gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Just seen on FB that a large farmer/ contractor has started cutting maize in Somerset this week.
Anyone else seen any cut yet?
Anyone else seen any cut yet?
Maize harvest 2018
- Thread starter gone up the hill
- Start date
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
Some cut a couple of weeks ago here, wasn't ever going to make a good crop so they decided to get it out of the way, probably aided by the fact that the field is in very good view of a reasonably busy road and was being talked about! Crop was waist height.
Slippery Slope
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Several going now. Looked in at mine end of last week and was surprised by how the cobs have ripened recently and that's on top of the hills at 830ft.
- Location
- North Norfolk
Planning to start on Monday. Not tall plants, but good cobs so we should have decent starch levels even if the yield is down.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Ours is 3/4 weeks off planted 28th may but caught up well
- Location
- North Devon
Maize is dire on dry ground.
Will harvest next week but plants have sprouted 3 empty cobs and plants are just above knee high.
As can see from photo. Smut also a problem this year. Only second time we’ve seen it here.
Moors Farmer
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- Location
- Somerset
Yep - I've seen that in mine this year - again not seen that for quite a few years.
Early flowering?
Early flowering?
- Location
- North Norfolk
Plenty of heat units this year. As posted in another thread:
First field in the clamp, Emmerson drilled 24 April yielded 15.3 tonnes/acre at 36% dry matter (average of 6 oven dried samples). Hard to believe the dry matter for first week of Sept, but oven dried at 105°C to constant weight, 6 reps from 33.77 to 37.6%
First field in the clamp, Emmerson drilled 24 April yielded 15.3 tonnes/acre at 36% dry matter (average of 6 oven dried samples). Hard to believe the dry matter for first week of Sept, but oven dried at 105°C to constant weight, 6 reps from 33.77 to 37.6%
- Location
- South West
Who killed the Smurf in the 2nd photo???????
Sparkymark
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My Glory cobs are turning rock hard, struggle to get a nail imprint. Plants still very green yet. Its very early for Lancashire, it was cut 29th October last year.
stablegirl
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- Location
- North
I'd call them a week off, are they stood up straight or starting to fall away from the plant?
stablegirl
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- Location
- North
- Location
- North Norfolk
We have a Griffith Elder single axle weighbridge.
I put it in the oven in the evening, weigh it early morning and check weigh at lunch time. We use an old domestic fan oven fitted with a PID temperature controller with a thermocouple sensor. One thing that we are looking at is an air fryer for drying.
I put it in the oven in the evening, weigh it early morning and check weigh at lunch time. We use an old domestic fan oven fitted with a PID temperature controller with a thermocouple sensor. One thing that we are looking at is an air fryer for drying.
That's fit to cut now is it not?
Kingofgrass
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Good crop. @kingofmaize
Kingofgrass
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Glory
MorningGlory
Kingofgrass
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Morning glory with a new trailer
John boy
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- Location
- North wales
How can you get it growing that high up?