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Despite the many useful properties oats are used less frequently as food crop than as technical. Oat groats, flour, oatmeal, biscuits and cookies are produced on the oats basis. As fodder crop oats are the most widespread.
Mostly oats are used as feed for horses and cattle as well, for poultry as a source of energy and strength. Straw and chaff are used as feed additionally to grain. It is common to sow oats simultaneously with peas and vetch for green feed and straw. The content of such useful components like fibre promotes faster chewing and saliva wetting, thereby it supports better digestion.
In addition to the fibre oats contain vitamins B1 and B2, proteins, starch, fat and sugar. Oat grain is chewed lighter than other cereals reducing tooth wear. Fodder oats are irreplaceable kind of concentrated feed for livestock and poultry. Crumbling and rolling of oats increase the digestibility of grain to 4-20%. Much protein makes oats an irreplaceable component of animal fodders.
Moisture Max 12.0 %
Protein Min 12.0 %
Total Dietary Fiber 10.0 %
Fat 6.0 %