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Livestock => Other => Topic started by: Scotsdumpy on November 15, 2013, 07:06:27 am

Title: growing sprouting barley as fodder
Post by: Scotsdumpy on November 15, 2013, 07:06:27 am

Hi  has anyone any experience of growing sprouting barley as a fodder crop , ie costings and procedures including start up and running costs .saw a farmer on countryfile in northern Ireland doing this.

Title: Re: growing sprouting barley as fodder
Post by: honeyend on November 15, 2013, 06:40:59 pm

I managed to buy a second hand Aquacrop unit, very simple you just soak the barley one day ahead before putting in the trays, but I have not got round to using in it as I do not have cattle at the moment.

Title: Re: growing sprouting barley as fodder
Post by: Ina on November 16, 2013, 06:26:08 am

We fed sprouting barley on a goat farm where I worked in the 80s (in France). We just used large buckets with holes in them... No costs involved whatsoever!