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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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.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly The maize is in the clamps. The yield monitor counted 730t freshweight off 12.14ha (30 acres), which is about 60t/ha. The best bits yielded more than 100t/ha at 34-36% dry matter. After 19 weeks in the ground, it is a massive yield for only 100kg/ha of purchased fertiliser.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our challenge has been harvesting it, whether finding a weather window to forage it, or deciding if it’s too wet to graze. They managed a few […] The post Farmer Focus: Wheat break is insurance for grass and maize appeared first on Farmers Weekly We kept the cows in a few times in late September, but it just didn’t stop growing.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly Updates for the 33-40cu m RX and 43-56cu m ZX forage wagons from Krone include hydraulic variable-speed drive to the pick-up, plus further refinements to the intake rotor and crop-slicing assemblies. The switch […] The post Shorter chop for Krone RX and ZX OptiGrass forage wagons appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Fliegl has revived the Cargos forage wagon range deemed surplus to requirements by Claas. There was little time for major design changes, with just six months separating the completion of the deal (September 2022) and the reopening of the production line (March 2023).

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Farmers Weekly New balers and baler-wrappers – mostly promising increased output and denser forage packing for fewer bales per field and storage stack – feature in this year’s Ultimate Guide to round balers.

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