How tall should maize be now?
Maize looking poor.
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holywell farmer
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Above hedge height
holywell farmer
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Isn't there some grown near corwen
holywell farmer
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Even the ad stuff ?
No not anymore the 2 farms that used to grow it have stopped. It was too expensive and only marginally successful i think we are just about too high up for maize
holywell farmer
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Still popular crop for farmers Ruthin, Denbigh, Holywell area plus mold, you can't grow Maize in the mountains
Agreed at the beginning.
Just walked the dogs , so walked out in some of it. Better than I thought , but dependant on soil type. Where there’s sandy patches it’s pretty much curled up.
Might be an early harvestMoisture retentive pig sh!t .
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It's all looking rather odd down here as a lot looks like little pine trees but I guess that's just the leaves trying hard to not lose too much moisture by curling up rather than getting further dehydrated?
We're Staffordshire and the crops are absolutley belting around here, nearly 7ft high now
Kingofgrass
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Similar to mine that is 6/7ft tall all tasseled some plants one cob some two,ours looks the best compared to others,there’s a lot of 2/3ft crops.ours was first to go in round here.iv brought 36acre of wc because the maize ain’t going to yield like a normal year.hoping for a short winter
Ali_Maxxum
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Maize looking well around here. Think a lot of people will be glad of it if later grass crops are poor!
Kingofgrass
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Mine was looking great two weeks ago then it’s tasseled it’s all on what the cobs are like now,all this 3ft tall stuff will tassel soon.there won’t be the bulk that everyone’s needs,going to a meeting on double cropping on Monday night.maize will be off early this year so will be able to get something else in
Around here we didn’t really have any rain for almost 2 month now. The calculated level is -240mm right now. The worst since 1976.
And it’s hot, so those who can irrigate have very nice crops if they have enough capacity.
I have about 550 acres with this and 200 with grass, that haven’t really been green for over a month now. Not really sure what we will feed the cows this winter if we don’t get rain soon.
holywell farmer
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Ever hauled maize
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
holywell farmer
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Good,