Meppel Nu

· 14 Sep 2021

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#Mais 😍 Corn or corn is a grain native to Central America and belongs to the grasses family. The plant was domesticated by the indigenous peoples of southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Corn is a direct domestication of the subspecies Zea mays subsp. parviglumis. #Bloeiwijze : Maize the female and male flowers are separated, but they are on the same plant. At the top of the plant, the plume contains the male flowers. About halfway through the plant, there are one or more flasks in the armpits of the leaves, consisting of the female flowers. There are many types of Corn: a.o. Corn, Sugar Corn, Corn.
As far as cutting corn is concerned: In #Nederland more than 200,000 hectares of cut maize are cultivated in agriculture, more than 220,000 ha in Belgium, mainly used as cattle feed in cattle farming. Because the climate is actually too cool for corn, the grains don't get ripe here. However, early to very early varieties have been developed, which can be used to grow grain maize. As a rule, harvesting is between mid-September and mid-October, if the grain is hard pastry. A crop almost completely frozen by night frosts should not be waited too long to harvest. In general, the entire crop is chopped with leaf, stem and flasks with a corn chopper and sillowed. However, corn can also be in the form of grain maize, spindle wet grain corn (CCM) = Corn Cob Mix) zowel voor varkens als voor rundvee en voor maïskolvensilage (MKS) voor rundvee geoogst worden.