Buy Certified Organic Barley for Cover Crop, Brewing and Grain Production

Barley is a cereal grain derived from the annual grass Hordeum vulgare. Barley serves as a major animal feed crop, with smaller amounts used for malting (mostly for beer and certain distilled beverages) and in health food. It is used in soups, stews and barley bread in various countries, such as Scotland and in Africa and now quite frequently in the US. It's just good food.

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Sold out for now. Due to the drought supplies have dried up.

Robust is a 6 row barley with semi-smooth awns that is classified as a malting barley for making beer and other booze! Valuable as feed, excellent as a spring cover crop and grain for harvest. Produces the most biomass of any grain and out competes weeds very effectively. Thrives on well-drained fertile soil but tolerates drought and alkaline or heavy soils. Undersow with clover or a legume/grass mix for soil building.

It is medium in maturity and yield and has good lodging resistance and kernel plumpness. Robust is resistant to spot blotch.

We have this for now. 4/4/13

Conlon is a two-row, specialty malting barley released by North Dakota. It has demonstrated consistent yields with a long term IA average of 2 bushels better than the mean. Conlon is an early, shorter variety with good standability making it an attractive option for under-seeding.

The best seeding rate is the one that will achieve an optimum plant population, Peel says. The recommended plant population for barley is 1.25 million plants
per acre. A typical six-rowed variety like Robust will have 13,000 to 14,000 seeds per pound. To achieve the recommended population would require 89 to 93 lbs per acre. Seeding rates also must be adjusted for germination. If this seed lot had a 95 percent germination rate, the final seeding rate should be at 94 to 98 lb per acre or about two bushels per acre.

European brewers traditionally prefer the two-row barley because it malts best and has a higher starch/husk ratio than four or six-row barley. Brewers in the US traditionally prefer six-row barley because it is more economical to grow and has a higher concentration of enzymes needed to convert the starch in the grain into sugar and other fermentables.

$16.00

• Highest multi-year grain yield average (U of MN testing)
• Good option for underseeding
• Shorter variety, Excellent standing, strong lodging resistance
• Semi smooth awn, Short rachilla hairs
• 6 row barley, Approved for Malting
• 58 days to heading
• test weight 46.1 lbs per bushel
• protein 13.2%

High yield and medium maturity. Good lodging resistance and kernel plumpness. Six-rowed, semi-smooth awns, short rachilla hairs, and colorless aleurone.

• Maximum yield is always obtained from crops established in good conditions. Spring Barley does not behave like Winter Wheat, so seed rates used at early drilling should not be reduced to the same degree. Spring Barley variety choice for early drilling will depend on the ability of that variety to resist early disease pressure and overcome problems such as pest attack from slugs, leather jackets and wheat bulb fly.
• Late sown crops (after 1st April) will not tiller so freely, so seed rates should be increased by 10-15% to overcome this. Also, higher seed rates used with late sown crops should reduce some of the problems of late secondary tillering which can reduce grading (production of small grains).
• Rolling
  • The firming of seedbeds by rolling directly after drilling is standard practice. Care should be taken on land prone to capping by delaying rolling until after emergence to avoid problems which would otherwise delay emergence and reduce tillering.
• The optimum seeding rate for Arizona and other similar climates is about 120 lbs/acre for barley, 135 lbs/acre for wheat, and 150 lbs/acre for durum. The optimum seeding rate of barley is less than durum because barley produces more tillers and has more seeds per pound. The optimum seeding rate of wheat is less than durum because wheat has more seeds per pound than durum.
• Rates for Midwestern type climates is approximately 1.5 to 2.0 bushels per acre (65 to 90 pounds per acre). Determining the number of seeds per pound and germination rates provides a far more accurate seeding rate. The desired plant population is 1.25 to 1.30 million plants per acre, or approximately 30 plants per square foot.

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Certified seed is seed of a known variety produced under strict seed certification standards to maintain varietal purity. Seed lots must also meet specified standards for other crops, inert matter, weed seeds, and germination. Certified seed is also free of prohibited noxious weed seeds. All certified seed must pass field inspection, be conditioned by an approved seed conditioning plant, and then be sampled and pass laboratory testing before it can be sold as certified seed.