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. 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

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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Maize Harvest Harvesting Harvester 211

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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Maize Forage Harvest Harvesting 192

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Itinerant expert harvesters spread agriculture into Anatolia. What, itinerant expert livestock herders too? No word on the role of expert harvesters. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. That’s a long way for expert harvesters to go.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 31, 2023

Poor weather at the end of July was holding off harvest and pushing all the field work into a tighter and tighter window. It had also held my wife Anna’s “Maize Maze” […] The post Farmer Focus: Milk price is clearly unsustainable appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Maize Harvest Harvesting Harvester 251

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

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.

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