Pepsico – Quaker oats variety evaluation
Pepsico/Quaker/Frito-Lay
To evaluate yield of 19 oat varieties under different environments.
Major highlights of this trial were grain yield and disease incidence. Summaries will be available when the trial is finalized.
Production of oats (Avena sativa L.) is influenced by several factors that include; rainfall or precipitation, temperature, solar irradiation and soil conditions in which the crop is being grown (Sorrells and Simmons, 1992). These factors appear to affect the crop at different phenology stages during the season. Therefore, timing of seeding is crucial in a given production area so as to synchronize it with occurrence of ideal weather conditions favourable for growth and development. Oats production has been on the rise in Canada with an expectation of +15 % to 4 million tonnes in 2019 (Statistics Canada, 2019). This has been attributed to a 15.2% increase in harvested area (to 2.9 million acres) coupled with new higher yielding varieties available for producers across Canada. New varieties still need to be tested across different environments so as to allow producers to have a wide selection of the ones suitable for their areas of production.