Growers (AB/SK Canada)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Genome Research and Bioinformatics (with Nadia Kamal, at TUM)
- University of British Columbia: Assistant Professor in Plant Science
- Recruiting 63 Junior Researchers at INRAE, France; covering all disciplines of Agriculture, Food, Animal, Genomics and Environmental Sciences
Survey:
Events:
- Top Crop Summit, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 27-28 February
- PFI: Midwest Covers and Grains Conference, Mankato, MN, USA, 04 March
- 2024 Cereals and Oilseeds and 2024 PEI Soil & Crop Improvement Association Annual Conference, Summerside, PEI, Canada, 6-7 March
- IGC Grains Conference 2024, London, England, 11-12 June
05 February 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- A $27 billion industry
- Raisio: Part of consumers’ daily lives for 85 years
- DPIRD Grains Convo: Research aims to boost oat resistance against Septoria blotch in Western Australia
- Celiac Canada announces world-first celiac research award and calls for 2024 applications
- Celiac Canada: Oats for people with celiac disease
- Is the Canadian oat market in for another wild ride?
- USDA-ARS has released the 2023 Cropland Data Layer on the CroplandCROS web portal
- Meet Farmers Weekly’s new Arable Insights farmers for 2024
- GRDC: 2023 NVT Disease Ratings are now available
- More climate-friendly Oats 2.0 (Article in Finnish)
- TEAGASC National Tillage Conference 2024 presentations
- Identification of haplotypes associated with resistance to Fusarium graminearum in spring oat (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- Farmer’s market old fashioned cocktail
Events:
- 2024 GRDC Grains Research Update, Perth, WA, Australia, 26-27 February, 2024
- 8th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, Lincoln, NE, USA, 07-11 October, 2024
29 January 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Identification of haplotypes associated with resistance to Fusarium graminearum in spring oat (Avena sativa L.) (Peer-reviewed)
- Protein nitrogen as an indicator of determining the degree of stress in oats during soil drought (Peer-reviewed)
- Minister McConalogue announces €14.3 million in support payments to the tillage sector
- Plant Breeding for Tomorrow: Dr Kevin Smith is improving multiple crops for Minnesota’s future (Podcast)
- PFI: Combine Settings for Direct Cutting Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- The impact of Saccharomyces cerevisiae stimulation on various physiological indicators of oats (Avena sativa) exposed to salinity (Download - Peer-reviewed)
- The tillage sting in the tail after a difficult autumn
- The importance of Fusarium head blight resistance in the cereal breeding industry: Case studies from Germany and Austria (Peer-reviewed)
- Susceptibility of UK oat (Avena sativa) varieties to infection by Fusarium species and subsequent HT-2 and T-2 toxin contamination (Peer-reviewed)
- Grain Millers Oat Variety Trials Yorkton 2019 2023 (Video)
- Oat noodles and oat ‘rice’ headed for supermarket shelves
- PFI - Small Grains News 2023: A Year in Review
- Burns Supper - Haggis making (Video)
- North Dakota Field Crop Plant Disease Management Guide
- DANKO: Breeding of agricultural crops
- The 'evolution' of lignin: from paper to antioxidants (Article in Spanish)
- Farmers encouraged to carefully manage their winter-feed requirements
- Gluten-Free Food Guide for Children & Youth
- Are Oats A Commodity Or Ingredient? (Video)
- Physical–Chemical and Sensory Quality of Oat Milk Produced Using Different Cultivars (Peer-reviewed)
- Untargeted metabolomics profiling of oat (Avena sativa L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) infested with wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton) reveals differences associated with plant defense and insect nutrition (Peer-reviewed)
- Evaluation of oat (Avena sativa L.) populations for autumn sowing production in Southwest China (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- SDSU: Small Grain Crop Hour, January 30th - February 1st, via Zoom
- PFI: Shared learning call with Melanie Caffe, February 2nd, via Zoom
- Australian Crop Breeders, Ltd.: Breeders Week 2024, Adelaide, Australia, March 4th-8th
22 January 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Quality Characteristics of Twelve Advanced Lines of Avena magna ssp. domestica Grown in Three Contrasting Locations in Morocco (Peer-reviewed)
- Brand renewal: the next decades to Helsinki Mills' story (Article in Finnish)
- Planning for 2024 on tillage farms
- #GrainHacks: Oatmeal
- Can Plant Breeding Ignore Genomic Selection?
