Porridge, oatcakes, baby foods and breakfast cereals all use a lot of oats, but did you know they are also widely used in things like cosmetics and adhesives too?
Even more of our oats go into animal feed. They thrive on poor soil in cool climates hence their inextricable link with Scotland.
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Award-winning young farmer at HGCA conference
On-farm management of nitrogen for milling wheat will be tackled by award-winning young farmer James Price at this year's HGCA/nabim Milling Wheat Conference on 25 February.
HGCA survey shows cereal quality improvement on 2008 results