Displaying items by tag: maize
Getting the most out of silage
Pioneer nutritionist, Dr Bill Mahanna, recently wrote his 52nd and final column for Feedstuffs, a pre-eminent USA feed and feed industry magazine.
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Maize planting down as lower payout bites
Plantings of one the dairy industry's most popular supplements is way down right across the country.
Crop options for late planting
The grass has never really fired this spring and as I travel around the country it appears many farmers will have little surplus for silage.
Maize planter offers 15% yield increases
With developments in forage maize growing over the last decade – genetics to improve yields, pest resistance and reducing days to maturity – the arrival of a new planting concept looks to give maize growers another option.
Maize silage yields high and growing
Since the introduction of Pioneer's New Zealand silage trial programme in 1991, silage yields have increased by an average of 310 kgDM/ha/year.
Getting more from chopped maize
Maize silage has long been critical to livestock farmers' conservation choice for winter feed, so it's no surprise to see harvester manufacturers looking at new ways to make the crop more productive.
Feeding supplements in a low payout year
The challenging milk payout will have many farmers scrutinising budgets for ways to reduce spending.
The true cost of home-grown maize silage
The latest Pioneer brand ‘Maize for Silage 2015-16’ catalogue gives average estimated growing costs for maize silage planted in high fertility or low fertility paddocks (Table 1).
Growing maize under film
One of the biggest recent advances in maize agronomy has been the growing of maize crops under film using the SAMCO System.