SilliamWhale
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My spring barley is struggling too. I think the mistake was ‘drilling on the green’. The cover crop had sucked all the moisture out and it’s hardly rained since drilling. Where the cover crop was thin the barley is acceptable. I’ve got spring triticale on another block and that is looking well …. cover crop sprayed off about 6 weeks prior to drilling. Both crops following wheat with straw baled.
I don't cover crop before spring barley.
Beans doesn't mind a cover crop but barley no. Even spring wheat may not mind it.
Best cover before barley is grazed by sheep and is turnips but then that can have an impact on your osr which is worth way more...
After a few years of trying (rather than just saying plough it) spring barley likes to go in not too deep, not too trashy and not too early.