| Images of Oat | |
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| Note: The following cover crop images are part of an extensive collection of cover crop photographs maintained the UC SAREP staff. The images have not been completely categorized and labeled. Some will be included in a book on cover crops due out in 1997, but all images have been made available online because of the overwhelming number of requests we have had for them. | |
| Avena sativa, oat, is commonly grown as a winter-annual cover crop. |
| Oat is commonly used in vineyards and orchards. |
| Oat and other grasses have fibrous root systems that are efficient at scavenging soil nitrate. Woodland, Yolo Co., CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Due to its fine stems, California red oat is not the best oat variety for supporting vetches. Hopland, Mendocino Co., CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Oat grown for grain fulfills several functions of a winter-annual cover crop. Esparto, Yolo Co., CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Spring mowing of cover crops may reduce water stress and lessen frost threat to grapevines. Dry Creek, Sonoma Co. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Spring mowing of cover crops may reduce water stress and lessen frost threat to grapevines. Dry Creek, Sonoma Co. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Oat has a fibrous root system that is efficient at nitrate scavengin. West Sacramento, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Oat has a fibrous root system. West Sacramento, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Deposition of cover crop residues in the grape vine row has shown some value in weed control. Hopland, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg. |
| Oat is commonly used in orchard cover crops. Winters, CA. Photo by Jack K. Clark. |
| Various oat cultivars provide good structural support for the twining, vining vetches. Winters, yolo Co., CA. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark. |
| Common vetch tendrils embrace an oat stem. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark. |
| Oat and woollypod vetch. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark. |
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