Oats (Hawer)

Characteristics:

  • Forage cereal usually give good green bite in early winter and spring. Very palatable.
  • They react well to irrigation or supplementary irrigation.
  • Use rotational grazing with a rest period for re-growth.
  • Cereals are suited to grazing, hay production and silage.
  • Marketing/end product use: Human consumption, Animal feed/forage, Grain, Hay/fodder & Cover crop.

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PALLINUP OATS
  • Grain suited for milling/export
  • Early maturing cultivar
  • Moderately resistant to stem and leaf rust.
  • Widely adapted to all types of soil
  • A tall oat with excellent grain quality, material for grazing, silage and hay
  • May have straw strength problems with early sowings and in high yielding situations
  • Planting months April- May
  • Sowing rate- winter rainfall region 80-100kg/ha
  • Suited regions: Eastern Cape, Western Cape & Southern Cape
OVERBERG OATS
  • Growing length: Intermediate type (medium maturity)
  • High yield potential
  • Medium cold demand (Vernalization period).
  • Can produce palatable grazing from May to end of August
  • Can be utilized for purposes of grazing, silage and hay
  • Sowing density dryland: 25 to 50kg/ha
  • Sowing density irrigation: 75 to 125kg/ha
DUNNART OATS
  • A dwarf milling variety
  • Mid maturity
  • 10-15cm taller than Mitika
  • Improved plant colour
  • Cereal cyst nematode resistant
  • Planting months April- May
  • Sowing rate- winter rainfall region 80-100kg/ha
  • Widely adapted to all types of soil
  • Suited regions: Eastern Cape, Western Cape & Southern Cape
MAGNIFICO OATS
  • Growing length: Winter type (full maturity)
  • High yield potential
  • High cold demand (Vernalization period) and produces palatable grazing from May to end of September
  • Can be utilized for purposes of grazing, silage and hay
  • Sowing density dryland: 25 to 50kg/ha
  • Sowing density irrigation: 75 to 125kg/ha

Disease rating of oat varieties:

 Oat End use Height Maturity Hectoliter weight SteRust Leaf Rust CCN Res  Disease  Tolerance BYDV Septoria Bacterial blight

ReLeather Leaf

Milling Oats
Dunnart M TD M H S MR R MT MR MR

MS

MS
Overberg M D E H S MSS VS I MSS S S
Possum M D EM H MSS S VS I S MS S MSS
Williams M MT E H S R S I MRMS MRMS MS
Wombat M D EM H MSS MS R T MR MS MS
Yallara M MT EM H S MS R I MS MS MS

 

End use: M = milling, F = feed grain, G = grazing, H = hay

Plant height: D = dwarf, TD = tall dwarf, T = tall, ST = short tall, MT = moderate tall

Maturity: E = early, EM = early mid, M = mid-season, ML = mid late season, LM = late mid-season, L = late, VL=very late

Hectoliter weight: H = heavy, M = medium, L = light

R = Resistant RMR = Resistant to moderately resistant MR = Moderately resistant MRMS = Moderately resistant to moderately susceptible MS = Moderately susceptible MSS = Moderately susceptible to susceptible S = Susceptible SVS = Susceptible to very susceptible  VS = Very susceptible

Disease tolerance: T = tolerant, MT = moderately tolerant, MI = moderately intolerant, I = intolerant

Ratings conducted: P ZWER GRDC

Oats (Hawer)

Information

Crop/Specie: Oats

Cultivars: Pallinup, Overberg, Magnifico, Dunnart

Seeding: Winter rainfall 80-100kg/ha, Summer rainfall dryland winter production 50-75kg/ha

Rainfall (mm/year): Good moisture conservation or 300mm water over growing period

Suited Regions: The whole of South Africa

Planting Months: Winter rainfall areas Apr - May, Summer rainfall areas Feb - Apr

Soil: Widely adapted to most soil conditions

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