Seed Maize Irrigation: Paying Attention Every Step of the Way
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Seed Maize Irrigation: Paying Attention Every Step of the Way
Seed Maize Irrigation: Paying Attention Every Step of the Way The French production sector offers a wide variety of growing conditions for seed maize, which is generally grown on irrigated land. Producers have a good command of the irrigation methods. However, the parental lines’ inherent sensitivity to water stress and the specific production itinerary of seed maize are factors that one must consider in order to get the optimum yield and required seed quality. Seed Maize Irrigation: Paying Attention Every Step of the Way (titre) Although the general make-up of maize hybrid crops in terms of water-stress exposure is not much different from that of their parental lines, each development stage presents specific characteristics that influence the plant’s behaviour ...
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The 2020/21 Production Campaign Starts Well for Maize Crops
The 2020/21 Production Campaign Starts off Well for Maize Crops (titre) While the beginning of spring was challenging at times, growth conditions are relatively favourable to maize crops in most of the major production regions. In Brazil, late-stage crop conditions for safrinha maize (second harvest, mostly destined for export) have been particularly good in Mato Grosso, the country’s main production state, which may offset yield reductions in the southern states caused by prolonged drought in first-quarter 2020. In the EU,...
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Maize – Leading Crop in the 2020 European Rotations
Maize, Leading Crop in the 2020 European Rotations. Seed Production Programme up for 2021 Plantings Maize has confirmed once again as a top choice with the European producers during the 2020 plantings. Its areas have increased in most European countries, both for grain and feed. EU-level maize areas should stand at 15,1 million hectares this year (up 2 percent). The trend is due to the difficult plantings in the autumn/winter of 2019. Thus grain maize has become an alternative to rapeseed in its own right, as well as to straw cereals, in several countries. Feed maize is also trending up, countering feed deficits in many countries, after several years of drought-stricken harvests. Planting conditions were dry in...
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Coronavirus Pandemic Drives Maize Prices down
A significant share of the U.S. maize production goes to the ethanol industry. However, ethanol prices are closely linked to petrol prices, which are currently plummeting. The sharp decline of fuel demand brought about by the Covid-19 has therefore resulted in a fall of maize prices.
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Maize Production Watch
At the end of March, France’s 2020 maize production programme was estimated up 16 percent compared to the previous year. The increase is also expected in the main EU countries competing on the maize market, as well as in the non-EU member countries, where the trend is clearly upwards. See the detailed estimates.
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Promoting Maize and Sorghum Seeds in Europe
A large number of Ukrainian and Kazakh ag professionals have participated in recent agriculture trade shows, where the FNPSMS has carried out promotion activities regarding European seed genetics.
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Maize: Short Cycle, but Huge Potential
Agriculture owes half of its progress to practices developed by the farmers themselves, but also to their variety choices. The crop’s huge potential, as enabled by the genetic progress, originates in the specific characteristics of maize, a plant with a particularly efficient biochemical system.
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Maize and sorghum european promotion
In 2020, the F.N.P.S.M.S continues to promote maize and sorghum plants to European agricultural professionals.
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Spring Plantings Up: Maize and Its Attractiveness to the European Farmers
Despite the uncertain world price context, maize planting intentions are clearly up in the spring of 2020 compared to one year ago. The innovative hybrids and their inherent genetic progress make maize a competitive option for the farmers, as plantings encountered significant difficulties last winter.
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REGION-ADAPTED EARLINESS TRAITS
Corn hybrid research has helped to widen the range of earliness options and improve plant performance. Thus early corn hybrids have become more and more productive and adapted to every region.
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