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Western Australian researchers found that new milling oat varieties can help control crown rot, a disease that costs the state's grain industry an estimated $167 million a year in lost wheat yields. The varieties could widen rotation options in areas with high infection levels.
Oats that resist crown rot make it easier to rotate away from wheat, which may shift some Australian area and supply between the two crops over time.
farmingahead.com.auMark SaundersOct 9, 2019After 16 past disease events, Oats moved a median +2.3% over 5 sessions (69% higher; middle half -2.7% to +4.3%), and -1.1% 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.
