Barley - all articles

Yara's barley nutrition program can help you achieve excellent growth and maximize the yield and quality of your barley crop.

High barley yields come from achieving the correct ear numbers, maintaining a healthy, green leaf canopy, increasing grain numbers per ear and grain size. A balanced crop nutrition program is essential to help manage these components.

To achieve high barley yields, having established the correct canopy structure, it is important to maintain the green leaf area right through to the final grain filling period, capturing as much of the incident light as possible and converting it to yield.

Barley grain size is strongly influenced by plant nutrition particularly during the important grain filling period. Nitrogen, sulphur, boron, copper, manganese and zinc are particularly important.

The number of grains in each ear of barley depends on the number of fertile spikelets on the central stem of the ear. Crop management, particularly nutrition, can significantly influence the number of grains per ear.

Crop nutrition can have a great impact on the quality of the harvested barley and fertilizer applications should be planned to help achieve the highest value for the barley often through a combination of specifications.

Plant nutrients predominantly increase barley yield and quality, however, a well balanced fertilizer program will also increase crop health and help the plant protect itself from disease.

It is critical to understand barley fertilizer requirements in order to achieve the highest level of nutrient use efficiency which maximizes crop productivity while minimizing any environmental impact.

It is important to determine Thousand Grain Weight (TGW) in Barley to enable an accurate control of the seed when sowing to obtain the correct plant population target.

The number of leaves and shoots determines the size of the canopy and the final ear (spike) density at harvest. This ear density will be dependent on the total number of shoots produced and how many of these are fertile and survive.

Your barley crop requires the right nutrients, at the right time, to achieve the best results possible. Here is an overview of the role of nutrients by barley growth stages.