Oats

     Today I stumbled across a crop that I hadn't shown yet. If you're into reading titles, you know what it is already: Oats. Oats look pretty much like wheat in it's early days, which is true of most grasses. But when the flowering bodies start to grow, differences become apparent.

     Instead of the wheat's organized heads, oats have individual seeds scattered around the top of the plant. These oats are almost certainly to be baled into hay that will then be fed to horses. Stock animals enjoy oat hay as well, and the seeds (also called oats) can be fed to people. You've had oatmeal, haven't you? While not as common a crop as wheat, oats are far more prolific as a species and can be found growing wild around the county.