Visual appearance of the plant Barley is a green plant, which grows up tall like a long grass. At the end of spring it forms a head of Barley which has tiny white flowers and very long whiskers. At the end of spring it dries off to a beautiful golden brown colour. Usage on Glenvar Barley has been grown on Glenvar since 1989. It has enabled an extension to our rotation and as a result reduced the disease burden of a purely wheat Lupin Rotation. Today on average 12% of Glenvar's land is planted into Barley and 3000T are often produced. A mixture of feed and malting Barley is produced on Glenvar.

End Users for the seed Malting Barley is typically used in the production of beer. Generally malting Barley produced is sold in the export market for the intended use of beer production. Feed Barley in contrast is as it sounds-an animal feed and is sold predominantly in the domestic market place for use as direct animal feed or manufactured into pellets.