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Spring Oats Varieties: Haydn vs. Goliath for Seed and Forage

Watch Keith and Dale compare two spring oat varieties side-by-side in our test plots. You'll see how Haydn oats work as a dual-purpose crop for both seed and forage, while Goliath oats deliver more biomass for hay and grazing. Learn which variety fits your operation and why adding peas changes the game.

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0:13 They'll were in our oats plots now we've got two different types of oats that we're going to look at together right.

0:18 Here because there's a purpose for each and there would be a reason to plant each. So over here on this side we have our Haydn oats. These are both South Dakota varieties, relatively new, very good varieties of oats.

0:33 Notes it's a true spring, what I would call a dual-purpose. Those you could grow this for the seed and it's a very good yield. Some of our growers up in the Dakotas, you know, regularly get hundred to 120 bushel yields off this, but it's.

0:48 Also leafy enough and tall enough and it has enough forage potential it can make very good and it's a less expensive boat than this one. This is the Goliath oats.

0:58 This is more of a true for a joke and you can tell that it's already taller.

1:02 Than these and it will continue to grow because it's really not even, we're gonna get more overall growth and forage biomass. It's not as good of a seed producer as what the paintings are, so therefore it's going to cost more.

1:22 Because you know we have to take the rollers more to grow up because it doesn't yield as much but I just looking at these, these are beautiful, you know, these it makes a tremendous tremendous hay or for a tree to drop it.

1:35 And especially if we threw in some peas in here, they'll, what would this look like with its appeasing? But this, better seriously, if you look at the structure of an oak plant, they grow very upright. They don't really tiller and bush out so.

2:21 Neck and neck. It's not the Fist Grimm's any faster than the Hayden's, that's a positive if you're wanting to let it. If you're willing to let it go longer you can get more total yield out of it day for day.

2:40 Up until this the Hayden's bloom out, they're almost identical. The advantage to this is that you can throw a couple of weeks and accumulate more BioMEMS. The drawback like you said is that when it gets out to things later.

2:58 You're running into summer heat and you don't get the seed yields because you just lose out. So depending on how long you're going to let it go, that would dictate which of these two varieties you confront have, and with those forty.

3:13 Ten peas being a little longer season type PE also it's going to grow and match very very good combination high quality good protein density that's why they're a popular comment.

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