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Flinders Oats

Flinders Oats is a late maturing grazing and hay oat with strong establishment and early growth, high dry matter yield and great recovery from cutting and grazing.

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Flinders Oats has strong establishment and early growth, high dry matter yield and prolific tillering ability, excellent recovery from cutting and grazing, highly resistant to crown rust, and has late maturity. Flinders Oats is an upgrade from Savannah Oats.

Its stems are of medium thickness, with wide leaves and it is resistant to rust strains. Flinders has the ability to germinate and establish from early sowings into warm soil which is an important requirement for forage oat varieties.

  • Strong establishment and early growth
  • High dry matter yield and prolific tillering ability
  • Excellent recovery from cutting and grazing
  • Highly resistant to crown rust 
  • Late maturity

Breeding

Flinders has high dry matter (DM) yield in both initial growth and regrowth. The DM yield is competitive with other forage oat varieties, such as Taipan, Comet and Wizard. Flinders is a late maturity forage oats, flowering a few days earlier than Taipan. The ability to germinate and establish with early sowings into warm soil is an important requirement for forage oats varieties. From the overseas laboratory tests and Australian field tests conducted to test warm soil emergence, Flinders has shown good germination and establishment, equal to that of Taipan.

Sowing and establishment

Flinders is best sown at a depth of 30-60mm to ensure strong establishment through good seed to soil contact as well as the seed being sown in soil with good moisture. The sowing depth is important so that if the crop is to be grazed, the plants root down correctly and are not “pulled” easily by grazing of sheep or cattle. Sowing oats at the correct depth also minimises the potential for the crop to lodge, which can happen later in the growing season when high winds are present.

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