Spring barley N rates

[willy]

What do you do, I have always been 120 keg/ha, but never make malting and so I think I should either up it to 150 kgs and go for yield. What do you find works and what sort of yields are you getting.
mine is planet and we seem to be around 6.5 t/ha

 

[robbie]

Ive never seen much response over about 120kg/ha. Timing and season will have the biggest affect on grain N.

 

[Iben]

How far away from malting spec are you? And what is your target grain N?

 

[HarryB97]

Currently put 100kg/ha on and always make malting. All barley follows a grazed cover crop and has cattle muck on before the barley is drilled. Trying to improve my spring barley yield as the average is currently about 5 tonnes a hectare, have only been growing it for two years. The season will have more affect on yield than N.

 

[Wombat]

never seem able to get malting, always goes too high regardless of what i put on. Just cannot get the yields to drop the N level in the grain.

 

[Slant78]

I'm going into ley ground with spring barley. Hoping to use pig slurry onto top of ploughing instead of bagged fertiliser. How much slurry would you put on? It tested as 40 units per 1000 gal

 

[Flat 10]

What do you do, I have always been 120 keg/ha, but never make malting and so I think I should either up it to 150 kgs and go for yield. What do you find works and what sort of yields are you getting.
mine is planet and we seem to be around 6.5 t/ha

That’s a very respectable spring barley yield in the real world imo.

 

[Happy]

135kg/ha. Half spread on ploughing, half when tramlines showing.
Never a problem making malting, No grass in arable rotation though. Dung & compost applied every year but never ahead of spring barley
7.9t/ha last year but that was a one off. Average would be 7t/ha

 

[Iben]

135kg/ha. Half spread on ploughing, half when tramlines showing.
Never a problem making malting, No grass in arable rotation though. Dung & compost applied every year but never ahead of spring barley
7.9t/ha last year but that was a one off. Average would be 7t/ha

Do you think the compost provides much N?

 

[ajd132]

80-100kg, has provided us with yields of anything from 5t/ha up to 9.5t/ha!

 

[Happy]

Do you think the compost provides much N?

No. Decent amount of K though.
Using for its organic matter/ soil conditioning effect.

 

[7610 super q]

120 units acre here. Those that want to covert that to metric, crack on.

 

[willy]

That’s a very respectable spring barley yield in the real world imo.

Often find it’s not far off the winter barley, which normally droughts out too early. Spring barley some how always gets later rain before to critical. Seems that way anyjow

 

[Spencer]

80-100kg, has provided us with yields of anything from 5t/ha up to 9.5t/ha!

Bah it must be nice on easy east land

 

[Flat 10]

Often find it’s not far off the winter barley, which normally droughts out too early. Spring barley some how always gets later rain before to critical. Seems that way anyjow

Well I'd be pleased with 6.5t/ha spring with 100kgs N and slightly disappointed with 7.5t/ha at 150kgs N Winter. Our winter barley seems to get away before the drought here. Funny how the country changes in a relatively short distance.

 

[Wombat]

The only bits I managed to hit malting with 115kg of n last year were the bits that did 8.5-9 t/ha. AllI the bits that did 5.5 were 1.98 and 2.01 N

 

[jhorr30]

we are usually between 110 and 120 units an acre of N or 137kg to 150kg N per Ha
be pretty disappointed if we didn't get 8t ha at least of malting barley.
last harvest we would be between 9t ha and 11t ha for diablo and laureate for malting. mostly between 1.3 and 1.6 N
All the fields had been grazed after the previous harvest some having catch crop grass or kale over the winter.

 

[solo]

Planet drilled the last few years for feed.
120 units N and no muck
90units N + 10t/acre cattle yard muck fresh
90units N + 7t/acre 12month old well rotted fym

yields vary from 2.25 to 3t / acre on light Sandy loam soils
Muck gives more volume of straw and a bolder sample.

winter barley by comparison is yielding 2.5t/acre with no manure and 120 units

 

[Chae1]

We are 90-100 units total for malting barley.

 

[Hesstondriver]

120 units acre here. Those that want to covert that to metric, crack on.

Up until your post , kgs/ ha might as well have been in a foreign language - meaning less . But I can clearly visualise what 120 units actually is