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Certified Organic Barley for Cover Crop and Grain Production

Lacey Barley is Classified as a malting variety by AMBA
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Conventional Lacey Barley - Non GMO - Untreated - Certified Seed
  • Certified Blue Tag
  • Very High Yeilding (12 bushels more than Robust)
  • Medium High
  • Strong straw
  • A Six row Barley
  • Approved for malting
  • 83% Germination
  • High yield and medium maturity.
  • Good lodging resistance and kernal plumpness.
  • Six-rowed, semi-smooth awns, short rachilla hairs, and colorless aleurone.
  • Classified as a malting variety by AMBA.
  • Resistant to spot blotch.
  • Developed from crosses involving Robust, Excel, and Stander. Released by Minnesota in 2000.
Organic Lacey Barley

High yield and medium maturity. Good lodging resistance and kernal plumpness. Six-rowed, semi-smooth awns, short rachilla hairs, and colorless aleurone.

  • Classified as a malting variety by AMBA
  • Resistant to spot blotch
  • Developed from crosses involving Robust, Excel, and Stander. Released by Minnesota in 2000
Certified Barley
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Organic Barley is already sold out for 2008
Drilling Time
  • Maximum yield is always obtained from crops established in good conditions. Spring Barley does not behave like Winter Wheat, so seed rates used at early drilling should not be reduced to the same degree. Spring Barley variety choice for early drilling will depend on the ability of that variety to resist early disease pressure and overcome problems such as pest attack from slugs, leather jackets and wheat bulb fly.
  • Late sown crops (after 1st April) will not tiller so freely, so seed rates should be increased by 10-15% to overcome this. Also, higher seed rates used with late sown crops should reduce some of the problems of late secondary tillering which can reduce grading (production of small grains).
  • Rolling
    • The firming of seedbeds by rolling directly after drilling is standard practice. Care should be taken on land prone to capping by delaying rolling until after emergence to avoid problems which would otherwise delay emergence and reduce tillering.
  • The optimum seeding rate for Arizona and other similar climates is about 120 lbs/acre for barley, 135 lbs/acre for wheat, and 150 lbs/acre for durum. The optimum seeding rate of barley is less than durum because barley produces more tillers and has more seeds per pound. The optimum seeding rate of wheat is less than durum because wheat has more seeds per pound than durum.
  • Rates for midwestern type climates is approximately 1.5 to 2.0 bushels per acre (65 to 90 pounds per acre). Determining the number of seeds per pound and germination rates provides a far more accurate seeding rate. The desired plant population is 1.25 to 1.30 million plants per acre, or approximately 30 plants per square foot.
*What is Certified Seed?

Certified seed is seed of a known variety produced under strict seed certification standards to maintain varietal purity. Seed lots must also meet specified standards for other crops, inert matter, weed seeds, and germination. Certified seed is also free of prohibited noxious weed seeds. All certified seed must pass field inspection, be conditioned by an approved seed conditioning plant, and then be sampled and pass laboratory testing before it can be sold as certified seed.

Classes of Certified Seed

There are four classes (generations) of certified seed. In order of genetic purity they are breeder, foundation, registered and certified seed.

Breeder seed is directly controlled by the originating plant breeder, sponsoring institution or firm which supplies the initial source and recurring increases of foundation seed. There are no certification standards for breeder seed.

Foundation seed is produced from breeder's seed or foundation seed produced under the control of the originator or sponsoring institution or licensee. Foundation seed is controlled by the originating plant owner or licensee.

Registered seed is produced from foundation or other approved seed stocks. This class of seed shall be of a quality suitable for the production of certified seed. This seed is usually, but not always, one generation from foundation seed.

Certified seed is produced from foundation, registered, certified, or other approved seed stocks. This seed is two generations from foundation seed. Certified seed can not be used to produce certified seed again without the approval of the state certification agency, which can approve production only under extreme conditions.

DIRT WORKS Links for Organic and Non-GMO Seed

Please include complete delivery address and phone number in your e-mail if you're writing for a shipping quote on large orders of forage and grain seed. If you don't see the variety you want, call. We have a long list of organic seed available that is too numerous to list. The varieties shown in the web site are those I beleive will fit most any requirement, but, I know there are nitch environments and special needs out there.

When ordering seed, plan as far ahead as possible and know as much about the seed you wish to buy before you order it. Each farm has different soil, climates and equipment constraints, and you know best what you need. If you don't, call us and we'll help you make a selection to to the best of our ability. Thanks, John

  • Some organic grains are in short supply this year due to a few emerging problems. The biofuels industry is competeing with land otherwise used for planting of food crops.
  • Emerging markets in Africa and Asia are putting s strain on supply and crop failures of already scarce crops are a problem too.
  • GMO crops are contaminating some farmer's lands and the corporations are tying them up in court preventing them from producing new seed. Download By Clicking Here
  • Whenever possible we are substituting non-GMO, untreated conventional seeds on our pages where you would ordinarily find organic seed.

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