# Quest for the “perfect oat”: PepsiCo project leverages crop-boosting intelligence

> PepsiCo and academic partners released a free Oat Growth Guide from its Opti-Oat project, analyzing over one million data points from 120 commercial crops and 60 trial plots. The guide is expected to raise yields by 5 to 10 percent.

- Date: 2020-01-17 · published 2020-01-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region UK · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/55138-quest-for-the-perfect-oat-pepsico-project-leverages-crop-boosting-intelligence
- Commodities: [Oats](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OATS.md)

## Why it matters

Agronomic yield gains for oats would add supply over time, though the near-term price effect is negligible.

## Read by commodity

- OATS: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OATS | 2025-07-17 | [Canada’s oat crop looks promising \| The Western Producer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23816-canada-s-oat-crop-looks-promising-the-western-producer.md) | -5.4% | -10.9% |
| OATS | 2019-03-13 | [A Case for Selling Old-Crop Oats](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6535-a-case-for-selling-old-crop-oats.md) | +5.5% | +8.7% |
| OATS | 2026-01-19 | [Big oat crop in 2025/26 pointing to less acres next year - Grainews](https://feedsoft.ai/events/21127-big-oat-crop-in-2025-26-pointing-to-less-acres-next-year-grainews.md) | -0.9% | +3.4% |
| OATS | 2025-03-24 | [Flax is the bright spot in new crop price projections  - SaskAgToday.com](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25665-flax-is-the-bright-spot-in-new-crop-price-projections-saskagtoday-com.md) | -8.0% | -6.6% |
| OATS | 2026-02-23 | [The Cinderella crop steps into the spotlight - Crop Production Magazine](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20668-the-cinderella-crop-steps-into-the-spotlight-crop-production-magazine.md) | -4.5% | +8.5% |

## Sources

- foodingredientsfirst.com: https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/quest-for-the-perfect-oat-pepsico-project-leverages-crop-boosting-intelligence.html

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