Crop Livestock Maize 
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.
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 15, 2023
Farmers Weekly Maize has done well in this year’s challenging weather conditions, utilising summer rain for excellent plant growth, reports Neil Groom, manager of forage specialists Grainseed. Spring was wet and maize drilling delayed in many areas well into May since field conditions were too wet to cultivate.
Farmers Weekly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Farmers Weekly Maize crops continue to mature steadily through this period of mild weather and warm nights. Plants have dried a lot this week, with many crops having leaves senescing from the base, reports Grainseed’s Neil Groom. Sugars in the leaf are moved within the plants to be stored as starch in the maize grains.
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. What, itinerant expert livestock herders too?
Agricultural Biodiversity
JULY 4, 2023
Maybe he’d like to have a look at the the Crop Trust’s endowment fund for SDG 2.5 ? Livestock also getting the genebank treatment in the US. Those farming project don’t have to involve orphan crops , but it wouldn’t hurt. Maize needs to be decolonized , not biofortified. Ok, do Genesys next.
Food Politics
JULY 12, 2024
This is because “corporate controlled global food chains offer a flawed recipe for food security, and are full of risks and vulnerabilities: the exposure of industrial commodity production to climate shocks; the diversion of valuable resources into ultraprocessed foods, livestock feed, and fuel; the standardization of diets around wheat, rice, and (..)
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