Gloucestershire is the driest county in the West, with less rainfall then Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol, Met Office ...

Cost of growing maize under film It costs about £259/ha (£105/acre) more to establish maize under film. Additional costs are made up of the film, which costs about £232/ha (£94/acre), and ...

Maize has been grown in the UK for about 40 years, but only 1-2% of UK maize is grown in Scotland, says Mr Lowe, but he anticipates this will increase as farmers in Scotland look at input costs and to ...

An area equivalent to roughly half the size of Greater London is now being used across England to grow maize to produce biogas, which experts warning is harming the environment ...

A Zimbabwean who moved to the UK 14 years ago and missed white maize - his country's staple crop - so much he began growing it in a field near London, has become one of Britain's most successful small ...

A maize scheme focuses on the cow rather than the crop. Mike Bridgen talks to Shaun Sowray who has benefited from taking part. A NORTH Yorkshire farm is among a select group of dairy farms ...

Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 May, 2004, 12:54 GMT 13:54 UK E-mail this to a friend ... GM maize growing 'needs review' By Richard Black BBC science correspondent Maize (corn) production dominates US ...

FARMERS in southern England are increasingly growing maize as a feedstock for anaerobic digester power plants. Somerset grower Nick Bragg recently hosted a Syngenta Maize Agronomy workshop where he ...

GROWING maize above Whitby was a bold step. But with careful management, it paid off for Carl Smith in 2009 and he will be trying it again this year, using the same modern early-maturing variety.

THE popularity of maize growing in Northern Ireland is now quite evident. THE popularity of maize growing in Northern Ireland is now quite evident. "This year the area of forage maize has ...