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Eliminating undesirable plants: Carefully examine your maize seed crop as it grows. You may find plants that look very different or flower much earlier or later than most other plants in the field. These plants are called off-types and they should be removed—a process known as roguing—before pollen shedding starts. Most farmers do . . . → Read More: Quality Control In Maize Seed Production Considerations for breeder and foundation seed multiplication The half-sib method is commonly used to produce breeder and foundation seeds of maize. With this method, rows are arbitrarily designated as males and females in a ratio of 1 male to 2–4 female rows just before flowering. All plants in the female rows are de-tasseled. . . . → Read More: Management Of A Seed Crop Production Field For Maize Breeding programs are continuously developing new maize varieties. These are often higher yielding than the older varieties or farmers’ varieties, and may have other value added traits, such as early maturity or better disease resistance. To benefit from a new, improved variety, farmers should first obtain seeds. Seed production should be done in a . . . → Read More: Recommended Seed Crop Production Practices For Maize Maize Maize: For maize, cost of inputs will be around $2,000/ha to grow and harvest the crop as silage, with labour and feeding out costs to be added. If you decide to plant maize for silage, don’t cut corners. Good weed and African Black Beetle control are essential, as is ridging on . . . → Read More: Planting And Cutting Information Under Irrigation For Summer Forage Crops On Dairy Farms Over recent years maize has been successfully grown in north Queensland for grain and silage. Maize has a number of features that make it well suited to north Queensland, including: high rainfall requirement cheap weed control options few pest and disease problems can tolerate rain at harvest a growing market in the . . . → Read More: Growing Maize in the Coastal Wet Tropics Planting times In southern Queensland, mid-September to mid-October is the premium time. December provides another suitable opportunity, especially for dryland crops. In Moreton, maize is often successfully planted as early as mid- August. Latest plantings in these areas would occur in early to mid-January, due to likelihood of disease development in late summer/autumn. A . . . → Read More: Planting Maize |
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