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Maize Watch: Bumper maize yields for many

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Farmers Weekly Maize growers around the country are reporting very good yields this year. Contractors are chopping now in all regions. Yields are 44-49t/ha, which is very good compared with the long-term UK average of 40-42t/ha.

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Options for harvesting maize in wet conditions

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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Maize harvest begins with yields off to a promising start

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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Maize crops perform well in this year’s challenging weather

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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Farmer Focus: I don’t have the nerve to try maize in Scotland

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 Watch: Mild weather helps crops to mature steadily

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Farmers Weekly Maize crops continue to mature steadily through this period of mild weather and warm nights. Sugars in the leaf are moved within the plants to be stored as starch in the maize grains. Cobs can […] The post Maize Watch: Mild weather helps crops to mature steadily appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Maize grower relief at emergency seed treatment ruling

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly British maize growers can breathe a sigh of relief that three European seed treatments have been given the green light for UK use next year. UK regulators have granted emergency authorisations for: Korit – bird repellent Redigo M – fungicide Force ST – wireworm product.

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Farmer Focus: Wheat break is insurance for grass and maize

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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The Maize/Corn Kernels: Economic Importance, Uses, and By-Products

Agric4profits

MAY 21, 2024

Maize/Corn kernels are the seeds of the maize plant and are rich in carbohydrates, providing a significant source of energy for human consumption, livestock fee

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Nibbles: Forest seed collecting, Colombian maize, Türkiye & China genebanks, Community seedbank trifecta, Wheat breeding, Rice breeding, Bean INCREASE, WorldVeg regen, UK apples, Rangeland management

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

Whole bunch of new maize races collected in Colombia. How to collect forestry seeds. The Türkiye national genebank in the news. Lots of collecting there. Though maybe not as much as in this genebank in China. But small communities need genebanks too. Here’s an example from Ghana. And another from India.

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Nibbles: USDA germplasm plan, Millet CoP, Seed system resources, Kenyan sorghum Scottish crab apples, Heirloom maize, Yak cheese, Indian mangoes

Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Why Jimmy Red maize is worth saving, despite its faults. The Seed System Lab at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has lots of interesting resources on its new website. The latest on the Kenyan genebank’s sorghum work. Why wouldn’t Scotland have a crab apple genebank ? Yak cheese ? Yes, please.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Livestock also getting the genebank treatment in the US. They would help with malnutrition where maize biofortification hasn’t worked so well, for example. Maize needs to be decolonized , not biofortified. .” I wonder what it has to say about walnuts. Nut genebank gets an upgrade in Oregon. No, not walnuts, alas.

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Farmer Focus: Plenty of forage, but costs are still biting

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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Farmer Focus: Milk price is clearly unsustainable

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 31, 2023

It had also held my wife Anna’s “Maize Maze” […] The post Farmer Focus: Milk price is clearly unsustainable appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly I should know by now that in farming, every time you think you have things under control something appears to cause extra problems.

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Nibbles: VACS, FAO forgotten foods, African roots, Hopi corn, Adivasis rice, Sustainable farming, Llama history, Vicuña sweaters, Portuguese cattle, Mexico genebank, NZ genebank, Bat pollination, Eat This Newsletter, WEF

Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 26, 2024

For the Hopi, maize is an opportunity crop. More on the US push for opportunity crops. Oh look there’s a whole compendium on African opportunity crops from FAO. Many of them are roots and tubers. For the Adivasis, it’s rice. And more along the same lines from Odisha. Llamas were an opportunity for lots of people down the ages.

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Four UK crops you might be eating in 2035

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Crops like maize – the primary staple food for many of the world’s people, particularly in lower latitudes – are especially at risk; by the end of the century, it’s possible that maize production could drop by as much as 24%.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Demanda Colectiva , Mexico The Demanda Colectiva has fought to protect Mexico’s native maize varieties, which are threatened by uncontrolled cross-pollination from genetically modified corn. Their work is focused on five priority areas: labor and human rights, employment creation, living wages, social protection, and social dialogue.

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Maize Watch: Bumper maize yields for many

Options for harvesting maize in wet conditions

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Maize harvest begins with yields off to a promising start

Maize crops perform well in this year’s challenging weather

Farmer Focus: I don’t have the nerve to try maize in Scotland

Maize Watch: Mild weather helps crops to mature steadily

Maize grower relief at emergency seed treatment ruling

Farmer Focus: Wheat break is insurance for grass and maize

The Maize/Corn Kernels: Economic Importance, Uses, and By-Products

Nibbles: Forest seed collecting, Colombian maize, Türkiye & China genebanks, Community seedbank trifecta, Wheat breeding, Rice breeding, Bean INCREASE, WorldVeg regen, UK apples, Rangeland management

Nibbles: USDA germplasm plan, Millet CoP, Seed system resources, Kenyan sorghum Scottish crab apples, Heirloom maize, Yak cheese, Indian mangoes

Farmer Focus: Plenty of forage, but costs are still biting

Farmer Focus: Milk price is clearly unsustainable

Nibbles: VACS, FAO forgotten foods, African roots, Hopi corn, Adivasis rice, Sustainable farming, Llama history, Vicuña sweaters, Portuguese cattle, Mexico genebank, NZ genebank, Bat pollination, Eat This Newsletter, WEF

Four UK crops you might be eating in 2035

124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

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