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  2. Maize - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a good harvest was traditionally predicted if the maize was "knee-high by the Fourth of July", although modern hybrids generally exceed this growth rate. Maize used for silage is harvested while the plant is green and the fruit immature. Sweet corn is harvested in the "milk stage", after pollination but before starch has ...

  3. Maize milling - Wikipedia

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    Following this process, milling can commence and may take several forms: The roller mill may be a single roller mill, double roller mill or pneumatic roller mill. In a complete maize milling plant, there are several roller mills that work together, they have different functions, the first mill mainly peeling the maize skin, the second and third will grind the maize into granular sizes, and ...

  4. Sowing - Wikipedia

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    Among the major field crops, oats, wheat, and rye are sown, grasses and legumes are seeded and maize and soybeans are planted. In planting, wider rows (generally 75 cm (30 in) or more) are used, and the intent is to have precise; even spacing between individual seeds in the row, various mechanisms have been devised to count out individual seeds at exact intervals.

  5. Crop desiccation - Wikipedia

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    Desiccated potato plants prior to harvest. Pre-harvest crop desiccation is the application of an agent to a crop just before harvest to kill the leaves and/or plants so that the crop dries out from environmental conditions, or "dry-down", more quickly and evenly.

  6. Brace roots - Wikipedia

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    Two types of brace roots as shown in maize. Roots may develop from the embryo (contained in a seed) or post-embryonically (after germination). [1] In young plants, root functions such as anchorage and resource acquisition (finding and taking up water and nutrients) are carried out by embryonic roots.

  7. Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    The protein from maize is further enhanced by protein contributions from beans and pumpkin seeds, while pumpkin flesh provides large amounts of vitamin A; with the Three Sisters, farmers harvest about the same amount of energy as from maize monoculture, but get more protein yield from the inter-planted bean and pumpkin. Mt.

  8. Cereal growth staging scales - Wikipedia

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    Tillers formed; leaves often twisted spirally. Main shoot and six tillers. In some varieties of winter wheat, plant may be "creeping," or prostrate. 4: Beginning of the erection of the pseudo-stem; leaf sheaths beginning to lengthen. 5: Pseudo-stem (formed by sheaths of leaves) strongly erected. Stem Extension 6: First node of stem visible at ...

  9. Harvest - Wikipedia

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    Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulses for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper. [2] On smaller farms with minimal mechanization, harvesting is the most labor-intensive activity of the growing season. On large mechanized farms, harvesting uses farm machinery, such as the combine harvester. Automation has increased the ...

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