Spring barley gross margin

[Spencer]

140kg here for feed

 

[Fubar]

140kg here for feed

I've gone old fashioned 3 cwt/ acre = 130kg N/ ha

 

[ollie989898]

SB will double in height from flag leaf emerged..

I would say it's ability to compensate is greater than that if everything else is in it's favour. Barley is more like some kind of soil parasite than a crop. Seems to find nutrients and growth from anything.

 

[Bossfarmer]

would i be right in saying dungs what u want with sb more so than wheat, as the wheat roots go straight down wheras the sb roots fan out more trying to find nutrients?

 

[ollie989898]

would i be right in saying dungs what u want with sb more so than wheat, as the wheat roots go straight down wheras the sb roots fan out more trying to find nutrients?

I would say barley is better at scavenging nutrients than wheat. I've heard someone say that wheat is a lazy feeder but I don't know if this is technically true or not. Crop roots go much deeper than we realise if they are able to.

 

[teslacoils]

If you fancy it, the govt will throw you another £90/ac to grow spring barley if you can live with Eagle for BLWs and only really post-em graminicides for wild oats.

 

[Spencer]

I would say it's ability to compensate is greater than that if everything else is in it's favour. Barley is more like some kind of soil parasite than a crop. Seems to find nutrients and growth from anything.

You do like to give SB a bad name..

 

[ollie989898]

You do like to give SB a bad name..

Not at all, I'm talking about it's growth habit and partly domesticated nature. It's ok as a crop and you can make good money from it, but I always detested spending shed loads of money on it because it seemed so weather dependent.

 

[Bossfarmer]

I would say barley is better at scavenging nutrients than wheat. I've heard someone say that wheat is a lazy feeder but I don't it this is technically true or not. Crop roots go much deeper than we realise if they are able to.

Can anyone else shed some light on this?

 

[neilo]

How much N do most folks apply to S barley (No muck applied.)

Gone with 120 kg/ha of N on mid-April drilled Splendor (feed) here, but all after grazed root crops and will get a tickle of foliar product with each sprayer pass too. Not sure whether I might have overdone it on the two fields following grazed beet, which carried a lot of sheep (& their muck). Worked well last year, so attempting the same… if it rains.