| Agronomy
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Common
oats
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| Oats have
a panicle type of inflorescence and is used primarily for livestock feed
and to a small extent for human consumption. |
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Oats are
also used as a companion crop and small seeded pasture legumes can be seeded
directly into a field of oats. The purpose of this is to give the
farmer some monetary return from his land during the year of forage crop
establishment. Oats are grown mostly in the northern part of the
United States and the spring types are the most predominant. |
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| The seeds
of oats thresh with the hulls attached. It is common to find two
distinct sizes of oat kernels because each full-sized kernel in the panicle
will have smaller kernel growing right beside it. |
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