I usually get good crops of wheat after maize, and the dairy farmer I grow for brings plenty of muck, so don’t think it takes any more than other crops. Also as it’s not planted until May, I can get a catch crop of stubble turnips and tack sheep in between barley and the maize.
Maize Mess Madness
- Thread starter bluebell
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ollie989898
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Ive known pretty pants land get offered for daft money for rent so someone could grow maize on it. Far more than you could from growing wheat on it.
Really ? Maize cheaper better feed and more reliable in the east .
No messes it up cut asap if you get frost , might be better for grain maize perhaps
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Also a good second use for those. They are mainly for seed corn and sweet corn harvest
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
ollie989898
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The love maize and It struck me the resultant silage must contain TB bacteria when fed?
holly smoke
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- Location
- between the sea and the moor
Looks like metcalfe farms outfit
Not to mention malting barley
3 but some other lads in hero mode carried on to do a 4th
In theory ensiling should kill bacteria? I wouldn't want to trust it 100% though
3loads. say 40t? A 10 hour day? Just say £40/hr man tractor and trailer (probably not enough but whatever) so you are at £10/t just in haulage. Then you have to chop the stuff and grow it. Sounds expensive.
- Location
- Kent
Farmer next door to me has already harvested his maze last month so why are other doing it now? Just curious
fieldfarmer
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Fad? I used to pull trailers for a contractor chopping with a big reco, 30 years ago ( made a mess on the roads sometimes then though) , wonder how long this fad will last.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Very large dairy farm a few miles away had 3 foragers and 31 yes 31 tractors and trailers hauling maize for at least 2 very long days the week before last!
fieldfarmer
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Someone will have a better answer but not all maize ripen at the same time, some of the later harvested crops will out yield the early harvested ones by a big margin.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Unless they stand on each other’s shoulders and pee whilst windmilling I can’t see maize silage being a risk unless they are scooping badger flattened maize off the floor, think it’s more that maize acts as a great autumn/winter food source causing a increased population and can act as a ‘line of crumbs’ for them to the silage pit/feed passage.
I doubt it would as what the badger eats would be on the floor and only what they push down would get foraged, even then can't see the pee getting on that, grass would be a lot more likely to get TB bacteria.
Maize similar to fodder beet would be a great feed for badgers encouraging population increase without any competition for food so less get pushed out, plus the sow's would be in great condition especially if they found the maize pit to rear a large litter.
Depends a lot on which part of the country your from. All crops ripen earlier if your in the south of the country. It also depends on variety and drilling date . Maize generally is later this year. It had a bad start with a very wet overcast June. Harvest here can be anytime from the third week in September .