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What
is barley?
Barley is a cereal
grain. In botanical terms, barley belongs to the Poacea family, the Triticae tribe
and the Hordeum genus. All cultivated barley belongs to the Hordeum vulgare L.
genus.
Where
is barley grown in the US?
Barley is a short-season, early maturing crop grown commercially in
both irrigated and in dry land environments. Because this grain adapts
well to different types of environments, it is grown in many regions
throughout the United States. In fact 27 states in the US grow barley
to some extent. Major producing states, in descending order of
production, include North Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Colorado,
Wyoming, Virginia, Minnesota, Maryland, South Dakota, Oregon and Utah.
Barley is chiefly taken after turnips, sometimes after peas and beans, but rarely by bad farmers either after wheat or oats, unless under special circumstances. When sown after turnips it is generally taken with one furrow, which is given as fast as the turnips are consumed, the ground thus receiving much benefit from the spring frosts. But often two, or more furrows are necessary for the fields last consumed, because when a spring drought sets in, the surface, from being poached by the removal or consumption of the crop, gets so hardened as to render a greater quantity of ploughing, harrowing and rolling necessary than would otherwise be called for. When sown after beans and peas, one winter and one spring ploughing are usually bestowed: but when after wheat or oats, three ploughings are necessary, so that the ground may be put in proper condition. These operations are very ticklish in a wet and backward season, and rarely in that case is the grower paid for the expense of his labor. Where land is in such a situation as to require three ploughings before it can be seeded with barley, it is better to summer-fallow it at once than to run the risks which seldom fail to accompany a quantity of spring labor. If the weather be dry, moisture is lost during the different processes, and an imperfect braird necessarily follows; if it be wet the benefit of ploughing is lost, and all the evils of a wet seed time are sustained by the future crop. The quantity sown is different in different cases, according to the quality of the soil and other circumstances. Upon very rich lands eight pecks per acre [11 t/kmē] are sometimes sown; twelve [16 t/kmē] is very common, and upon poor land more is sometimes given. By good judges a quantity of seed is sown sufficient to ensure a full crop, without depending on its sending out offsets; indeed, where that is done few offsets are produced, the crop grows and ripens equally, and the grain is uniformly good.
Source of information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley
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