Iowa farmers lack market for oats despite large cereal plant [View all]

DES MOINES (AP) — Once the nation’s leading oats producer, Iowa growers now struggle to find markets for the crop.

That’s the dilemma Earl Canfield of Dunkerton faced three years ago: He had about 3,000 bushels of oats, but no place to sell them profitably.

Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids, the world’s largest cereal production plant, does not take in oats from Iowa growers.

And most Iowa livestock operations don’t include oats in the feed supply of their cattle, pigs and chickens.

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