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Practical Farmers of Iowa is working to build markets for small grains such as oats, wheat, rye and barley through food and beverage company pilot projects. The article notes that acreage of these crops has fallen sharply over decades, reducing the infrastructure farmers once relied on.
This is a structural, long-term effort to expand small-grain acreage and markets in the Corn Belt, with no immediate effect on feed grain supply or prices.
farmprogress.comSep 23, 2019After 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.
