by Bright Maize Staff | Mar 2, 2022 | blog
The third and final installment in our series Maize Growing: the Core Skills looks at the principles behind harvesting the crop for silage. Having cultivated the healthiest possible yield, you will now want to turn that into the best possible end product. ...
by Bright Maize Staff | Jan 26, 2022 | blog
As UK farmers adapt to post-Brexit trade deals with the EU and others, it seems that supply disruptions – for the most part at least – have been navigated with relative success: the Northern Ireland Protocol, on the other hand, continues to be problematic. Here,...
by Bright Maize Staff | Dec 20, 2021 | blog
It’s the time of year for reviewing past progress – and for planning ahead. Farmers will be looking to learn from this year’s harvest in order to optimise the next. Did performance match expectation? How did the cold, wet start to 2021 affect drilling plans? Was...
by Bright Maize Staff | Nov 23, 2021 | blog
Bright Maize is among those sponsoring The Carbon Food Conference in London this week. Instigated by Carmarthenshire dairy farmer Sion Davies, we look at the speakers and the topics on the agenda As net zero targets loom ever larger, more and more of us are reflecting...
by David Edwards | Sep 15, 2021 | blog
Following on from our last blog, we look at the specific challenges of achieving net zero in agriculture by 2050… The impact of agriculture on the environment is both significant – in the UK it accounts for about 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions...
