Winter Barley for Spring Corn: P919 vs Saturn

0:02 We're gonna move on to winter barley. We've got two good winter barleys here they both went over winter quite well. Winter barley is probably one of the shortest season of any of the winter cereals. Rye may the elbow may head out slightly before these but these are going to mature faster as you can see.

0:25 We've got a bearded type, this is a new one that we're trying called Saturn. One of the knocks against winter barley up in our part of the world up here is that the winter hardiness is just a little unproven, a little unknown. So for that reason, guys, I think, have been a little hesitant to do much winter barley.

0:43 So we've been looking at it for the last several years. This is Saturn, this is P919 by the University of Nebraska breeding program and they both overwinter pretty well. We've been using 919 now for probably four or five years. It really has come through the winters pretty well. What you're going to see on

1:03 These when you plant them in the fall, you're gonna get some growth most likely. Everything above the ground is gonna kind of burn off during the winter and you're gonna think man I wasted my money, that was bad because it's all gone. But just give it a little time it'll green up and it'll start growing again whereas.

1:20 Like the rye and the triticale, the above-ground foliage never really burns off. In fact, sometimes a riot never really goes completely dormant. So the barley is not going to be nearly as aggressive as those other ones, but for that reason and because of that, this is less challenging to plant corn into, yes.

1:38 Doesn't have as much allelopathy effect. It's still good at controlling weeds. If you look down through here, there's a few weeds, but very when you come, if you can come over here and look at the alleyway here you can see quite a bit of mare's tail. But you look in between the rows.

2:00 And we hear occasional bad reports about planting corn into rye. Rye tends to be pretty aggressive, but we don't seem to hear those negative reports on barley. One of the drawbacks of this P919 is this little loose smut, and we tend to lose a few heads on that, but one.

2:59 As the rye or triticale, but the forage yields have been fairly impressive, no taller them and a lot of that is coming from the head. So the 9:19 is what we would recommend if you're wanting to graze, especially grades later in the season, have good forage quality. The Saturn is more of a feed barley or a

3:19 Grain barley and so the market there would be—I mean you can if you want to grow it all the way out for grain, you certainly can. In fact, there's an increasing number of feed lots and dairies that are trying to go completely GMO free. They're looking for barley for grain for their feeding operation.

3:37 Could be a potential market there but probably the main reason that we would use this would just simply be as a ball planted cover crop for spring planted corn where the grower does not want the challenge of rye because if you get a wet spell and you can't get it spray that.

3:54 Ride it can go from 8 inches fall to 3 feet tall in a matter. He's not gonna get away from you, but from that respect we're looking at it as a cover crop ahead of corn a lot, and one advantage of barley grain is it does have a reputation for imparting a very good flavor to me.

4:18 Early fed grain or barley pet meat as a is in demand in circulation.