According to the Feed Table link below, the Crude Fibre content of barley is 5%. Two-row and six-row barley grain has 6% CF.
It measures 18 feet.
Two-row barley has two rows of kernels lined up vertically on the head of the plant, while six-row has six. Even though two-row barley has larger kernels, the six-row typically yields more at harvest.
barley in cubic meter
Most beers contain barley. Other than that, not much. Barley water, obviously, You can get barley grits and barley flour, so also barley breads. Pretty uncommon though. Pearl barley is used a lot in soups, but mostly only in home cooking, not so much in canned soup.
Purple.
Two-row barley has two rows of kernels lined up vertically on the head of the plant, while six-row has six. Even though two-row barley has larger kernels, the six-row typically yields more at harvest.
1/2 cup
Barley, ash and porridge. They ate so much barley they were nicknamed the barley men.
because the grain was measured out according to standard weights
The Wind That Shakes the Barley grossed $25,670,174 worldwide.
"...six measures..." also translates to "...six ephahs...". Trying to figure out how much that is in modern terms is difficult at best. Since there is variation between US and British measurement systems, I was looking for one consistent conversion measurement and chose liters. However, there are at least six different amounts given for a ephah: 7.7 l, 22 l, 33 l, 35 l, 36.44 l, and 40.32 l. These translate to somewhere between 1.31 and 6.87 bushels (US). Assuming barley in those times had approximately the same test weight, that means Ruth carried back somewhere between 63 and 330 pounds. (See the Bible -- Book of Ruth, Ch. 3, Vs. 15-17)Another perspective:If your question refers to Ruth 3, there is no way to know for certain. "Measure" in Ruth 3:15 is a verb, not a noun, so what Ruth was given to carry was "six measured amounts;" probably six armfuls. ("Ephah" in the Modern or New King James is misleading; the word for an ephah is not present in Ruth 3.)