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Options for harvesting maize in wet conditions

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions. This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave.

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Maize harvest begins with yields off to a promising start

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly As foragers start chopping maize crops across the South and East, reports are that yields are very good, ranging between 43 and 48t/ha. Excellent growth throughout the summer was due to July and August rainfall, according to Grainseed manager Neil Groom.

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Brainfood: Pacific plant use, Rapa Nui crops, E African crops, Cotton domestication, Fertile Crescent Neolithic, Dutch Neolithic, S Italy crops, Rice domestication, Maize domestication

Agricultural Biodiversity

Identification of breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis. Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. No word on the role of expert harvesters.

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Farmer Focus: Winter wheat direct-drilled into grass ley

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly We are currently drawing to the end of the maize; it will be a welcome end to this year’s harvest. Then we can fully focus on next year’s crops. Maize yields have varied, and it has taught us lessons for the future.

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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Civil Eats

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile.

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Four UK crops you might be eating in 2035

Sustainable Food Trust

Here, we look at some crops that might fare well as UK temperatures increase, and consider how these might fit into a more sustainable farming system. On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Here, we look at four potential candidates.

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