Great journal.

You have a nice looking clean field there. One difficult thing with agriculture is weed management. Some few questions please 1) Did you use chemical or mechanical means to control the weeds? 2) You spoke about gramoxone application when the plants are already few weeks - How did you achieve this without hurting the plants? I know gramoxone is paraquat and it is non selective herbicides 3) How many seeds did you plant per hole? You spoke about procuring double seeder planter and i can see some plants in double and some single. 4)What plant population were you able to achieve? Appreciate your responses. Thanks

shariff84:
after the application of chemical, I leave for kontagora where I resided.I go back to the farm on 13 August 2019 and here is picture so far

olugbengaomotay:
You have a nice looking clean field there. One difficult thing with agriculture is weed management. Some few questions please 1) Did you use chemical or mechanical means to control the weeds? 2) You spoke about gramoxone application when the plants are already few weeks - How did you achieve this without hurting the plants? I know gramoxone is paraquat and it is non selective herbicides 3) How many seeds did you plant per hole? You spoke about procuring double seeder planter and i can see some plants in double and some single. 4)What plant population were you able to achieve? Appreciate your responses. Thanks

I used both chemical and mechanical weed control. after I planted the maize with two days we applied gramoxone and atrazine powder. at week 4 i decided to give the whole farm for manual weeding at 30k. yes you can use gramoxone to control weeds in any crop if the sprayer is expert. also at week 6 we do gramoxone again,apply urea fertilizer and plant beans. 3-its one seed per hole,where you saw two or three in a hole its a sorghum not maize. 4- the plant population for one hectare is normally between 50-70k stands.

at week 6, I started seeing flowers

Another pic at week 6-7

Pls note,if you want to plan pioneer maize seed go for yellow not white because the yield potential and actual yield of yellow is greater than white

We did gramoxone and planted beans yesterday,iam now back home!

Looks like you have to apply that urea quickly as the impact of nitrogen uptake on yield reduces rapidly once tasseling occurs.

stagger:
Looks like you have to apply that urea quickly as the impact of nitrogen uptake on yield reduces rapidly once tasseling occurs.

we have applied it yesterday.thank u

this evening i visited a friend's farm,here is the picture of his maize below

Good morning please kindly post the pictures of the maize planter more so can the maize planter work on a single plough land?

Liadi2:
Good morning please kindly post the pictures of the maize planter more so can the maize planter work on a single plough land?

we bought about 11 planters in our group,I bought my own from Lagos through someone I know in nairaland. my own is among the best,if not the best.its one seed per hole as far as you will be pushing it small during planting.

Following you closely! The way this country is going now, agriculture is the surest way out of unemployment.

shariff84:
we bought about 11 planters in our group,I bought my own from Lagos through someone I know in nairaland. my own is among the best,if not the best.its one seed per hole as far as you will be pushing it small during planting.

Thanks for your response, my question are the following how many ploughing did you do? 2 Did you arrow your land or can d machines work on a plough land without harrowing?

Thanks for sharing. You said you planted beans on the farm when the maize was already about six weeks and had already formed a canopy like i can see. Will the maize canopy not affect the beans yield?

How do you go about it and why beans and not any other crops like roots like groundnuts? Thanks

shariff84:
I used both chemical and mechanical weed control. after I planted the maize with two days we applied gramoxone and atrazine powder. at week 4 i decided to give the whole farm for manual weeding at 30k. yes you can use gramoxone to control weeds in any crop if the sprayer is expert. also at week 6 we do gramoxone again,apply urea fertilizer and plant beans. 3-its one seed per hole,where you saw two or three in a hole its a sorghum not maize. 4- the plant population for one hectare is normally between 50-70k stands.

olugbengaomotay:

Thanks for sharing. You said you planted beans on the farm when the maize was already about six weeks and had already formed a canopy like i can see. Will the maize canopy not affect the beans yield?

How do you go about it and why beans and not any other crops like roots like groundnuts? Thanks

in the north we mostly plant beans and maize together.the canopy will disturb the beans but small because in one month time we will cut the maize and give beans chance to grow better. also according to some friends of my beans used to great in pioneer maize due to abundant fertilizers applied to the maize,the beans will be getting small-small fertilizer from the maize as his own share.lolz

shariff84:
we bought about 11 planters in our group,I bought my own from Lagos through someone I know in nairaland. my own is among the best,if not the best.its one seed per hole as far as you will be pushing it small during planting.

Please whats the cost of the planter?

Reality11:

Please whats the cost of the planter?

57k for double seeder

I just visited my farm today,the maize performance is great

another pix

shariff84:
another pix

Nice, may God your handwork. Is this the one planted on July 20 or 26?

Thefarmer3:


Nice, may God your handwork. Is this the one planted on July 20 or 26?

this one its the one I planted on 20 july,though there difference is not much.

Happy to see your posts and eager for your updates.

Please can I have your contact so I can ask some questions anytime I have issues?
Thanks. Mine is 081348994zero8

I was in the farm yesterday,the maize performance is impressive, almost all the villagers are talking about the maize.yeah this is their first time of seeing pioneer maize seed planted in their village.here is the picture below.the haverst time is next month.I will update about the actual yield we get per hectare.

shariff84:
I was in the farm yesterday,the maize performance is impressive, almost all the villagers are talking about the maize.yeah this is their first time of seeing pioneer maize seed planted in their village.here is the picture below.the haverst time is next month.I will update about the actual yield we get per hectare.

Did it produce 1 or 2 cobs per plant?

shariff84:
this year me and my friends decided to plant pioneer maize seed,we are many in our group.I will be updating from planting to harvest.I will also give the actual tons each of us get,I personally bought three hectares own at the rate of 37k per one hectare seed.

How do you plan to protect against fulani herdsmen and local petty thieves?

stagger:


Did it produce 1 or 2 cobs per plant?

its one big cobs majority,only few has 2 per plant.

topstone4:


How do you plan to protect against fulani herdsmen and local petty thieves?

we don't have Fulani herdsmen problem here but we have petty thieves but I will put local watchman.

shariff84:
its one big cobs majority,only few has 2 per plant.

Thanks. I will try Pioneer seed next time.

@Shariff84 thank you so very much for this wonderful and concise information you are bringing our way free of charge. You are an example of a selfless Nigerian. I have learnt so much from you. I am a Senior staff with a government agency in Abuja and I love farming with a passion. I leased a hectare of farmland and planted maize this year. I am in the process of harvesting right now. If I had this information before now I know I would have had better yield and consequently greater harvest. Do you know I applied only half bag of fertilizer to the whole farm and I did that only once because I thought that was enough and I was not guided properly. This of course affected my harvest. But with what I am learning now I know by God's grace I will enjoy bumper harvest next farming season. Thank you so much and Keep the information coming.

shariff84:
I was in the farm yesterday,the maize performance is impressive, almost all the villagers are talking about the maize.yeah this is their first time of seeing pioneer maize seed planted in their village.here is the picture below.the haverst time is next month.I will update about the actual yield we get per hectare.

My brother, y not sell it fresh and get you money. I think selling fresh corn is more profitable than dry corn.

Idemujoseph:
My brother, y not sell it fresh and get you money. I think selling fresh corn is more profitable than dry corn.

I wan try am sef this period.