- Sask. oat processors optimistic
- The Merry Mill sharing their story (Video)
- Genome-wide analysis and expression of the aquaporin gene family in Avena sativa L. (Peer-reviewed)
- Glycemic Responses of Milk and Plant-Based Drinks: Food Matrix Effects (Peer-reviewed)
- Celiac Canada announces world-first celiac research award and calls for 2024 applications
- Making hay and silage (01/24)
- Axial receives an exemption [in Finland] (Article in Finnish)
- CultivAé - Entrepreneurs anchored in the agricultural world (Website in French)
- When to Combine Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- Four PPP Projects Recently Granted – Enabling Progress in Spring Wheat, Oats, Potatoes and Berries
- New Australian grain oat variety under evaluation for milling
- Homemade ice cream (made with oat 'milk') with a waffle cone
Events:
- 2024 Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium, College Station, TX, USA, February 15th
- University of Minnesota: 2024 Summer Institute in Plant Breeding
Research grants:
15 January 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- Navara, Europe’s largest oat mill is open for business
- Ireland: Spring Cereal Recommended Lists 2024
- Status of world oat production
- Nikolai Vavilov: The Father of Genebanks
- Oats prefer side-banded nitrogen
- Agriland Fodder Survey: One third of farmers facing a shortage
- Can Oatly reinvigorate slowing oatmilk category sales with launch unsweetened, clean-label options?
- More than $10 million awarded to USask crop research projects
- Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan Invest $14.7 Million in Crop Research
- New white hulled milling oat and forage oat from CDC, USask
- WGRF Commits $5.1 Million to 25 New Research Projects
- New AFBI project - SUREFOOD-I
- Planet Oat releases ‘milkiest’ product yet with Barista Lovers, oat milk starts 'treading water'
- Recipe for "Bird Fat Balls"
- Test weight calculators for Canadian grains
- Court remedy sought for unfulfilled contracts
- POGA: Oat levies
- Canadian Grain Commission: Grain harvest and export quality
- Cereal-legume intercropping: a smart review using topic modelling (Peer-reviewed)
Events:
- German Plant Breeding Conference, 2024 - Early bird deadline is January 31st
- NAMA 2024 Spring Conference, 9-12 March, Marco Island, FL, USA
Job opening:
- Postdoc in the chemistry of oat-Fusarium interactions - University of Copenhagen (deadline extended)
08 January 2024
The Weekly Web Harvest:
- FARM UPDATE 215 LOADING OATS & SUGAR BEET, MORE FLOODS (Video)
- Oat protein challenges beta glucan in heart health race
- Protein may be oats’ next step
- CROPDIVA Practice abstract #4.2 DIAAS and contribution to RDI: optimization criteria for plant-based protein mixtures
- Demonstrating oat seeding rates as a cultural control method for controlling wild oats in tame oats
- The Best Nondairy Milks for Espresso Drinks
- Annual Review and Outlook for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 2023 (Ireland)
- Farming roots and innovation lead Andrew Booth to top award
- Editorial: Advances in the study of polyploid evolution in wild populations
- Interference of sterile oat (Avena ludoviciana) and Mexican pricklepoppy (Argemone mexicana) in chickpea (Peer-reviewed)
- Investigating physical factors and bioactive components that affect grain quality
- Economics of Raising Oats - Practical Cover Croppers (Video)
- Several factors pressure organic grain prices in 2023
- DAMIAN MASON, AUTHOR AND PODCASTER, INTERVIEWS MOGA/POGA DIRECTOR
