Gain knowledge of how to grow barley for beer, including harvesting, threshing, and how to malt barley. Barley is a cereal grain, in the same botanical family (Poaceae) as wheat, maize ...

It can still thresh oats,barley and wheat. When used on the farms it took ten people to work it and threshing was a real community event. Combine harvesters now operate with only two people.

But this expectation is not realised on threshing any more than is the expectation that a barley with six rows of grain must out-crop one with two rows only. Most of the huskless oats now in ...