Combining grain maize
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- Wiltshire
You need to speak to Tim Farthing he does a lot based in north Wiltshire. Crimped Maize uk on Facebook. Don’t deal with him myself but know he does a fair bit.
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ollie989898
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One of my clients did crimped maize and still does. It will very much depend on how many customers you have around the area. It is a good feed but you will need a crimper and a silage pit or building to put it in. It will keep quite happily once treated, very little dust.
Combine on tracks with a smallish header is useful.
Combine on tracks with a smallish header is useful.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Quiet a few acre done here but mainly by dairies for thier own use, problem comes dealing with the trash left behind. It’s a lot of material to incorporate back into the soil. But maybe if fences for sheep it would be a good option to let them chew it down. Dried it’s a very saleable product. We’ve grown it here numerous times but for me it was ready at the wrong time. Often we’d be cutting it with snow on the ground and the stalks were frozen and shredded the tires.
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Grown 20 acre of it this year for combining. Definitely a month from combining yet.
Whereabouts are you.
Neighbour cut his last week here in Kent.
It was definitely done pretty sharp, but it is in the clamp and drilled wheat after.
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
5 miles from Aberdeen. Kws said it wouldn’t grow so this far up. Late sown the 2nd of June doesn’t help.
They are tentatively starting combining maize here in lower half of france , I'd suggest you could forget it until xmas
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Would you be able to forage it?
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Nearest header for a spfh would probably be 200 miles away. I do have a header for a Jaguar 75 but no Jaguar 75
So why grow itNearest header for a spfh would probably be 200 miles away. I do have a header for a Jaguar 75 but no Jaguar 75
- Location
- S.E
Looking at cutting our grain maize in the next few days hopefully. Will be dried and sold like any other grain
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
For combining it. Didn’t plant it to chop it.So why grow it
TBF theirs is all irrigated .
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Brave! But hey fortune favours the brave! Is it ready to forage? That was always the reason for it not growing north was that the cobs wouldn’t ripen sufficiently.
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
They didn’t think it would be warm enough to get a cob or even grow much. Cob is fully formed just now but slow to ripen now. It’s a fertile field it’s in. About 7 feet tall just now.
- Location
- Limousin, France
Some around here have it crimped and put straight in to agbags. All done in 1.
Sandy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Their could be 1 up Elgin Inverness directionNearest header for a spfh would probably be 200 miles away. I do have a header for a Jaguar 75 but no Jaguar 75
Pebd99
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
A Jaguar 75 or a header for a spfh? I’m still planning on combining it tho.