Maize 2021

[devonboy]

and there are fin slurry robots that cant even navigate my cow shed .

 

[Sid]

Seen a lot of fields with tractors having been in and out of.
What would they be doing?
Foliar feed?

 

[Oscar]

Got a 1000acs of maize to put a late N product on, 20 ltrs / ha in 150 ltrs/ ha total . Did 100 acs a week ago at 6 ft high which was ok on big fields but not easy in 5 ac odd shaped paddocks . Luckily the rest is currently 4 ft high but with a showery week looks like next weekend before I can go so more like 5 ft I guess?

 

[dinderleat]

Seen a lot of fields with tractors having been in and out of.
What would they be doing?
Foliar feed?

Eyespot spray

 

[ollie989898]

Got a 1000acs of maize to put a late N product on, 20 ltrs / ha in 150 ltrs/ ha total . Did 100 acs a week ago at 6 ft high which was ok on big fields but not easy in 5 ac odd shaped paddocks . Luckily the rest is currently 4 ft high but with a showery week looks like next weekend before I can go so more like 5 ft I guess?

If I was that sold on nitrogen= better maize crops I would be putting on 100 units (+ sulphur + potash) at the two leaf stage....

 

[Oscar]

It had liquid N with pre em plus digestate pre drilling.
It's quite strange as one firm beginning with A which gets slated on here are poo pooing the idea but the firm beginning with F are promoting this . ( they each have a share of the acerage , 3600 acs maize this year)

 

[Ducati899]

Downpours and sunshine,maize is loving it

 

[Keep On]

 

[Ducati899]

Father stands at 5ft 8

 

[Durry cows]

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That looks well! What variety?

 

[Ducati899]

That looks well! What variety?

its a pioneer one,I’ll have to look up which one

 

[Dead Rabbits]

About 2/3 done I guess on silage. Not as good as it could have been I think the numbers of corn we planted weren’t that great. Going to do 20-22 ton/ac wet weight. Not super tall crop but very dense and large cobs. Should be very high quality. Started on Thursday at 29-32 DM and will end at about 38. It’s drying very quickly and the rust is accelerating it.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Should add we have a very simple nutrition plan on our corn. 8000 gallon/ acre manure till we run out with 100-120 units urea topdressed at about 30inches high. No starter fertilizer. What doesn’t get manure gets some p and k. Some off ground gets chicken litter. 1 herbicide pass no insecticides.

 

[In the pit]

I’ve never seen maize harvested in dusty conditions before

 

[som farmer]

I’ve never seen maize harvested in dusty conditions before

when we started growing it, early 70's, never did it in dusty weather, but definitely freeze your balls off weather, try re-sheeting a pit, where any moisture is ice, and trying to finish before xmas. It did get a lot better, pretty quick, but those early types required frost, to dry them down -- or so they told us.

 

[DairyGrazing]

Should add we have a very simple nutrition plan on our corn. 8000 gallon/ acre manure till we run out with 100-120 units urea topdressed at about 30inches high. No starter fertilizer. What doesn’t get manure gets some p and k. Some off ground gets chicken litter. 1 herbicide pass no insecticides.

Love doing maize in America. Chopped by end of August shank in 10000 gallons of slurry then seed a cover crop or wheat. Destroy the cover crop or cut the wheat in June and back to maize.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Ended up with 21.6 ton wet/acre on “my” 370 acres. Figure it will average .33 DM. Planted mid April finished harvesting August 11. Hopefully be getting our cereal rye and ryegrass in if we can catch some rain soon.

This would be the best crop we have grown in the 4 growing seasons I’ve been here.

 

[som farmer]

1st cut hybrid rye and vetches, 15 ton/ac
2nd cut maize drilled 6th june after the rye/vetch, which we cut 28th may.
maize looks good, so total yield/ac, should be close to 30ton/ac, maize is 10ft high, in places, son was looking for a wayward cow in there.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

1st cut hybrid rye and vetches, 15 ton/ac
2nd cut maize drilled 6th june after the rye/vetch, which we cut 28th may.
maize looks good, so total yield/ac, should be close to 30ton/ac, maize is 10ft high, in places, son was looking for a wayward cow in there.
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You could harvest that rye and no till straight behind it. Especially that late in a year planting it.

 

[som farmer]

You could harvest that rye and no till straight behind it. Especially that late in a year planting it.

not after the amount of slurry that went on, we actually had to wait for 3 days, to dry up, because we couldn't keep the plough in the ground, tractor wheels just spun ! We tried to min til, soil was to wet, and wouldn't 'lift' and crumble. The other side, rye had a light application of N, and we did put some P + K on the maize, so all in all, other than seed cost, 1 spray on maize, that's all we did.
P+K probably not crucial, but late sowing, give it the best chance to get going. Certainly a lot of maize around us, sown late apr/early may, doesn't look any better, some, a lot worse. It's double cropping, with a very tight 'window', to get each crop in on time, there is no short cut, do it right.