Winter Barley - N timing

[Fuzzy]

It is my first year growing winter barley (variety carat), what timing do you use for N application. How many splits and what rates?

 

[farmer phil]

My agronomist reckons it should all be on by end of March. I usually split in two.

 

[horizontal]

50kg late February to mid march. Remainder at gs 30-31. Total 160-175kg maybe, depending on SNS etc

 

[franklin]

I'd like some on now. But will go whenever I can travel. 150kg total for me, split 50/50.. Whilst the old boys tell me that flat barley makes a farmer, in reality with a big combine it is a damned disaster.

 

[Andy6930]

We always get told 100kg as soon as you can get on land in good conditions and another 50kg or so 6-8 weeks later, hopefully be on in the next fortnight!

 

[Brisel]

Barley is all about creating & keeping tillers. For normal feed varieties I do 3 splits of about 60 kg of N with the first one around now, second at GS30 & the rest soon after.

Syngenta prefer you to put a bigger proportion of the N on before GS 30 for their hybrid barleys. I'm putting 80 kg of N on as soon as I can travel.

 

[part timer]

Anybody any recommendations of a compound to use on the 1st split? Straw all removed on last crop and low indices.

 

[shakerator]

. Whilst the old boys tell me that flat barley makes a farmer, .

the "old boys" could pish their fert up the wall, and red diesel was about the price of diluted ribena