Aha cool. I just sowed about 25 acres of barley today, myself. 10 or 15 more acres tomorrow and it will all be done for this year. We use a tractor and a seed drill to plant and a combine to harvest though, of course. ;P Hehe.

Will you grind this into flour, or do you have other plans?

In one of the barns here, we have some kind of ancient grain cleaning contraption that my great- or maybe even great-great-grandfather built. I have no idea how it works, but supposedly it's what they used to clean up the grain before running it through the old water mill to grind it into flour. If you would like, I will see if I can get someone to explain how it works and take some pictures, if you will be doing more of this in the coming years and would be interested in building a more efficient contraption for cleaning your grain.