barley
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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
A barley risotto studded with dried autumn mushrooms follows, Finland’s breadbasket turned into comfort.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Coeliac disease is caused by a reaction of the immune system to gluten – a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
U.S. barley prices edged up on robust demand for Argentinian supplies, while the rice index rose 1.8% on firmer demand for fragrant varieties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Egypt’s wheat and barley never reached the Mediterranean climate at the Cape of Good Hope until European colonists brought them in 1652, and the Khoisan never developed agriculture.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
This conclusion is not entirely in agreement with the results which have been obtained by others upon foreign beers, in the preparation of which low protein barleys have been used.
From A Study Of American Beers and Ales by L. M. Tolman
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
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
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