National title to record Gisborne maize crop

Poverty Bay grower Brian Amor is the national winner of the 2014 Pioneer brand seeds Maize for Grain Yield Competition with a yield of 21.16 tonnes per hectare.



Good season
“It’s a great example of what can be achieved with a high-yielding hybrid, excellent crop management techniques and a good growing season in Poverty Bay,” says Barry, who visited the trial as part of Pioneer’s annual inspection of research trials in March.

“It clearly was a crop that had been planted on time with excellent weed control and top fertility. Fertility is considered very important and is partly supplied by the application of chicken manure during the winter period.”

The weather wasn’t so kind in other districts, with a lack of rainfall throughout the North Island. But despite climatic challenges, the competition’s winning yields were generally high.

Regional winners for the 2014 season are:

Bay of Plenty: Dovaston Family Trust with a Pioneer brand P1253 yield of 19.25 t/ha.

Auckland Province and North: Shawn and Tracey Nichols, Northern Wairoa Flax Company, with a Pioneer brand P0021 yield of 17.19 t/ha.

Waikato: Lloyd Farms Ltd with a Pioneer brand P0891 yield of 18.51 t/ha.

Manawatu Rangitikei: Dennis Nitschke with a Pioneer brand P0021 yield of 18.92 t/ha.


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