All Things Oats + Oat Mill Site Tour

Saturday, Sept. 13
4-6 p.m.

Location

360 E 14th St.
Albert Lea, MN 56007

Hosts

Anne & Landon Plagge and Amanda & Knute Severson

Anne and Landon Plagge organized a group of 85 farmers and community members to bring a new farmer-owned grain milling facility to Albert Lea, Minnesota. The new facility, Green Acres Milling, will break ground this year. When it’s complete, it will handle 4 million bushels of oats annually, producing domestically sourced oat groats, flakes and flour through local supply chains. Oats are sourced from farmer members from Iowa, Minnesota and surrounding states that farm using regenerative practices.

At this field day, you’ll have a chance to visit the Green Acres Milling construction site. You’ll learn about growing oats and grazing cattle on cover crops following oats. You’ll also hear how adding oats into row crop rotations and having a viable local market can translate to economic opportunity.

Meal

Snacks will be provided.

See & Discuss

Oat production best practices, from planting to harvest
Food-grade oats grown for local consumers to support the domestic supply chain and fulfill market demand
Using oats as a third crop to boost a farm’s economic and environmental resilience
Grazing summer cover crops after oats and integrating livestock with small-grain crop rotations
Oat milling byproduct for use as animal feed and bedding

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All Things Oats + Oat Mill Site Tour