barley

Rozel Shrestha, 12, set fire to a tiny effigy made of straw and barley, representing his missing father, at Kathmandu's Pashupati temple on the banks of the Bagmati river.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

But the federal government didn’t even recognize American single malt—whiskey made from 100% malted barley produced at one U.S. distillery—as a spirits category until 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Williamson's farm, on which he grows a variety of crops including wheat, barley, and oats, has been "fortunate," as like many arable farms, they bought most of the fertiliser needed for this season last year.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

The sweet and soft nut plays a large role in traditional mountain cooking and tradition because in places where you couldn’t grow wheat or barley, there were still chestnut trees.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

Cluny watched as the fox pretended to drink as much of the barley wine as the rat captains.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In comparison with wheat very little seareh has been made for dry-farm barleys, and, naturally, the list of tested varieties is very small.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe

The barleys are chiefly used for human food with or without rice.

From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott

A long series of natural hybrids of wheat, barley, and oats are also described and discussed by Rimpau, as well as artificial crosses—some very remarkable—of barleys, but they must be passed over here.

From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward