Oats: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global oats market sits at approximately USD 8.5 billion in 2025 (base year), built on a backbone of roughly 23 to 25 million metric tonnes of annual farm-gate production across Canada, the European Union, Russia, Australia, and the United States. The category is not growing particularly fast at the headline level, but the composition of that growth is accelerating in a direction that matters enormously for procurement teams: oat milk and plant-based beverage applications are expanding at roughly 8 to 10 percent CAGR while traditional breakfast cereal demand treads water at 2 to 3 percent. Feedstock pricing for No. 2 milling-grade oats has tracked in the USD 305 to 340 per metric tonne band through the first half of 2026, with Canadian cash oats setting the global reference price. > **Analyst Take.** The consensus 4.2 percent CAGR is directionally right but compositionally lazy; anyo

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