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Maize planting onset was heavily affected by this year epilithic rainfall pattern, but thanks to heavens the rain is improving.

So I'm going to document my journey here, hope you guys will enjoy it!



I'm yours Markus from Borno state Nigeria.

Forgive me for not taking pics and video when the farmland is been plowed, but I've snapped some after. Due to high cost of tractor hire, we resort to using Keke NAPEP to plough.

Fig.1 Was the after pic of the farm after it's been worked.
You can see the Keke driving out of the farm before I came back from other farm.

I'll try my best to update you guys as frequent as I can.
Thanks yours faithful maize grower Markus.

Ciao!

Wishing you best of lucks, keep updating!

JealousCobra:
Wishing you best of lucks, keep updating!

Thanks boss

Sorry guys for me abandoning the thread, I've leave home to tend to some of my farms far from home with little to no GSM signals. Thats why I couldn't updated the thread as rain season advance.

How do you plough with keke, pls dm me with full explaination or post here

Hi fellas, so as the season advance so is the farming activities.
The farmland patch has been sown and it has germinated.
On the day July 7th, I went to spray Nicosulfuron (systematic selective herbicide for maize) to finished up the remaining weeds that the weedkiller I used didn't tackled well.

July 13th 6 days after I applied Nicosulfuron Lipton as we called it, I went to scout the patch, these are some pics I brought from the farm.

July 13th from different angle, there's termitaria on the farm patch, so the maize seedling from the side emerge with more vigour.

July 24th went for fast paparazzi, the maize turn into hottest cele in the town.

Hey pals, sorry for the delay in updating the thread, I've been super busy these days, even though the farm isn't far from my house (1km) but couldn't make it there due to tight work schedules.

Due to high cost of farm inputs; Labor wa, agrochemicals, fertilizer etc... and no money in farm produce; imagine a bag of maize, (100kg) at 30k and yet a bag of premium NPK fertilizer goes for 75k! So one have to sell like 3 bags of maize before you can get 1 bag of fertiliser and a sachet of Atrazine!
A bottle of miafuron (Nicosulfuron) 8k, Atrazine 15k! For that, I nominate the year 2025 as the worst of the worst for every farmer in Nigeria.

It's what has even dissipate my steam, makes me give less F about some of the farms.
But man have to man up cause Las las, na who give up Bleep up push and see how far we can go.

So since

July 24th

I didn't even veer through the route to the farm, untill August 26, to God be the glory the maize crops is good and are at tassel stage.
I didn't used any fertilizer but manure and wood ash I've applied before ploughing.

More pics

Bonus pic; A Corn face Farmer
I know I looked shabby, but this shabbily looking corn-face farmer was going through load of Shit, or can I say a lot of shit is passing through me;
TRAGEDY
Thief broke into my store, 14 bags of maize Otilo! dry maize performance was poor at grain market (28k a bag) my main farms needs fertilizers and not enough money to buy as required. I've budgeted to apply 7 bags of fertiliser, but end up with 4 bags. The other farms are water logged, due to excessive rainfall. Some patches are failing.

We need your prayers here wlh, cause it's hellish for all Middle to small scale farmers

It is a cyclical thing

The tide will soon turn. Farmers had premium prices in the last season

FarmerPro:
We need your prayers here wlh, cause it's hellish for all Middle to small scale farmers