never seen oats germinate with out moisture, planted 1500 acres of wheat & oats every fall.

I have planted fall food plots the last 3 years and got squat. Before that Ileays got the oats to grow. Times around here are not what they sed to be. I did not want to waste a lot of money on seed this spring so I just planted some milo. We got enough rain for it to come up and that was it. The deer hit it and pulled it all out by the roots. I was not kidding about it being so dry here that the leaves on trees are turning drown and falling off. A while back I dozed down over 4' in a draw and it was powder dry at the bottom. I am working on redoing some fence and you have to use a scoop to get the dirt out because it is so loose and dry. And when you stick you hand down in the bottom of the hole it is hot because there is no moisture to cool it off. This ain't the metromess here bobo, we don't get rain every few days.