Winter barley is best used as grain feed of cereals and culture, so it contains little protein grain just 10- 11%, so it is grown to feed the brewing industry.Planting of winter barley is held in the fall and therefore cleaning takes place very early.It is possible to highlight their benefits:
- This enables the use of labor and machinery is more evenly.
- After harvesting the crop may be sown crops such as maize, millet, annual grasses, and other winter crops.
Winter barley is necessary to cultivate where winter warmer.Since winter barley has a low hardiness.Mainly engaged with him in the North Caucasus.In Russia, the crop area is only 0.46 million. Hectares.Compared with spring barley winter barley yields higher productivity.This is due to the fact that he can make good use of the spring soil moisture and time to ripen before the start of the dry south - easterly winds.The average yield of barley is 2.5 tons / ha.
Requirements for the environment
Next, I would like to tell you in detail about the requirements of the external environment.So as I said less hardy winter barley compared with winter wheat and winter rye.For it is already dangerous temperatures below -12 degrees.But, again, in comparison with them, he immediately after the onset of warm spring days on the growth starts to move.The growing season in winter barley is also shorter than the spring barley and winter wheat.And it gives you the opportunity to start cleaning in the early period (approximately end of May and beginning of June).After the harvest will be easy to get a second harvest - such as buckwheat.Winter barley shall submit a request to the soil as well as winter wheat.
Some points of norms and terms of sowing of winter barley.
Terms and seeding rate for winter barley are set for each region, and even to individual regions, asIt depends heavily on climatic and weather conditions, topography, soil well, and many other factors.When early autumn crops, they will have time much of the bush, and develop a strong leafy mass, but they are quickly and strongly affected by various diseases.But if late with the sowing of the plants do not have time for winter to save the required amount of nutrients, and die in the harsh conditions of winter.The duration of the fall growing season significantly affect the choice of the optimal period.Effect of autumn vegetation on the yield up to 65%, seed rate - 8%, terms of seeding - to 16%.Therefore it is necessary to closely monitor all stages of winter barley.The number of seeds per 1 square meter is about 500 - 550 pieces.
Harvesting.
This is the touching moment probably for each farmer.After this period of waiting for a few months or even a year.Well harvesting winter barley will go and single-phase and two-phase cleaning.For direct harvesting can begin in the grain moisture of about 16 - 18%.A separate cleaning carried out at a grain moisture of 20 - 35%.If you are late with cleaning, then the ear droops and becomes brittle, thus apply only single-phase method of harvesting.
