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Maize maturity is the new risk management

After a run of wildly different seasons, maize variety choice is no longer a straight yield chase and maturity is about protecting harvest timeliness, soil and starch per acre

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
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One principle is to work backwards from the farm's harvest
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One principle is to work backwards from the farm's harvest

Following two wet seasons which have tested travelability and a drought year where soil moisture and high temperatures bit into output, maize growers now have to juggle every outcome at once. Ben Lowe,...

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