I'm thinking about planting 6 acres of feed barley this Spring, for feeding out steers next Winter. Is there much difference drilling barley seed vs. oats? I know I will need to calibrate the drill to the different seed. Seed supplier recommends 2 to 2.5 bushel per acre, sound about right? Roughly, what type of yield per acre can I expect? Central MN, heavy black soil. I would be windrowing it and combining with a #80 IH combine.
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farmerwithmutt
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I did the same but direct cut with 80 . Rate sounds right if I remember I left the drill down on turns where it was thick the yield was lower
I used to seed oats at 3 bpa, went to barley for various reasons, seeding at 1.5 bpa. I think your supplier wants to sell extra seed. I always used barley as a nurse crop for alfalfa, and liked the fact that the stand was thinner than oats, so sunlight could reach the ground to help the alfalfa. Barley has 92% of the feed value of corn, and I used it for pigs and steers, one time even using it full feed for steers when corn was short. I went to full feed in stages, and backed off the same way when I had new corn available. This was with the DoBoy pellet program...no other feedstuffs. Typical good yield was about 60 bpa. Heavy soil- Meeker County. The straw is less absorbent than oat straw, but I chopped the straw into the barn, so it worked well for the dairy cows. Long straw, the cows kicked too much into the gutter. Almost no oats raised here now, just barley.
Bruce from Can.
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The later you plant the more seed you plant per acre. 1.5 bu per acre in early April /2.5 for late May. You should get back 1 - 1.5 ton per acre. A lot will depend on how much rain you get , and how much fert. you put on. Barley will not tolerate wet ground, high well drained land is best.
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