Husky brand logo with the words 'Spring Oat' and a stylized wheat symbol above the name.

Husky Spring Oats

Highest Yielding Winter Oat on DAFM RL 2026

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Agronomy Characteristics

  • Extraordinary consistency on-farm and in the DAFM trials

  • With weather patterns changing, choose the only oat variety to deliver extremely reliable and consistent performance

  • Can be drilled from mid-October* to mid-April, ultra-flexibility

  • Proven winter hardiness in trials and on-farm

  • High yielding variety with moderate resistance to lodging

  • Short, stiff oat to stand

  • Very good grain quality

  • Early to mature

*consult an IASIS agronomist for advice on drilling HUSKY in Autumn

Organic Oat available, contact Seedtech more information.

Bar chart titled 'Husky Consistancy DAMF OAT Trials 2007-2023' showing relative yield in each trial from 2007 to 2023. Bars are color-coded blue for winter and light blue for spring. The y-axis ranges from 80 to 110, with a red dotted line at 100. Source listed as 'DAFM Recommended List', note explains bars represent Husky yield in each trial.
Farmer inspecting a clump of healthy green and yellow grass in a lush wheat field.

Husky oat showing no effect of a late spring frost in Seedtech winter oat trials 2021. Competitor oat showing stunting and increased shoot formation from late frosts on the left.

“Husky out yielded the controls in 31 out of 34 DAFM trials - unrivalled consistency and reliability for the grower, agronomist and merchant”
— Dr. Tim O'Donovan, Technical Director

Getting the most from Husky

Drill from mid-October to mid-April; ultra-flexibility

  • A very early maturing, high yielding variety with moderate resistance to lodging

  • Moderately susceptible to straw breakdown

  • Moderately susceptible to mildew and susceptible to crown rust

  • Very good grain quality

2025 Spring Drilling Guide for seedtech, showing planting schedules for beans, oats, organic oats, spring wheat, malting barley, feeding barley, and oilseed rape through January to May with seed rates, dates, and crop varieties.
Close-up of a person holding oat grains attached to a stalk in a wheat field.

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