{"id":4711,"date":"2013-09-14T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2013-09-16T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T09:46:35","slug":"oat-heads-forming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/oat-heads-forming\/","title":{"rendered":"Oat Heads Forming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4651\" alt=\"20130915 053\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-053-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-053-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-053.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Three months after <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/hairy-paddock\/\">germination<\/a>, most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/finishing-the-oats\/\">oats<\/a>\u00a0have &#8220;headed&#8221; and will probably flower in the next couple of days. \u00a0Typically harvest for hay is best about 5 weeks after this, so we are on target for harvest around 20th October. \u00a0Last year we cut on the 10th and baled on the 18th which was a bit early in the season, but the oats were ready, and we had to work round the rain. \u00a0This year by <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/sowing-our-oats\/\">sowing <\/a>a late maturing variety (Winjardie) and pushing out sowing by a month, we are hoping we can cut, rake and bale \u00a0around 10 days later and over fewer days to maintain good colour in the hay. \u00a0Oat maturation is generally triggered by the lengthening days, so there is only so much you can do to manipulate its development.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-064.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4650\" alt=\"20130915 064\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-064-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-064-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-064.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months after germination, most of the oats\u00a0have &#8220;headed&#8221; and will probably flower in the next couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-053.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}