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| Did you know? |
| Some Interesting Facts about Maize … |
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| The Lacey Green Maize Maze is made from a crop of forage maize. |
| In this country, forage maize is grown to feed dairy cows over the winter months. |
| It is harvested anytime between the end of September and mid October. |
The whole plant (cobs, leaves and stalk) are chopped up into tiny pieces by a machine called a forage harvester – similar to a combine harvester, but smaller.
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| The result is a highly palatable cattle feed called maize silage. |
| After harvest Lacey Green Maize Maze will be fed to the cows at Stocken Farm! |
| 1 acre of forage maize provides enough maize silage to feed 2 cows for winter. |
| These two cows will produce around 16 tonnes of slurry which is then spread on the land and contains enough nutrients to grow one acre of forage maize! |
| One cow could eat up to 8 tonnes of maize silage in a year. |
| Out of 10,000 items in a typical supermarket, at least 2,500 will use maize in some form during production or processing! |
| Maize products can appear in adhesives, batteries, wallpaper, rugs & carpets, fuel ethanol, soaps & cleaners, hospital drugs, paper plates & cups, shoe polish, plastics, whisky and even the cylinder head in year car engine! |
| Of course, we also eat many maize products; cereal, starch, corn oil, popcorn and crisps to name but a few. |
| A truly fantastic plant! |
