Loading…
USDA's Risk Management Agency changed crop insurance for oats, allowing crop revenue coverage priced off CBOT soft red winter wheat futures instead of oat futures. Hybrid winter rye varieties also become separately insurable, with written agreements required from 2025.
The change affects how farmers hedge and insure oat production, which may influence planted acreage over time. The direct price impact on feed markets is limited.
blog-crop-news.extension.umn.eduAnnouncements, events Other Small grainsDec 20, 2023After 16 past neutral policy events, OATS moved a median -1.1% over 5 sessions (44% higher; middle half -3.1% to +4.3%), and -5.7% 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.
