The comparison of spring malt and fodder barley yields has shown that fodder cultivars react better to sprinkling irrigation and fertilisation, which is seen by slightly higher yields. A simplified economic analysis showed the profitability of high mineral ferilization, whereas sprinkling irrigation was not profitable even when applied with the highest NPK dose. It must have been due to an inadequate relation between the price of grain and the cost of production means. Sprinkling irrigation and fertilisation showed a clearly favourable effect on the quality of malt and fodder barley grain. Sprinkling-irrigated and well fertilized malt barley grain met the brewery standards. Similarly fodder barley grain from sprinkling-irrigated and triple-NPK-dose-fertilized plots was of high fodder quality.

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