# Can Oats Improve Bottom Lines In The Corn Belt?

> Iowa farmers are reconsidering oats as a rotation crop to improve margins and reduce chemical runoff, after decades of corn and soybean dominance. The article covers a farm that harvested its first oat crop in decades and sold the straw for animal bedding.

- Date: 2019-11-01 · published 2019-11-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/56148-can-oats-improve-bottom-lines-in-the-corn-belt
- Commodities: [Oats](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OATS.md)

## Why it matters

Renewed oat acreage in the Corn Belt would add supply over time, but the effect is small and mainly a longer-term consideration for oat prices.

## Read by commodity

- OATS: neutral

## Sources

- ipm.org: https://www.ipm.org/show/eartheats/2019-11-01/oats-improve-bottom-lines-corn-belt

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