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Iowa and Minnesota farmers are testing food-grade oats and investing in a new oat mill, pitching them to Quaker and General Mills. Quaker currently sources oats from Canada, and the article notes threatened tariffs on Canadian goods.
This is a long-term demand story for domestic oat production in the US Midwest and has little near-term price impact on feed oats.
investigatemidwest.orgErin Jordan, The GazetteAug 26, 2025After 15 past neutral trade events, OATS moved a median -0.8% over 5 sessions (27% higher; middle half -2.4% to +2.2%), and +2.7% over 20.
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.
