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Farmers Weekly Many farmers will be breathing a sigh of relief as the maizeharvest 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 harvestingmaize for AD plants and cattle customers.
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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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. Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) His harvest looks unique, too. Kotutwa Johnson planted the corn, and about a fifth actually sprouted.
Changing practices In the last 30 years, Albania has moved from growing exclusively local varieties of arable crops, specifically cereals and maize, to importing 80% of its seed. The great diversity of open-pollinated varieties of maize are now lost – bar a handful in mountainous regions. Yet, unique and important varieties survive.
As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,
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 of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. His harvest looks unique, too.
On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are increasingly likely , linked to a strongly meandering jet stream which can trigger concurrent extreme weather events.
Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds. a) teosinte and maize (Zea mays); b) chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum); c) common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); d) cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Our seeds are very resilient,” said Johnson.
If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.
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