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How smart variety choice is keeping maize in the rotation

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

Angela Calvert
Head of Livestock, Shows and Sales
clock 鈥� 6 min read
Howard Williams grows 182 hectares of maize on his two farms north of London, for his anaerobic digestion plant and also for forage
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Howard Williams grows 182 hectares of maize on his two farms north of London, for his anaerobic digestion plant and also for forage

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 When the Covid pandemic...

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