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If we ignore the fact that I narrowly escaped setting half of Hampshire alight, growing winter barley was one of the most satisfying and relaxing arable jobs I've done for many years - and much of it comes from the fact that we decided to take a break from aiming for a premium. In a malting barley crop, they would present a problem - no glyphosate allowed, and green wheat in the sample. But because it's feed barley, it had another dose of glyphosate and the stopwatch started for harvest. [Extracted from the article]