Forage Oat Seeds

Forage oats are a broadly adapted and reliable winter forage crop and are the most widely used of the forage cereals. Easy to establish, they are the only true forage
cereal that can be sown in late summer and early autumn, giving forage oats the highest potential yield of the forage cereals.

Forage oats have a winter habit – growth will slow over the colder months and are slow to establish if sown too late. They produce reasonably well from a late winter/early spring planting given a higher sowing rate. In southern Australia, barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) is a significant disease, limiting production in susceptible varieties.