Maize 2021 varieties

Sheebadog said:
Didn’t vary the seed rates by any chance?

Looking for a very low index, fast developing variety to sow after wbarley. Any suggestions?
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:oops: No I didn’t, it’s a simple variety trial. Planting them is my annual task, I just want to get them done asap so I can get back at the long list of other jobs so suggesting more complication isn’t something I’ll do! I knew you would ask!!!

Maize has never been a crop that overly interested me for some reason. I’ve just seen too many messers at it over the years that I’m a bit traumatised I’d say.
I love cereals and combinable crops, I like beet and spuds but maize just doesn’t excite me for some reason.

I do appreciate that in hot climates, maize is the absolute business.
 
Crops said:
:oops: No I didn’t, it’s a simple variety trial. Planting them is my annual task, I just want to get them done asap so I can get back at the long list of other jobs so suggesting more complication isn’t something I’ll do! I knew you would ask!!!

Maize has never been a crop that overly interested me for some reason. I’ve just seen too many messers at it over the years that I’m a bit traumatised I’d say.
I love cereals and combinable crops, I like beet and spuds but maize just doesn’t excite me for some reason.

I do appreciate that in hot climates, maize is the absolute business.
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Having grown too much of it in my time, I just don't think it's a crop suited to Ireland. For me the major issue is bare soil for 7 months of the year. Just too much nutrients and carbon been lost, that's ever before one idiot of a tractor driver destroys the place acting the tool
 
Crops said:
:oops: No I didn’t, it’s a simple variety trial. Planting them is my annual task, I just want to get them done asap so I can get back at the long list of other jobs so suggesting more complication isn’t something I’ll do! I knew you would ask!!!

Maize has never been a crop that overly interested me for some reason. I’ve just seen too many messers at it over the years that I’m a bit traumatised I’d say.
I love cereals and combinable crops, I like beet and spuds but maize just doesn’t excite me for some reason.

I do appreciate that in hot climates, maize is the absolute business.
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Sure I knew you wouldn’t.

A neighbor that has a few sucklers plants at 110k. Grows the height of the moon with a tiny cob, but he’s only looking for gutfill, and no other crop would compare for volume. He only grows a few ha before a reseed.
 
Sheebadog said:
Sure I knew you wouldn’t.

A neighbor that has a few sucklers plants at 110k. Grows the height of the moon with a tiny cob, but he’s only looking for gutfill, and no other crop would compare for volume. He only grows a few ha before a reseed.
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I sowed on day with the moore drill, missing calibrated and sowed 60k seeds per ac but in 6" rows. To walk through it, you would hardly know.

If I was still growing maize I would set it in 6" rows. Allot of early light lost at 30" rows in my view
 
Ozzy Scott said:
I sowed on day with the moore drill, missing calibrated and sowed 60k seeds per ac but in 6" rows. To walk through it, you would hardly know.

If I was still growing maize I would set it in 6" rows. Allot of early light lost at 30" rows in my view
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Imho, sunlight is your limitation for maize whereas water is mine. Either way reducing seed rates should compensate for any less than favorable conditions.
 
Deerehunter said:
a lad near me used to get the contractor to set his with the one pass. The crops did fine but he eventually switched to using plastic.
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I was the same, Think I burned allot of the carbon out of the soil as it was bare ground up to 7 months of the year leading to all sorts of problems.
 
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