Annual whole-crop forage · NACE 01.190
Green-fodder oats, whole crop
Avena sativa · Norwegian: Grønnfôrhavre
Oats taken green as a whole crop, stem and head together, rather than threshed for grain. Fast to establish, useful in a reseeding year when a new ley will not yield, and a bulky, well-accepted roughage.
This is a FORAGE crop, not a grain crop. It is cut green and baled; no oats are threshed, dried, stored or sold as grain, which would fall under a different activity code (NACE 01.11).
The crop’s year
Typical timing at Gol. Green is when it goes in the ground, amber is when it comes off — and both move by weeks between seasons, because snowmelt and heat sum decide, not the calendar.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January: No operation | February: No operation | March: No operation | April: No operation | May: Sowing | June: Sowing | July: Harvest | August: Harvest | September: No operation | October: No operation | November: No operation | December: No operation |
Supply facts
- Life cycle
- True annual, sown and harvested in one season
- Harvest window
- July to mid-August, cut before the grain fills
- Supplied as
- Round bales, wrapped
- Field-stacked wrapped bales
- Typically bought by
- Beef and sheep holdings; anyone needing volume in a reseeding year
Harvest volume in Hallingdal depends on the season. Availability is confirmed per enquiry against what is actually in store, and no tonnage is committed before that confirmation.
Feed value varies by field, cut, weather and storage. Any figure that matters commercially comes from a laboratory analysis of the actual batch, quoted with its method and date — never from a table on a website.
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