FL0567-a New Forage-Type Oat Cultivar Resistant to a New Strain of Crown Rust in the Southeastern U.S.

FL0567 is a new winter oat variety that was co-developed by the University of Florida and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSUAC) was released in 2013 under the SUNGRAINS cooperative small grain breeding program among six Southern Universities. 

This new oat cultivar is resistant to a new strain of crown rust that decimated popular cultivars of forage oats in Florida, and southern Georgia and Alabama in 2012 and 2013. FL0567 has considerable potential for forage, seed, conservation tillage, and for wildlife purposes in the southeastern U.S.  It is unique due to its high level of disease resistance to the new crown rust, and is a high yielding forage-type oat with early season vigorous growth and high tillering capacity.  It has performed very well in forage trials and adequately in seed yield trials in regional testing.