our neighbour next door has for last year and this year let out most of his farm sum 1000 acres to a third party to grow maize. Well it seemed to go alright last year with the harvest and carting the many trailers on the public very busy roads? but this year the weather turning wet and staying wet while they try to harvest it? rumours are flying round about the anger between the land lord and the tenant growing the maize and the mess etc etc? Anyone care to comment on the whys maize is grown for other cattle or farm use or any comments please, does this happen where you are?
Maize Mess Madness
- Thread starter bluebell
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This is what happens when kids leave collage, and take trips to study agricultural practices in far flung countries..... North America, we ain't.
What happened to the falling over on the ground laughing smilie ?
What happened to the falling over on the ground laughing smilie ?farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Because during in a dry autumn it seems like a good idea for next year, way more profitable than other break crops... glad now though that nobody took me up on the 20acres I was offering out at the start of this year
We have a big AD plant in the area who hire land in about a 15 mile radius each year. Fortunately this year they chopped the fields near us a few weeks ago before we had any rain. if its a wet autumn the mud on the roads stretches for miles. The operation seemingly depends on around 20 Fastracs pulling Larrington trailers, driven by teenagers with a mobile phone glued to their ear.
The offer to farmers to rent their land looks good, and in a dry year probably is. In a wet year however you see fields full of waterlogged ruts that grow next to nothing the following year and take three years to recover fully.
The offer to farmers to rent their land looks good, and in a dry year probably is. In a wet year however you see fields full of waterlogged ruts that grow next to nothing the following year and take three years to recover fully.
- Location
- Ceredigion
And you expect weather like this . Best we stop growing spuds .they in tbe same boat .
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
A local contractor having a 'mare
And leaving the farmer a nightmare
Shughie McFee
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the bloody stuff isn't sown till end of may. It's a job finding decent weather to harvest crops in the height of summer in june & july, why folks would want to plant a crop that needs harvesting in October is beyond me. Another fad that's sweeping the country.....
ollie989898
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Only thing to do is run a chaser bin type thing and blow it into trailers on the road so they stay clean. Or use that elevator thing.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Serves him right
Hesston4860s
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- Location
- Nr Lincoln
There’s acres and acres of it grown round here for the 3 that I can think of 1 of which is dysons AD plants.
marco
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- Location
- tipperary, ireland
For every problem there is a solution.
Hardly a fad. We’ve grown maize for at least twenty years. No different to the sugar beet we used to grow. Usually August is a wetter month than October and there were plenty getting stuck with straw bales this year. There’s always some risk, same with potatoes, but what else do you suggest as a good paying spring break.
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- Dorset/Wiltshire
Have you seen the Horsch thing on tracks that you pull behind a tractor and it actually lifts a lorry trailer clear of the dirt so you can fill it and put it back on the road? The name escapes me!
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Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Horsch trials clever rival to the chaser bin - Farmers Weekly
The chaser bin is a firm favourite among arable farming big boys, but a clever concept from Horsch and Fliegl could prove an attractive alternative.
www.fwi.co.uk
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Not so simple with our hedges and soft verges.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Just ban the use of food crops in Ad plants
As france did
Simples
As france did
Simples
What, so we can grow more wheat and further depress prices. We should be happy for alternative uses for land and crops. How much OSR isn’t used for food?