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Barley as a feed for beef cattle¹

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

In years following short corn crops, certain small grains including barley, are popular substitutes for corn, especially during the summer and early fall months. This situation will very likely prevail in 1937. A considerable acreage of winter barley was seeded in Kansas and Missouri during the fall of 1936. If this barley comes through the winter in good shape and makes a reasonably satisfactory yield, it will help materially to overcome the effects of the shortage of feed grains on many farms. There is also a tendency in some states to grow barley instead of corn. It would seem, therefore, that barley may become more important in some sections where corn and oats previously have been regarded as standard cattle feeds.

On first thought, feeding barley to beef cattle appears to be a relatively simple matter. Yet barley has certain disadvantages which must be taken into consideration. For example, at the Idaho station Hickman and co-workers (2) fed 120 steers on alfalfa hay and barley. Of this number six steers or five per cent died from bloat.

¹ Contribution No. 125 from the Department of Animal Husbandry.