POGA provides producers with the resources they need to grow the best quality oat crops. This page contains tools and reference info. Lower down the page, we also describe the other pages of practical value to producers to be found under Production Resources.
Tools & Reference Materials for Producers
In this section, you will find tools and information to help you throughout the whole year. Click on the links in the yellow boxes to the right to access these tools!
- Seed Guides (for AB, MB and SK)
- Saskatchewan Seed Surveys
- GRL Western Canadian Oat Harvest Survey
- Fact Sheets (e.g., to help you manage herbicide-resistant wild oats)
- Grain Silage Greenfeed Calculator
- Nutrient Removal Calculator
- Keep it Clean
- Production is also about keeping safe on the farm! POGA supports the CASA BeGrainSafe program. Click here to learn more about the program.
Oat Growers Manual
When you open (click on) the Manual, the first page takes you to the Manual Overview. Scroll down a little on the grey column (the right side of the page) – this takes you to the Manual’s Table of Contents, and you can click on the chapter you want to open and read. Click here to open the overview of the Manual.
Do you want to save or print a pdf of the Manual? Then click on the first option in the grey side column, or click here: Downloads: Oat Grower Manual.
Do you want to save or print a pdf Quick Reference (Summary) of the Manual? Then click on the second option in the grey side column, or click here: Downloads: Quick Reference Guide.
You can also access previous versions of the Oat Growers Manual – scroll down the grey side column to access the 2017 or 2010 versions.
Oat Protein Research Paper
Published in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, by Vanessa Alexander, Kirby T. Nilsen, Sijo Joseph, Trust Beta, and Lovemore Nkhata Malunga: Effects of genotype and environment on the physiochemical properties of Canadian oat varieties. We can’t publish this in POGA’s Research Projects web pages because it wasn’t funded by us. However, it contains valuable information for oat producers. Click here to read the paper.
POGA and/or the Commissions have, however, funded various projects by two of the authors (Nilsen and Joseph) – for more on those, go to: https://poga.ca/research/research-projects/ and filter by author name.
Photo Gallery
The photo gallery provides pictures of interest to producers and the public: oat producers and farms, taken at various times of the year and locations across the prairies.
Don't Stop Here!
But..Don’t Stop on the Production Resources page!
You will also be interested in POGA’s Supported Initiatives page. There, you will see a list of some of the important programs that POGA and/or the provincial commissions support to help spread agricultural education and public outreach to the larger community!
SEED GUIDES
Click below for 2024 Seed Guides for each province
SASKATCHEWAN SEED SURVEYS
The Saskatchewan Seed Surveys are produced in conjunction with SaskOats, Sask Wheat, SaskBarley & SaskPulse.
2023 Survey (graciously formatted by Sask Wheat)
CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION, GRAIN RESEARCH LABORATORY (GRL): QUALITY OF WESTERN CANADIAN OATS SURVEY
The GRL has conducted a more detailed oat quality harvest survey in 2023!
FACT SHEETS TO CHECK OUT FOR KEY INFORMATION
GRAIN SILAGE GREENFEED CALCULATOR
An Excel calculator, from Saskatchewan Agriculture’s website: Link to the calculator.
ONLINE NUTRIENT REMOVAL CALCULATOR
Two University of Saskatchewan (USask) soil scientists created a new Prairie Nutrient Removal Calculator—an online tool that provides a critical piece of information to help make on-farm fertilizer decisions. Link to the calculator.
KEEP IT CLEAN
POGA began participating in the Cereals Canada Keep It Clean Program in 2016. This program provides information producers need to deliver crops that meet the requirements of domestic and export customers. Because it is important to keep markets open, POGA continues to fund this program. For more information on POGA’s support of this program and links to various Keep It Clean info pages, click here. And here is a link to Keep It Clean’s Pre-Harvest Interval calculator.
