Variety Faith
2024 season review After an extremely wet period, growers were concerned about ground conditions for maize planting. The ground dried quickly, but timely rain helped crop germination. Subsequent rain and low sunlight caused nitrogen deficiency in maize crops, leading to yellowing of plants. Harvest was delayed, with some foraging continuing into early November. Despite challenges, yields were generally good. Key learnings include planting maize by mid-May and selecting early-maturing, high-yielding varieties.
In this booklet you’ll find the selection of maize varieties that we will be running with for the 2025 season, along with some information on growing maize, and considerations to be taken into account before selecting a variety.
We are a non-favourable site, at 350ft and limestone brash, so we need an early maize variety. We’ve grown Faith for the first time this year and it’s produced a really impressive crop, with big strong plants, really good cobs and no signs of eye spot. Faith has shown good early maturity and we strated cutting on Friday 22nd September.
We feel that we have a variety to suit each and every customer’s site and growing conditions, as well as end uses.
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Things to consider with drought becoming more common: Increased organic matter in soils to increase moisture holding capacity.
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Reduced drilling rates to allow plant rooting systems more space.
Drilling to conditions, not to date.
Anthony Butler Crutchley Farms (2023)
BARTHOLOMEWS
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