Growing Oats: Best Varieties, Planting Guides, Care, Problems and harvest

How Much Space Do I Need?

Oats can produce 36 pounds per bushel (463.386928 kg / m3). Gene Logsdon states in his book, Small Scale Grain Raising, that one bushel of raw oats makes about fourteen pounds (180.206028 kg) of rolled oats. So you don’t have to grow a lot of plants for a big harvest.

You can grow five bushels on 1/12 of an acre, which is 60×60 feet. If you break that in half you can grow two and a half bushels of oats, quite enough for a small family breakfast needs, in a 30×30 garden space (30 feet = 9.14400 m).