DD spring barley seed rate?

farmer dave136 said:

was wondering what people’s thoughts are on seed rates for spring barley I went at 400 seeds a meter last year and it looked well before the drought. Was thinking I might go as high as 440 this year the soils never as good to drill direct into in the spring. We’re on thin limestone soils

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neilo said:

If you think it ‘looked good before the drought’ at 400 seeds, why do you feel the need to go higher? Surely more plants would have been hit by the dry every bit as much? If we’d had a ‘normal’ year, presumably you’d have been happy enough with that crop that had ‘looked good’?

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