- DECLINING OAT CULTIVATION DESPITE INCREASING DEMAND: “NO OATS ARE LEFT LYING AROUND,” IS THE CLEAR MESSAGE FROM THE OAT MILLS TO LOCAL AGRICULTURE (Article in German)
- Its good properties attracted the Lahtis to cultivate the new oat variety 'Luukas' (Article in Finnish)
Events:
- Ready to Head Back to School? Join us in February for Seed School! (Winnipeg, Canada, 12-14 February, 2024)
- CropConnect 2024, Winnipeg, Canada, 14-15 February
- Monogram Conference 2024, Harpenden, UK, 25-27 March
Board vacancies:
02 January 2024
Happy New Year! Here’s the latest usually-Weekly Web Harvest:
- Global partnerships make Avena a Canadian plant-based leader
- The Merry Mill: Update on unharvested crop (Video)
- A look back at area, yield and production figures for 2023
- AHDB: Agronomy Conference 2023 (Video)
- Cover crops: enough already
- BenAdamsAgri - Intercropping results - featuring special guest (Video)
- POGA: Key Messages for Oat Growers Association Levy/Service Fee Increase
- Sustainability, stewardship and food security
- You can now add Oat Made to your Mornflake online shop!
- Canadian oat market on roller coaster ride
- GIWA Crop Report – December 2023
- Phenotypic and genetic characterization of an Avena sativa L. germplasm collection of diverse origin: implications for food-oat breeding in Chile (Peer-reviewed)
- AEGIC Annual report, 2022-23
- Overall Canadian crop production lower for wheat, canola, barley and oats
- Festive fuel
- 5 Scottish foods to support menopausal women
- USDA-NASS: County Estimates for barley, oats, and wheat are available on Quick Stats
- Low-intensity cereal rotation and organic production can reduce the risk of mycotoxin contamination in oats
- The Business of Agriculture: All About Oats with 2 Canadian Producers (Podcast)
- Organic tillage research in Wexford
- Evidence of development of underutilised crops and their ecosystem services in Europe: a systematic mapping approach (Peer-reviewed)
- What the dark times of Crop Marketing! (Podcast)
- Craig Carlson: "Rolling out our new ZÜRN 150 plot combine w/ HarvestMaster"
- Gluten-free oat mills in North America
- FP Genetics 2024 seed guide
- Startup Brose Oats wins big
- Tanpa Nasi! Resep OAT BEEF BULGOGI GIMBAP [Korean Seaweed Rice Rolls 김밥] (Video - subtitled in English)
- UK’s first independent Cover Crops Guide launched
- 10th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body - Summary report, 20–24 November 2023
- Wisconsin oat and barley performance trials
- NDSU Oat variety trials
- Gluten-free oats remain complicated as 2023 comes to a close: New article from Gluten Free Watchdog
- SA Territory Manager Rehn Freebairn out and about today with Allan Rattey (Video)
- The options for weed control in winter cereals over the coming weeks
- The new Recommended Lists (RL) is leaner and meaner
- The IAS-CSIC and the IFAPA of Córdoba analyze resistance to pathogenic fungi (Article in Spanish)
- Genomic selection for herbage yield in forage oats (Avena sp.) (Preprint)
Job openings: (see home page story, 02 January 2024)
Funding opportunities:
Events:
- PFI Annual Conference, Des Moines, IA, USA, 19-20 January, 2024
- National Tillage Conference, Kilkenny, Ireland, 31 January, 2024
- Nordic Field Trial Network (NFTN) Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 7-8 February, 2024
- Midwest Covers and Grains Conference, Mankato, MN, USA, March 4th, 2024
- 21st Australian Agronomy Conference, Albany, WA, 21-24 October, 2024
(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