Take it you have a maize header ?
Combining grain maize
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Pebd99
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For the combine? No. Just to go slower with the vario full out I’m told.
Oh , send us some photos ,
Sandy
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Header for a spfh
Spencer
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I’ve combined maize with a standard header. It definitely works. Wouldn’t want to do a huge amount though.
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His was crimped at 30 odd % moisture.
Not dry.
The beauty of a maize header is you run on the trash.
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Only did some cover crop maize a few years ago as an experiment, it was surprising how much we got. Biggest issue was no heater on the combine, I was frozen.
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Yep did it in Glamorgan around Christmas years ago, no heater..... and your feet didnt move all day with hydro drive
was a proper stripper header tho, did a good job but was heavy. Needed extra rams to lift headerIf we could rely on a few weeks of real frost it'd be a really good crop.
Cut in the frost, dry, no soil damage.
Ideal.
warksfarmer
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Tried it about 12 years ago. Yield was extremely variable from literally nothing upto 5t/acre. Average was 3t/acre. Weed control extremely poor even though it had the full works. Putting it under plastic speeds up the whole process so you aren’t harvesting late in crap conditions but adds another cost.
You’ll struggle to get milling wheat quality after it because of mycotoxin levels.
And don’t underestimate the volume of trash afterwards. At the time we ended up discing then ploughing to try to get rid of it due to the mycotoxin risk but it didn’t work.
We put it on a heavier clay soil and in hindsight it would of been better on a loam soil.
The seed is very expensive and it mines your soil of nutrients.
It would have to be serious money to do it again and I think all these people jumped into it the last 2-3 years are going to have a shock when they realise what it’s doing to the soil through over working of it to grow it but also nutrient removal.
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Pebd99
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Poor pollination by the looks of it. Left to combine it won’t have much for bushel weight, not enough daylight hours in the days now to accumulate the required heat units to finish properly. I’d chop it for silage and save yourself major headaches
Fish
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Sorry, but there is absolutely no chance that will combine this year, the first frost ( which can’t be far a way) will kill that stone dead.
ollie989898
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You can just fit a picker header to a forager and cut it that way, meaning it is cut and ground up in one pass. Also foragers are a bit more handy in damp conditions compared to a combine.
Pebd99
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How long does it take from late milk stage to maturity? Was 3-4weeks late in getting it in the ground. Sown the 2nd of June. It also ran out of water around the end of July. How much quicker does it grow being planted under plastic?
@Devon James
Is that you on the farmers weekly with a strip till establishment system for maize?
Is that you on the farmers weekly with a strip till establishment system for maize?