Record prices and new players in the barley market are expected to result in an increase in barley planting in southern New South Wales according to the NSW Department of Primary Industries’ Dr Neil Fettell, supervisor of a GRDC project aimed at improving barley agronomy in south-eastern Australia. “In many ways barley is a forgotten crop in southern New South Wales,” Dr Fettell said. “However a world shortage of malting barley – and the fact that no grain can be substituted for it –... ...Read more »