Combining Maize

[Western promise]

Asking about combining maize ! As there seems to be more people growing maize in the demise of OSR with flea beetle, what are people doing about combining the crop? Also there are some early varieties now available for earlier harvest.Do they use special headers or something like this https://flexxifinger.com/Farm-Machinery/Corn-Harvest-Pans ?

 

[D14]

Asking about combining maize ! As there seems to be more people growing maize in the demise of OSR with flea beetle, what are people doing about combining the crop? Also there are some early varieties now available for earlier harvest.Do they use special headers or something like this https://flexxifinger.com/Farm-Machinery/Corn-Harvest-Pans ?

You can use a normal header but its better with a maize header if doing a big acreage. I wouldn't rush into it though as its massively oversupplied. I've a couple of friends who've struggled the last 3 years selling it. These are arable boys with no use for it themselves so they end up taking a lower price. It generally sits at about £30/t less than the feed wheat price. Sunshine day lengths are critical which can mean a late harvest. If you follow it with wheat you will nodobut have high mycotoxin levels meaning its no good for milling and the yield varies massively from 0 to up to 6t/acre. Headlands don't yield very well at all they tell me.
Both are becoming unexcited with the crop and with the current downturn in meat requirement so the buyers aren't there for it, they are both knocking it on the head.

 

[Exfarmer]

If you are doing any acreage you need a snapper header. The stalks are pretty meaty to feed through the machine

 

[Western promise]

You can use a normal header but its better with a maize header if doing a big acreage. I wouldn't rush into it though as its massively oversupplied. I've a couple of friends who've struggled the last 3 years selling it. These are arable boys with no use for it themselves so they end up taking a lower price. It generally sits at about £30/t less than the feed wheat price. Sunshine day lengths are critical which can mean a late harvest. If you follow it with wheat you will nodobut have high mycotoxin levels meaning its no good for milling and the yield varies massively from 0 to up to 6t/acre. Headlands don't yield very well at all they tell me.
Both are becoming unexcited with the crop and with the current downturn in meat requirement so the buyers aren't there for it, they are both knocking it on the head.

If we are loosing OSR & Maize is going out ,what is the next big break crop coming to the UK?

 

[RAF]

Beans

 

[Lewis821]

Soya

 

[Digester Man]

Cannabis