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Tuesday 3 November 2009

Maize under plastic. Trial at Sticker, St Austell, part 2

LG 3193 in top and Nescio in bottom picture, alongside Justina. Pictures taken 3rd July. Interesting to see how nutrient deficiencies are now starting to appear in the crop (even though the fields were lagged with FYM and slurry pre drilling), because of the inability to put placement ferliser down when the plastic is being laid. With maize not being a scavenger of nutrients, this is a common shortcoming with resultant loss of productivity and yield, even though the added cost is over £100/ac compared to ordinary forage maize.


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