Making more maize with less moisture

Marian Macdonald
December 9 2019 - 6:00am
MAIZE MAKER: Wade Theodore, Jaryd Leblanc, Wayne Bowden and Hayden Bowden of Bowden's Agricultural Contracting with the strip till planter.
MAIZE MAKER: Wade Theodore, Jaryd Leblanc, Wayne Bowden and Hayden Bowden of Bowden's Agricultural Contracting with the strip till planter.

An innovative hybrid machine designed by Bowden's Agricultural Contracting, Yarram, could conserve the equivalent of 50 millimetres of water, making maize in dryland, medium-rainfall areas viable or reducing irrigation use without long fallow periods.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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