Maize – an Alternative to Winter Crops
France’s Maize Seed Production news
Maize – an Alternative to Winter Crops
Recent weather conditions have impacted winter rapeseed and cereal crop establishment, compelling growers to turn to spring crops. Included among their options of is maize – a plant that can present many benefits in the proper environment.
Read moreWorld maize prices remain under pressure
Maize areas are expected up or have already increased in the main exporting countries, as well as in the EU, in 2019/20. Certain factors may cause price volatility but world maize use remains dynamic.
Read moreEU seed observatory: stocks trend down
The F.N.P.S.M.S (the French National Federation of Maize and Sorghum Seed Production) has published its observatory report on maize seed stocks (seed bag numbers). According to this data, the stock decline is confirmed at the end of the 2019 marketing year, against the background of a dynamic EU maize market. Furthermore, in the light of the challenging 2019 production conditions and ongoing market developments, a new stock decrease may be expected at the end of June 2020.
Read moreSilage maize : FNPSMS on tour for promotion
As an organisation that is particularly committed to promoting the maize plant, the FNPSMS has organised several events dedicated to this plant, throughout Eastern Europe. A quick glance at this year’s activities, below :
Read moreMaize and its high-quality genetics: a true potential for Kazakhstan
A delegation of Kazakh agriculture decision-makers visited France this past September. The event offered an opportunity for the FNPSMS – the French interprofessional organisation of maize and sorghum seed production – to be received by the Kazakh Embassy and to meet several important officials, particularly the Kazakh Vice Minister for Agriculture, H.E. the Ambassador of Kazakhstan, and the Head of the country’s agronomic research centre.
Read moreEuropean prices still under pressure
November saw a renewed fall of world prices at the CBOT. Despite delays and sometimes difficult weather, the US harvest is making progress and production has not been estimated down significantly by the USDA for the time being
Read moreMarkets: European Corn Area Rebounds in 2019, While Seed Stocks Go Down
An update of our monitoring centre indicates that the EU maize seed sales from the 2019 plantings are up 2,7 percent.
Read moreFrance Strengthens Its European Leadership in Maize Seed Production
With 68 200 hectares and 46 percent of Europe’s maize production programme, France strengthens its European leadership in maize seed production.
Read moreISF – First Success for the FNPSMS
The FNPSMS took part in an ISF (International Seed Federation) Congress, which took place in Nice between June 3 and June 5, 2019 and was attended by 1700 participants.
Read moreNews ARVALIS : RECORD FLOWERING DATES OF YOUR FEED MAIZE TO OPTIMISE SILAGE QUALITY
Maize flowering is not necessarily what we think it is. It is not male flowering, which consists in tassel forming at the uppermost tip of the plant (a phenomenon that is visible from the field edge), but female flowering, which consists in silking – silk forming at the tip of the ears, at the height of the crop’s development.
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