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Maize silage is a critical part of the beef ration at Shoby Priory Agriculture in Leicestershire, where close to 1,000 cattle are finished annually

After a run of wildly different seasons, maize variety choice is no longer a straight yield chase and maturity is about protecting harvest timeliness, soil and starch per acre

First grown as an emergency biogas feedstock, maize has held its place in the rotation on one Hertfordshire arable farm despite the challenge of growing on very different soil types

Farming on the northern margins of the North Wessex Downs, Hamish McIntosh has always tried to maximise the contribution maize makes to his milking ration

The 2025 season might not have been the kindest for growing forage maize, but it has offered some potentially valuable lessons

The first maize silage analysis results for 2025 show the impact of the atypical growing season

There is more momentum for a new multiple-use maize variety following three consecutive years of positive trial results

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys 51AVÊÓƵin the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Applications for non-organic forage usage owing to 'catastrophic circumstances' can be put to Defra