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Farmers in Minnesota and Iowa are adding oats to their corn and soybean rotations and are working to open an oat processing plant in Albert Lea in 2026. The movement is a response to climate change and unpredictable markets, but growers need large food companies to buy their oats.
Establishing local processing capacity could create a domestic oat outlet, but the market effect depends on buyer commitments that have not yet materialized.
mprnews.orgNina Moini, Ellen FinnSep 10, 2025Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
