Content related to the topic: barley

Specific weight (SW) is one of the longest-standing ways of judging cereal grain quality.

If you grow cereals or oilseed rape and use the harvested seed to establish a subsequent crop, it is called farm-saved seed (FSS)

Good quality seed is the starting point in cereal production.

Find out about the factors that affect seed health and the laboratory tests available.

Paul Gosling looks at the latest phase of the variety-trialling project.

Our Strategic Cereal Farms put cutting-edge research and innovation into practice on commercial farms around the UK.

From anthesis to xylem, discover the terms used to describe cereal growth.

Some quality characteristics, such as nitrogen concentration, specific weight and screenings, are highly heritable in barley.

Find out how to join the Recommended Lists (RL) Crop Committee for these crops.

Discover the optimum number and size of barley grains.

Discover what influences grain number in barley and the factors that affect grain fill.

Information on optimum crop height and how stem reserves contribute to grain fill.