Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

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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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Robert has been researching, cataloguing, trialling and maintaining the great diversity of landraces that continue to be grown throughout the area, the last stronghold for locally adapted, genetically and organoleptically unique landraces of garden crops. The biggest loss has been with maize, mostly replaced with modern hybrid cultivars.

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