date:Dec 02, 2013
r than last year, but better than the long-term average. Of the oats crop, 92 per cent or 1,126 million kilos exceeded the minimum requirement of a 52-kilo hectolitre weight set for quality monitoring. The limit for oats for human consumption is a hectolitre weight of 58 kilograms. This was exceeded by only one-third of the crop or 380 million kilos, while last year the corresponding figure was no less than 680 million kilos.
The proportion of shrivelled grains for oats was 7.5 per cent. This i