Oats, a seemingly simple breakfast food, but inside each grain lies DNA that BYU professors are helping decode, work that could shape the future of farming, nutrition, and food security.

A group of a dozen farmers are pooling their resources to better market their food-grade oats. The group hopes to build up to 1 million bushels in the coming years. Martin Larsen harvested these oats ...

Recent consumer popularity has raised the oats profile in the United States, which is the world’s largest importer of the crop. Oats futures have been in place since 1877, and briefly matched corn ...

A recent breakthrough has given genetic scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) better insight into the genetics of oats, a crop that has been giving them trouble for a while. The effort ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The oat harvest in Canada's top-producing region of central Saskatchewan is far behind normal progress but farmers are catching up fast with nearly ideal early ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Michael McMullen, veteran oats breeder at North Dakota State University, has this answer when asked about working with a crop that doesn't get much attention. "I like to work for the ...

Working well as a cover crop to blanket the ground, it has a deep root system to deter erosion and help create a ...