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Maize and Oats

Their prices have moved together.

Maize (commodity) and Oats (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: competing feed grain

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Maize is the benchmark feed grain, and oats are fed to livestock when they are cheap relative to it. The index follows maize loosely: monthly moves correlate at 0.33 and yearly moves at 0.57, because oats also respond to their own small harvests.

  • 0.33 monthly change correlation
  • 0.57 12-month change correlation
  • 0.71 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.