# Maize and Oats

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/maize-and-oats/

[Maize](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/maize/) (commodity) and [Oats](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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.