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The Oat Crop - Production and Utilization (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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The Oat Crop - Production and Utilization (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: World Crop Series
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Dr Samuel Johnson, that famous eighteenth century lexicographer,
said of oats 'A grain which in England is generally given to horses
but in Scotland supports the people'. And presumably it was a
Scotsman who riposted 'But what people and what horses ' That
exchange encapsulates much of the history and role of oats - a
cereal, once important as human food in parts of northern Europe
but latterly used mainly as animal feed, especially favoured for
horses. Although no longer a major food anywhere, oats still have a
special and favoured niche in the cuisine of people living in the
cooler and wetter regions of some parts of northern Europe.
However, there is currently a resurgence of interest in the crop,
because there is now considerable scientific evidence to support
the view of Scotsmen who never doubted its dietary value. This book
- very much an international effort, carefully orchestrated by
Robert Welch - traces the origin, history and scientific progress
which forms a sound basis for any further crop improvement and for
broadening the utilization and marketing of oat products. Should
rational consider ations lead to an increase in the importance of
this cereal, I, for one, would be glad since I believe the rural
landscape is the poorer for the increased rarity of golden fields
of rippling oats which I used to be involved in harvesting."
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