Wheat, rye, and oats are grown, and cattle raising and dairying are important.
Livestock farming is dominant, but wheat, rye, and oats are grown in the Klagenfurt basin and the Lavanttal; corn (maize) in the Gailtal; and fruit along the lakeshores.
Wheat, barley, and oats are grown on the plain and in the more fertile parts of the plateaus, while olives, grapes, almonds, figs, and vegetables predominate farther south; tobacco is a specialty of the Lecce Plain.
The cold and wet climate meant that more oats and barley were grown than corn.
The cereal varieties that were commonly used (grown on five or more fields from each farming system) are presented as Table 4. Altogether 21 varieties were grown of barley, 15 of oats and eight of wheat.
If the oats are organic, does the manure with which they were grown come from organically fed animals?
Various crops were grown on the land, including wheat, oats, potatoes and carrots.
Principal crops include potatoes, barley, wheat, and oats; turnips are grown to feed livestock.
This allowed a greater amount of spring crop of oats to be grown, which provided fodder for horses.
Incidence and severity of take-all in the second test crops were, however, consistently, and significantly, smaller where oats had been grown 2 years before than where the other break crops had been grown.
