Maize Mess Madness

[Shughie McFee]

Hardly a fad. We’ve grown maize for at least twenty years. No different to the sugar beet we used to grow. Usually August is a wetter month than October and there were plenty getting stuck with straw bales this year. There’s always some risk, same with potatoes, but what else do you suggest as a good paying spring break.

it's a fad. folks ought to be ashamed of themselves.

 

[DRC]

Most of the maize I've seen inna ready , what's the rush

With it being a contractor job to harvest it, they are all worried about being last in the queue .

 

[DRC]

it's a fad. folks ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Why.? It’s a brilliant feed for dairy cows.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

the bloody stuff isn't sown till end of may. It's a job finding decent weather to harvest crops in the height of summer in june & july, why folks would want to plant a crop that needs harvesting in October is beyond me. Another fad that's sweeping the country.....

When do you harvest spuds and fodder beet and sugar beet ?

 

[bobk]

With it being a contractor job to harvest it, they are all worried about being last in the queue .

I always thought you need a frost on maize before you cut it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Why.? It’s a brilliant feed for dairy cows.

Best feed you can get , you cant predict freak weather

 

[DRC]

I always thought you need a frost on maize before you cut it

Not these days. Did our 100 acres last week thankfully. I always chose early maturing varieties

 

[yellow belly]

four cuts of grass will be much better

 

[sticky]

In 2012 a local contractor bought a large elevator to load trailers on hard standing for the road. Only thing was it was an expensive piece of kit and only got used that one year and they have since given up.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

four cuts of grass will be much better

How much starch in grass ?

 

[76masseyman]

There’s acres and acres of it grown round here for the 3 that I can think of 1 of which is dysons AD plants.

Have Dyson still got the converted beet loader for tipping the trailers into, then straight into their own trucks.

 

[le bon paysan]

Just ban the use of food crops in Ad plants
As france did
Simples

What?

 

[Bury the Trash]

four cuts of grass will be much better

Yes it is as long as its cut at the right time and made well energy wise.
Protein yield will be definitely higher as well.

And you dont have to sow it every year but of course you cant spread so much dung and slurry as under maize.

 

[dragonfly]

The trouble is, roads are left muddy (understatement) by the contractors, who have a " its not my job to clean" attitude!
A lady and car ended up in a deep ditch, just down the road from me!
Farming receives enough bad press.
These maize contractors are not doing us any favours!

 

[Scholsey]

The trouble is, roads are left muddy (understatement) by the contractors, who have a " its not my job to clean" attitude!
A lady and car ended up in a deep ditch, just down the road from me!
Farming receives enough bad press.
These maize contractors are not doing us any favours!

And what’s the farmer doing who phoned said contractor, farmer who’s idea it was to plant maize in a field with a dodgy gateway straight out onto a busy country road? If he hasn’t got a road brush use a bucket and shovel!

 

[Daddy Pig]

spent a day last week hauling maize for a large local farming co. 48 mile round trip, approx. half on main roads and half on lanes, loads of mud on roads, loads of chewed up verges and loads of pee'd of car drivers. who needs the BBC for negative pr.

 

[Tarw Coch]

With it being a contractor job to harvest it, they are all worried about being last in the queue .

Sometimes that’s the best place to be, I’ve been known to wait until the end and get the maize in in better conditions than those who have gone before.

 

[Tarw Coch]

And what’s the farmer doing who phoned said contractor, farmer who’s idea it was to plant maize in a field with a dodgy gateway straight out onto a busy country road? If he hasn’t got a road brush use a bucket and shovel!

Felt sorry for my neighbour today, trying to keep the road clean, plenty of motorists no doubt cussing him but none of them prepared to slow down or give him a bit of room to do the job, there can be very few fields you can get out of this year without making a mess.

 

[Kidds]

four cuts of grass will be much better

Not many got three cuts around here last year and only first cut was worth doing.
Maize did ok.

Puzzles me why people would let their land out for maize though, takes a awful lot out of the land.

 

[Scholsey]

Not many got three cuts around here last year and only first cut was worth doing.
Maize did ok.

Puzzles me why people would let their land out for maize though, takes a awful lot out of the land.

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