Maize height

[ollie989898]

How common is smut normally? What will it do to quality/fermentation?

I have never seen a lot of that about, I am not sure the UK gets quite the right weather for it to go rampant but maybe someone from overseas can correct me. I have seen the odd plant get it from time to time. Never even a small portion of a field.

I can't see it does quality any good since it turns the cob into a mutant mushroom. I don't know if it contains any funky toxins like the fungal diseases you get in cereals sometimes.

There are a couple of other diseases. The proper name for Northern leaf blight is helminthosporium, I had it in my head they were two separate diseases.

 

[SJM]

I have never seen a lot of that about, I am not sure the UK gets quite the right weather for it to go rampant but maybe someone from overseas can correct me. I have seen the odd plant get it from time to time. Never even a small portion of a field.

I can't see it does quality any good since it turns the cob into a mutant mushroom. I don't know if it contains any funky toxins like the fungal diseases you get in cereals sometimes.

There are a couple of other diseases. The proper name for Northern leaf blight is helminthosporium, I had it in my head they were two separate diseases.

Thanks, it's only in 1 variety on overlapped areas of headlands and very few plants, something we don't see often thankfully.

 

[ollie989898]

Thanks, it's only in 1 variety on overlapped areas of headlands and very few plants, something we don't see often thankfully.

Disease resistance/tolerance is definitely linked to variety, I could not tell you which varieties are best in any respect save anecdotal stuff I have seen. They are beginning to score for eyespot on the national maize list now though.

 

[Andy12345]

Was it one of mine more to the point!!?

Possibly if you oversee around the Ash area?

 

[ollie989898]

Possibly if you oversee around the Ash area?

Unfortunately not, I know who man who does though. Nicer soil that part of the world, too.

 

[Andy12345]

Unfortunately not, I know who man who does though. Nicer soil that part of the world, too.

Not to light , not to heavy ......managed well it will grow stuff!

 

[Jerry]

Cleared ours up today. Couple punctures did not help.

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[Wilberforce]

Exxtens, recon a week to 10 days away from harvest. Dull dank September did us no favours with maturity. Few fields cut locally but main harvest yet to kick off.

 

[Beef farmer]

Yoh Make sure you pick up that sheep fence before you forget

 

[Wilberforce]

Yoh Make sure you pick up that sheep fence before you forget

Always like to keep the contractors on their toes!

 

[ollie989898]

Getting on with it now.

Noticed a couple fields of Severus had virtually no disease compared to others.

Look out for Autens in future. Not ultra early but a huge tall crop.

 

[Beef farmer]

Getting on with it now.

Noticed a couple fields of Severus had virtually no disease compared to others.

Look out for Autens in future. Not ultra early but a huge tall crop.

What's so great about a tall crop? Apart from Willie waving?

 

[ollie989898]

What's so great about a tall crop? Apart from Willie waving?

Higher dry matter yield. Autens was something like 109% in the NIAB trials. Cob size on it was impressive, too. But not enough of it about to make a fair judgement yet.

 

[Beef farmer]

Higher dry matter yield. Autens was something like 109% in the NIAB trials. Cob size on it was impressive, too. But not enough of it about to make a fair judgement yet.

Id be looking for highest starch and dm yield. There was some maize cut near you last week, farmer left 2ft of stubble.

 

[ollie989898]

Id be looking for highest starch and dm yield. There was some maize cut near you last week, farmer left 2ft of stubble.

Autens will do all of that.

I don't understand why folk would elect to leave 2ft of stubble personally. It is not something I would recommend but I'm not folk's nutritionist.

 

[DairyGrazing]

Id be looking for highest starch and dm yield. There was some maize cut near you last week, farmer left 2ft of stubble.

NDF is top of my list.

 

[ollie989898]

NDF is top of my list.

You mean overall digestibility?

 

[frederick]

Autens will do all of that.

I don't understand why folk would elect to leave 2ft of stubble personally. It is not something I would recommend but I'm not folk's nutritionist.

If youve got 20tons acre in field and were budgeting on 15 then leaving 1 ton of rubbish in field makes sense.

Cows can only eat x tons dm of maize a day.

 

[Scholsey]

Autens will do all of that.

I don't understand why folk would elect to leave 2ft of stubble personally. It is not something I would recommend but I'm not folk's nutritionist.

I dont understand why people scalp maize fields and have mountains of maize they cant sheet properly and moan about starch levels being too low and having to feed more blend to make up for it.

 

[ollie989898]

If youve got 20tons acre in field and were budgeting on 15 then leaving 1 ton of rubbish in field makes sense.

Cows can only eat x tons dm of maize a day.

If the stalk is rubbish then why bother growing the crop in the first place? You can buy in starch in dry form for about £160/tonne from the docks at 90% DM. You can grow fibre from grass if needs be if the cob is the sole reason for growing it?

Around here, a tonne of maize could be worth £35/tonne, I'm not sure I would want to be leaving any of it in the field?