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

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly Many farmers will be breathing a sigh of relief as the maize harvest draws to a close, after weeks of grappling with the wet weather. That’s the situation for HC Beales in Norfolk, a family-run farming business and contracting company, mostly harvesting maize for AD plants and cattle customers.

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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. This is allowing growers to replace their forage stocks and build up a carry […] The post Maize harvest begins with yields off to a promising start appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly New Holland’s CR11 might have hogged the Agritechnica headlines but neither it nor the John Deere X9 can hold a candle to the Nexat combine in terms of harvesting output. The gantry-style 1,100hp tractor unit is pictured paired with a 15.5m-wide,

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Itinerant expert harvesters spread agriculture into Anatolia. No word on the role of expert harvesters. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. Maize arrived in lowland South America in a pre-domesticated state, and stayed like that for a long time.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly I write this article envious of those further south harvesting maize. I’d love to feed maize silage and I’m sure the Jerseys would do well on the extra energy, but it would be a huge gamble in this area.

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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 Farmers Weekly It’s been a fair time for growing grass this summer and autumn.

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