If the undersown grass is sprayed off after 10-15 May, prior to maize being drilled again, maize germination can be challenged by grass taking moisture out of the ground. One year, this resulted ...

The earliest physical evidence for domesticated maize, what some cultures call corn, ... Wild grass became maize crop more than 8,700 years ago. U.S. National Science Foundation.

Maize cobs (5,300 to 1,200 years old), Tehuacan, Mexico(Collections of the R.S. Peabody Museum, Photo: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution) By about 6,000 years ago, people in Mexico had ...

Mutant maize genes can be inserted into switch grasses to increase their viability as a biofuel crop, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The story of maize starts about 9,000 years ago, when people started collecting and consuming a wild grass called teosinte. The plant eventually became modern maize, commonly known as corn or ...

Lighter first and second cuts, along with slow maize germination across the north west, means farmers should be looking to ...

What Ancient Maize Can Tell Us About Thousands of Years of Civilization in America ... dried turkey cadavers, mammal bones, broken crockery, a brush made from grass, incense pipes, stones for ...

RELATIVES Corn, or maize, descended from a Mexican grass called teosinte. Credit... John Doebley. By Sean B. Carroll. May 24, 2010; It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States.

Wide variability in maize, grass and cereal crops, due to this season’s turbulent weather, could put extra pressure on silage strategies on dairy farms this winter, a forage expert is predicting.

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For the past six years, David Pursey has undersown maize with Italian ryegrass to protect against soil erosion and provide a post-lambing spring bite for. Sign in. LATEST. LATEST.