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Came across this machine while on holiday in Brittany, France. It was amazing (excuse pun) to see the speed and ferocity of these machines at full pelt.They manage to clear a 20 acre field in no time. It was also something else to confront them on the small country lanes around La Gacilly as they travelled from farm to farm. I've added a few shots below to give an idea of how they work with them.
Pratima Baral (right) CIMMYT researcher demonstrates the use of a farming app in the field with Sita Kumari (center), farmer, and her friend Nilam (left). The technology assists farmers in remote areas, who would otherwise have limited access to information on market prices and services. Photo by C. De Bode/CGIAR
I came across this late harvested maize field today (cut for seed rather than feed) which was full of Woodpigeon. A beautiful sight when they all took to the air. The birds were extremely skittish so it wasn't possible to get as close as I would have liked, rather a grey day so not much colour in these images.
Maize ears from CIMMYT's collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of farmer landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.
Spotted on the streets of Shenzhen, China at a hawker stall, maize is a cereal grain which originates from the American continents that spread to the rest of the world when the Europeans reached America in the 15th century. The word maize originates from the Spanish form of the Arawak Native American term for the plant. Today it is commonly referred to as corn with some varieties of maize can grown to more than 7 meters.
This variety of maize grows in China and is known as a bicolour maize named as ‘Sugar and Gold’ on account of its red tinge. This variety is of the highest quality, takes 67 days to harvest and each ear of corn grows to between 6.5” and 10” in length.
Not the usual colors when using the above words (sorry U of M), but that's all I could come up with for a title.
Winter has returned today for a couple of days...cold and snowy again.
Forage maize harvesting near Aghalee. A well ripened crop but not as high as normal due to poor summer weather. Ground in good shape all the same.
This is a cornfield I passed while out on an adventure. The sun was just coming up and so I stopped and shot this out of my car window.
A young girl gets a valuable dose of vitamin A by eating this nutritious orange maize. Vitamin A deficiency blinds up to half a million children annually and increases risk of death from disease. By consuming vitamin A maize, children could potentially get up to 50% of their daily vitamin A needs.
©IFPRI/Eliab Simpungwe (HarvestPlus)
Maize or corn crop growing locally...now above head height in a lot of places. I like the textures in the landscape though...
Photos taken in Son La province in the northwestern region of Vietnam during the field visit for maize of ILRI project coordinators for the CCAFS-funded Pestforecast project or ‘Surveillance and and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos’ (photo credit: ILRI/Hung Nguyen).
Feed the Future projects including USAID-FinGAP work to boost the livelihoods of rice, maize, and soy smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. USAID/Ghana
Photos taken in Son La province in the northwestern region of Vietnam during the field visit for maize of ILRI project coordinators for the CCAFS-funded Pestforecast project or ‘Surveillance and and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos’ (photo credit: ILRI/Hung Nguyen).
Maize near Villavicencio, on the border of Colombia's eastern plains, or Llanos.
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Unlike white maize varieties, vitamin A maize is rich in beta-carotene, giving it a distinctive orange color. It could potentially provide 50% of daily vitamin A needs.
Photo credit: Joslin Isaacson (HarvestPlus)